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Links 9/9/2021

After a Long, Hard Summer, Southern Europe’s Long Awaited Tourism Recovery Remains Largely Elusive

Global travel is still far from returning to anything like the conditions that existed prior to the pandemic — at least for non-essential travellers.

Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies

Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.

With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020

The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2021

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Waste Watch: New EPA Reports Document Chemical and Plastics Contamination in Compost

In two August reports documenting the presence of PFAS and plastics contaminants in compost, the EPA tags food waste as the source.

Links 9/8/2021

A Climate Disaster Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes—And Politicians Still Refuse to Take Action

Tropical storm Ida reminds us how little U.S. politicians have done to address climate change since Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005.

US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise

The US military-industrial complex will promote remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security.

The Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US

The professional-managerial class looks to be igoring Sun Tsu’s warning: “Tactics without strategy is the noise before the defeat.”

Links 9/7/2021

As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It

The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication.

The Two Satans of Afghanistan – And Jimmy Carter’s Lips Are Sealed

How the Carter Administration nudged the USSR into its Afghanistan mire.

Red List: More than a Quarter of Species Worldwide Face Extinction; Meanwhile, a Local NYC Group Protects Piping Plovers

Political and scientific leaders meet in Marseille to debate the biodiversity crisis; meanwhile closer to home, a NYC volunteer group moves to help protect nesting piping plovers.