COURSE-RELATED LINKS TO NEWS, etc.

Guys/Folks/People:

The links below take you to course-related news material. Keeping up with the news via sites such as the www.BBC.com is a requirement in this course. Reminder: the more you feed your brain with knowledge the better it is for your brain as it matures in this second and final stage of its development--teens to mid-twenties--that most of you are now undergoing. (Read article available here  to see what I mean.)


Latest links

A

Documentaries and films streaming available via UB libraries here:
  1. http://buffalo.kanopystreaming.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/ 
  2. http://digitalcampus.swankmp.net.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/buffalo304245/#/browse

B

  1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio  (BBC Radio on the Internet)
  2. http://www.worldatlas.com/ (World Data)
  3. *https://youtu.be/1VmMqRUCRFE (History of the World in Two Hours)

C

  1. *Deep History: Human Origins
  2. *World History: History of Paper
  3. *Deep History: The Rosetta Mission
  4. *Music and Deep History: Vangelis and the Rosetta Mission
  5. NASA live stream--Earthview from International Space Station
  6. A View Inside of the International Space Station (by Sunita "Suni" Williams, while as Commander of the Station)
  7. Voyager and the Golden Record  (NPR)
  8. The Golden Record (Contents) NASA/JPL

D

  1. *Guns in the U.S.--Guns-related Deaths: Data
  2. U.S. Right-Wing Extremism 
  3. Report on Right-Wing Extremism
  4. *U.S. Mass Shootings: Mother Jones Database
  5. * White Extremist Terrorism: Quebec Mosque Attack: Student Charged
  6. White Extremist Terrorism: (and the power of forgiveness)
  7. Class Warfare: The Wealthy Funding White Right-Wing Extremism (Fresh Air)
  8. White Extremist Terrorism--New York City  (Here & Now)
  9. *Eugenics, Forced Sterilization and the U.S. Supreme Court (Fresh Air)
  10. Terrorism versus Murders in the U.S. Playing the Muslim Card

E

  1. Alienation: Opiod Addiction in the U.S.
  2. Bringing Back Corruption: Helping Wall Street fight Main Street (I)
  3. Bringing Back Corruption: Helping Wall Street Fight Main Street (II)
  4. Corruption on Wall Street: Insider Trading
  5. Profits versus Clean Water (Coal mining)
  6. The Melting of the Ice Caps--A Disaster in the Making

F

  1. *Capitalism at Work: The U.S. Trade Deficit
  2. The New Face of U.S. Unemployment 
  3. Income inequality and Domestic Politics
  4. Income Inequality: China versus the United States
  5. Capitalism and the Future of Jobs
  6. Capitalism and the Future of Work
  7. Predatory Capitalism versus Socially Responsible Capitalism: Universal Basic Income
  8. *The Continuing Assaults on Unions 
  9. *Cotton Production and Forced Labor
  10. Working Class Anti-Unionism
  11. Not Saving for Retirement
  12. https://howmuch.net
  13. Interesting facts about U.S. currency
  14. *Graveyard of Military Planes
  15. Cutting Taxes for the Rich while Imposing it on the Rest of Us
  16. Right to Work Laws = Right to Exploit Laws (Smell the Coffee!)
  17. INTEL cuts prices on its CPUs in anticipation of Ryzen (Capitalism, Competition, and Class Warfare) 
  18. Corporations versus Small Businesses
  19. Immigration and Employment in the U.S.: Facts versus Myths
  20. Looking for Workers in Agriculture
  21. Trumpism and the Economy
  22. Do you Have an Idea to Help Fix the World?
  23. The Politics of U.S. Foreign Aid
  24. Middle-Aged Whites and Rising Mortality
  25. Life Expectancy: Canada versus the U.S.
  26. Class Warfare: Assaulting Internet Privacy of Consumers
  27. Website for Economic Data 
  28. How Class Works  
  29. The Paradise Papers (The Panama Papers Redux?) 

G

  1. *South Africa: Violence in Parliament
  2. *Economy, Race, and Zimbabwe
  3. *South Africa's Ethnicist Violence Reappears
  4. *South Africa: Ethnicist Violence against Immigrants
  5. *The Killing Fields of Srebrenica
  6. *Srebrenica: How the West failed this safe haven
  7. Peacekeepers Part 1  Peacekeepers Part 2
  8. Hotel Rwanda
  9. Rwandan Genocide-I
  10. Rwandan Genocide-II
  11. Darfur Genocidal Terror-I
  12. Darfur Genocidal Terror-II
  13. South Sudan Terror-I
  14. South Sudan Terror-II
  15. Palestine-1
  16. Palestine-2     
  17. The Struggle in Yemen and "Blowback"-I
  18. The Struggle in Yemen and "Blowback"-II
  19. Afghanistan and the Unending War (On Point podcast)

H

  1. *Who Does the U.S. Travel Ban Affect?
  2. *Syrian Conflict: Thousands Summarily Hanged
  3. *Ultra-conservatism and the decline of democracy around the world 
  4. The Roots of Islamophobia
  5. https://www.marchforscience.com
  6. Barbarism and the Right-Wing Vision of a New United States  (Objectifying subjective interests)
  7. HBCU's and Trump: Symbolism over Substance
  8. The Southern Strategy, Race, and "Trumpism
  9. Survey: class, racism, and the U.S. election  (make sure you also see the video embedded in this item)
  10. Theorizing the Media
  11. Facts about Immigrants in the U.S.
 

I

  1. Cycle of Injustice in New York 
  2. Proliferation of U.S. Hate Groups 
  3. The Supreme Court and Class Warfare
  4. Doctor's Earnings and Race
  5. White Supremacist Tries to Make Amends
  6. U.S. Supreme Court: Fall 2017 Cases 
    

J

  1. The Political Art of Dodging Questions (media literacy)
  2. FREE State of Jones
  3. FREE State of Jones: Historical Background
  4. Belle: Image of Painting
  5. BELLE: Featurette-I
  6. BELLE: Featurette-II
  7. BELLE: The Director-I
  8. BELLE: The Director-TED talk
  9. BELLE: Trailer
  10. LION: Talk at Google
  11. LION: Saroo and Sue Brierley Discuss the Film "Lion"
  12. LION: Saroo Brierley - Zeitgeist Americas 2013
  13. A UNITED KINGDOM: Meeting with Tshekedi' Clip
  14. A UNITED KINGDOM: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
  15. A UNITED KINGDOM: Trailer
  16. VICEROY'S HOUSE: Director's Message 
  17. VICEROY'S HOUSE: Synopsis
  18. VICEROY'S HOUSE official trailer  
  19. VICEROY'S HOUSE: 'Engagement Party Dance' Clip
  20. VICEROY'S HOUSE | Reaction | Ginger & Achara
  21. GANDHI-Film Trailer
  22. GANDHI-Film Clip-1
  23. GANDHI-Film Clip 2
  24. GANDHI-Film Clip-3
  25. GANDHI-Film Clip-4
  26. THE PIANIST: Trailer
  27. SCHINDLER'S LIST-Film Clip-1
  28. SCHINDLER'S LIST-Film Clip-2
  29. SCHINDLER'S LIST-10 facts about the film
  30. HACKSAW RIDGE-Trailer
  31. HACKSAW RIDGE-Film Clip-1
  32. HACKSAW RIDGE-Film Clip-2
  33. Desmond Doss-Funeral
  34. Muhammed Ali, the Draft, and the U.S. Supreme Court
  35. The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history
  36. Why Korea Split Into North and South Korea
  37. Syria's war: Who is fighting and why [Updated]

K

  1. Child Labor Abuse in Israel
  2. Abuse of Female Migrant Labor in the Middle East
  3. Migrant Worker Abuse in the Middle East
  4. Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand
  5. Slave Labor and the Seafood Industry in Asia
  6. Immigration and Employment in the U.S.: Facts versus Myths
  7. How-did-we-get-to-11-million-unauthorized-immigrants
  8. Child Labor and Tobacco Farming in the U.S.
  9. Child Labor in U.S. Agriculture  (What is YOUR excuse?) 
  10. Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Workplace (Agriculture)
  11. Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Workplace (Nightshift)
  12. Child Immigrants
  13. Eating Out: The Human Costs of Cheap Labor in U.S. Restaurants
  14. Identity: Black Native Americans
  15. About immigrants in the U.S.: Some Ignorant and Confused Perspectives from:
    1. an African American
    2. a Latino
    3. a Native American
    4. a Muslim 
  16. Immigrants: An Alternative Native American Perspective
  17. Trump on Native Americans: Its Unfair that they Have Privileges
  18. Illegal Irish Immigrants
  19. Trump Budget: Make the U.S. Great Again-I
  20. Trump Budget: Make the U.S. Great Again-II
  21. Trump Budget: Make the U.S. Great Again-III
  22. Trump Budget: Left, Right, and Center (podcast)
  23. War on Science and a Safe Environment
  24. The Economist Warns about the Serious Dangers Posed by Trump's Irrational Economics
  25. Residential Segregation: the Color of Law (podcast)
  26. Fixing Racial Inequities in the Workplace  
 

L

  1. Sexual Harassment in the Virtual World
  2. Race, Gender, Marginality, and Historical Amnesia
  3. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace-I
  4. Conservative Women and the Male Gaze 
  5. Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
  6. Deaths from Child Abuse in the U.S.
  7. Patriarchy at Work (BBC interview interruption)
  8. Faarrow: Music and Politics
  9. Marillion: Script for a Jester's Tear  Lyrics
  10. Death During Childbirth: the U.S. Story
  11. Intersectionality in the Real World: Becoming Ms. Burton  (radio program)   
     

M

  1. *Going to School: So, What is YOUR Excuse?     
  2. U2: The Cold War, Music and Politics--30th Anniversary of "Joshua Tree"  Pride... <-- Lyrics
  3. The Psychology of Poverty and the "Scarcity Trap"
  4. Profiting on the Backs of Students: The For-Profit College Scam (Fresh Air)
  5. Crossing the Road while Black
  6. After learning she was stolen at birth, teen faces tough choice
  7. MLK visits India
  8. Child Migrants: The Horrors of their Experiences
  9. United Airlines, Cops, and a Passenger
  10. The Burmese Persecution of the Rohingya
  11. Chinese Persecution of the Uighurs (Ban on Names)
  12.  Who are the Rohingya Muslims? The stateless minority fleeing violence in Burma OR  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/rohingya-muslims/
  13. Brazil investigates reports of massacre among Amazonian tribe by gold miners 
  14. Hardwired [The Brain: Nature vs Nurture--New Findings]  (radio program)
  15. [Neuroplasticity] After watching this, your brain will not be the same. (YouTube: 14 min. 24 sec.)
  16. Neo-Nazis and Medieval History / Neo-Nazis and Taylor Swift (radio program)
  17. Miners who boasted about killing uncontacted Amazon tribe members now under investigation 
  18. 'It's part of who I am': Slave descendants win equal rights from Cherokee Nation
  19. Cherokee Freedmen overjoyed by federal court ruling granting tribal citizenship       
  20. Ex-Oklahoma deputy Robert Bates guilty of killing unarmed suspect  
  21. Jury finds white Oklahoma cop not guilty in shooting of unarmed black man 
  22. A white security officer told police he was shot by a black man. Turns out, he’d shot himself, police say. 
  23. Cassini: Probe incinerates on entry to SaturnCassini-Huygens Timeline  /  Cassini Team: Group Photo
  24. Lynching in the U.S. Information Project     
  25. Tax Cuts for the Wealthy   
  26. Current Real Tax Rates Paid by Top U.S. Corporations  
  27. Transgender Teen Murdered and Mutilated  
  28. Four Types of Hate Crimes