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Ελευθερία η Θάνατος. Ιστορία της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης του 1821

Πίνακας της Ελλάδας στα πρόθυρα θανάτου στο Μεσολόγγι το 1825, του Γάλλου ζωγράφου Eugene Delacroix, 1827.  Τις 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2021, έκανα μια διάλεξη για την Ελληνική Επανάσταση του 1821. Ομίλησα με τον Διεθνή Ελληνικό Ομιλο της Ελλάδας.  Να ο σύνδεσμος για την διάλεξη και συζήτηση,  https://youtu.be/H0yx_J1AndQ Εδώ ο σύνδεσμος ομιλίας μου περί του Μηχανισμού των Αντικυθήρων (στα Ελληνικά) https://www.facebook.com/ dimitris.voggolis/videos/ 893253847991746

Is America a Sacrifice Zone?

  In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I taught at Humboldt State University in northern California, the American University in Washington, DC, and the University of New Orleans in Louisiana.   Learning out in the open   My teaching was about our environmental tragedy: how corporate business money captured the government, academia, journalism, and the medical establishment, with the result of giving polluters a free hand. The consequences of this massive corruption, I told my students, was cancer and debilitating neurological diseases and ecocide pushing wildlife towards extinction -- and the rising climate chaos.   I tried to mingle theory with observation. In each of the universities I taught, I invited speakers and took the students to a field trip.   In northern California, we spent a couple days with the Hoopa Native Americans, learning their painful history and seeing them dancing their traditions, and eating salmon they had caught and cooked.   In southern Virginia, we observed th