Shipping 
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SOURCE: Buffalo News
10/21/2022
A Near-Catastrophic Ferry Trip Recalls Past Naval Disasters
by Gary B. Ostrower
The Navy lost nearly 800 sailors to a Pacific typhoon in 1944. An admittedly less-serious incident on a study abroad trip makes the author mindful of the potential hazards of naval service.
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SOURCE: Public Seminar
4/2/2021
The World the Suez Canal Made
by Aaron Jakes
"The purpose of the Suez Canal, from the perspective of both the Egyptian state and its European investors, was not simply to render the world more interconnected and international transport more efficient, but to extract transit fees from the ships passing through it."
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SOURCE: Vice
3/30/2021
The Last Time the Suez Canal Was Blocked a Utopian Communist Micronation Was Formed at Sea
The Egyptian blockade of the Suez Canal in the 1967 Six Day War stranded several ships in an adjacent lake. Egyptian policy prevented the ships from leaving, but not from having supplies and fresh crew members brought in. For eight years, the ships were a floating international commune.
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SOURCE: NPR
3/29/2021
The History Of The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal, according to Zachary Karabell, has been a nexus for past great power conflicts, anticolonialist struggle, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Now it shows the vulnerability of global capitalism's supply chain infrastructure.
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SOURCE: In These Times
12/1/2020
The Great Black Radical You've Never Heard Of
by Peter Cole
The author of a new book on an understudied Black labor radical presents context for an exerpt of an interview Ben Fletcher gave to the New York Amsterdam News, a rare surviving case of the organizer telling his own story.
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SOURCE: TIME
3/9/2020
The Grand Princess Has Docked in California. Here’s What to Know About the History of Quarantine on Ships
by Olivia B. Waxman
Epidemiologists say that keeping sick people on a ship in an attempt to isolate disease can “amplify infections.”
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12-17-17
You Haven’t Heard of OBOR? You Should.
by Tom Clifford
It’s China’s biggest attempt to dominate the world since the 16th century.
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