GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 08 August 2022
For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s a disturbing discovery, but first a look at the marine food web, starting with the lowest organisms: (1) phytoplankton — plant-like plankton (green algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates) eaten by (2) zooplankton – microorganisms (crustaceans, rotifers, insect larvae and mites) eaten by (3)... Read more
By Raymond Nat Turner / 24 July 2022
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dial 9-1-1 singing the dispatcher this:
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Akron…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Brunswick…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Cleveland…)
Tell the cops, “He’s got a broken brake light…Treat it like a traffic stop!”
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Ferguson…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from New Orleans…)
Tell the cops... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 22 July 2022
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It rained for 9 hours at Summit Station, Greenland, 10,530’ elevation.
Greenland is sending signals to coastal metropolises around the world that it’s never too early to start building seawalls. These are not mixed signals from the big ice island. Rather, they are straightforward signals indicative of rapid breakdown of average ice thickness of 5,000 feet sooner than ever thought possible.
Stating the obvious, it’s horrible news.
In conjunction... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 19 July 2022
“With 35% loss globally since 1970, wetlands are our most threatened ecosystem, disappearing three times faster than forests. Wetlands’ services for climate mitigation, adaptation biodiversity, and human health outweigh all other terrestrial ecosystems.” (Source: Wetlands are Being Lost at Alarming Rates, Global Wetland Outlook, 2021)
Sudd is Africa’s largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It’s under threat by a megaproject named... Read more
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By Jonathan Matthews / 26 November 2022
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Guardian columnist George Monbiot, whose support for nuclear power has been an issue in UK climate circles for several years, has now apparently joined forces with Mark Lynas, the UK's leading "ecomodernist," in a campaign to lift regulations on GMOs and gene editing. Their new effort is also opposing the UK's 24% organic farming targets, and promoting a future where 90% of people live in cities.
By Ajamu Baraka / 18 November 2022
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And while the duopoly represents the primary political contradiction obscuring the reality of the dictatorship of capital, the most aggressive neoliberal actors now operate in and through the democratic party. Consequently, the unspoken character of the competition between the two parties is that elections have now shaped up since 2016 as a contest between the far-right elements represented today... Read more
By Dan Gearino / 04 November 2022
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New research suggests that the effective lifespan of solar panels may have risen to double what was once estimated, in the range of 40-50 years. That gives manufacturers more time to perfect methods for recycling materials, which still lags behind.
By Richard Heinberg / 08 October 2022
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Many environmentalists are thrilled with the IRA; others less so. Those in the more critical camp have pointed disapprovingly to the bill’s promotion of nuclear, and note that, in order to gain Senator Joe Manchin’s vote, Democrats agreed to streamline oil and gas pipeline approvals in a separate bill. In effect, the government will be encouraging the... Read more
By Moon of Alabama / 08 October 2022
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Western’ media continue todenazify Ukraineby pretending that the Nazi formations in that country, which they had long decried, are now a harmless collection of celebrities. 'Among the 215 Ukrainian prisoners of war released in the exchange were 108 members of the Azov Battalion.' ... It was easy to findsome 40 storiesin main stream media which between... Read more
By CounterPunch News Service / 07 October 2022
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The ILWU has always criticized NATO’s war moves. Since the end of World War II we’ve opposed U.S. wars and coups in Korea, Vietnam, Angola, Serbia (former Yugoslavia), Cuba (Bay of Pigs Invasion), Chile (coup), El Salvador and Nicaragua. On May Day 2008, ILWU shutdown all West Coast ports to oppose the “imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” (... Read more
By Vladislav Ugolny / 06 October 2022
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The hope for reunification was based on the fact that Russia is a stable state governed by the rule of law, with fully-fledged institutions and an established civil society. Living their lives on the frontline of a geopolitical confrontation, Russians in Donbass dreamed that one day war would disappear. They hoped that Donbass would become an ordinary... Read more