Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

A brief note as the war winds down/intensifies/God knows

Billionaire investors are intent on selling Artificial Intelligence into public schools. This is a bad idea that will add to the environmental degradation associated with water and energy hogging data centers.

Veterans For Peace issues a scathing condemnation of the U.S.–Israeli attack on Iran, calling it an illegal war of aggression built on deception and double standards. Drawing parallels with past catastrophic wars, the statement challenges official narratives, highlights violations of international and constitutional law, and warns of escalating global instability. It urges military personnel to…

Almost Everywhere, I notice Artificial Intelligence. After A.I.s from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google kept recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said his company would not help the U.S. surveil unwitting civilians or deploy killer drones. In response, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said contractors don’t get to tell the government how…

So in plain language, here is the actual claim: “We have no choice but to meet all electricity demands and doing so via renewable energy increases greenhouse gas emissions by a lesser amount than fossil fuels.” Now that we have clarity on the actual claim, we can break it down. The reality is this: 1)…

The Guatemalan government announced the termination of the medical collaboration agreement with Cuba under which Cuban health professionals worked in remote and impoverished areas of the country since 1998.

The world trembled as Bad Bunny marched onto the field at the Super Bowl, in front of millions of spectators, with flags from every country in the Americas, in a performance that, while a kick to imperialism, will only find dry dust in liberal enthusiasm. While the Puerto Rican singer fired off in Spanish, across…

In the shadow of escalating federal repression, Minneapolis emerges as a true City of Heroes — where veterans, neighbors and new acivists stand shoulder-to-shoulder against militarized “Homeland Security” assaults on their streets. From winter vigils to first-aid patrols and whistles in the night, those once silent now resist with unwavering solidarity. The courageous presence of…

Gerry McGovern’s newest book, 99th Day: A Warning about Technology, reads like a Truth and Reconciliation Commission about technology’s impacts on ecosystems and public health. From his start on a small Irish farm, McGovern wanted to be a modern, materially wealthy man. In the early 90s, he developed an online community, a blogging system and…

The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat—it is an accelerating emergency exposing the bankruptcy of incremental solutions and market-driven “green transitions.” This incisive update dismantles the myth of a smooth energy transition, revealing how renewables are being layered atop fossil fuels rather than replacing them. As heatwaves, storms, and ecological breakdown intensify, the…