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By Robert Hunziker / 18 April 2023
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NASA: “Without ozone, the Sun’s intense UV radiation would sterilize the Earth’s surface.”
It was 36 years ago in panic mode when the world came together like never before unanimously agreeing to ratify The Montreal Protocol, banning CFCs. This was done to protect ozone (O3), which is a widely-dispersed layer of molecules at 10-30 miles in the stratosphere that shields humanity from dangerously harsh UV Sun radiation.
Appallingly, a... Read more
By Kim Scipes / 02 April 2023
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Making Sense of the Latest IPCC Report (2023)
--Kim Scipes
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a UN agency with climatologists from over 70 counties included) has just come out with a new report about climate change. (Available at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/.) The news is not good.
Basically, their arguments have gotten more refined, more specific: climate change is impacting humans, animals, and plants to a greater and greater extent,... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 18 March 2023
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A new 40-year study discovered the eye-opening fact that what happens in the Amazon Rainforest impacts the entire Earth system. This puts an exclamation point on the fact that the Amazon Rainforest, the planet’s most crucial source of life support, is in deep trouble mainly because of massive deforestation.
The Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests combined, the Congo Basin and Indonesia,... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 11 March 2023
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A battle over how to protect the planet from overheating is heating up.
Academics are coming out of the woodwork, forming coalitions, issuing declarations. A subdued debate over the merits versus demerits of solar geoengineering (SRM) has been ongoing for years. Now battle lines are forming.
The SRM controversy is coming to a head, in part, because of a small two-person startup company named Make Sunsets launching weather balloons... Read more
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By Collin P. Poirot and Azadeh Shahshahani / 29 April 2023
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On July 29, 2022, Omali Yeshitela and his wife, Ona Zene, awoke at 5 o’clock in the morning to the sound of flash grenades and drones, as heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their home searching for evidence of organizational ties to the Russian government. Yeshitela is the 80-year-old chair of the African People’s Socialist Party, a Pan-Africanist political party founded in 1972 and... Read more
By Ramzy Baroud / 28 April 2023
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By Julia Paley / 26 April 2023
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By Dr. Harlan Levine / 24 April 2023
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By Michael Fox / 23 April 2023
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These wind farms there have been largely constructed and run by foreign transnational corporations. Residents say that while on the surface these wind turbines are generating clean energy, the transnational wind companies have disrespected communal land rights, stiffed residents money owed for renting their land, and refused to benefit the local... Read more
By Gerald Sussman / 18 April 2023
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A more contemporary expression of fascist hatred was articulated by Ukraine’s notorious Azov Battalion founder, Andriy Biletsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament from 2014 to 2019. Ukraine’s mission, he said in 2010, was to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans].” Today, through... Read more
By Dr Pedro Mzileni / 17 April 2023
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T he US is highly involved in the invasion of Ukraine together with NATO. Their occupation of the Russian territory, the Eastern Europe border and the rest of Global North is a continuation of decades and centuries of imperialism, settler colonialism and genocide in the region. .. The Pentagon leaks shows that the US is spying on everyone... Read more