GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 26 February 2023
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Climate Code Red, a very thorough and well-respected source on climate change/global warming, recently issued a three-part study on where things stand with the climate system via looking through the rearview mirror at 2022 and reflecting that charred image into the future: Faster, Higher, Hotter: What We Learned About the Climate System in 2022 by David Spratt, Research Director, Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, Feb. 20, 2023... Read more
By Charles Posa McFadden / 10 February 2023
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In the aftermath of World War II, the ruling capitalist class within the core capitalist countries countered the universal aspiration of the people for a world without war by launching the Cold War. They also responded to the economic goals of organized labor within the core capitalist countries by conceding to workers a limited right to union organization and collective bargaining, but on condition that union action be limited to wages and working... Read more
By Charles Posa McFadden / 27 January 2023
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A common cause has a common solution
Given the present existential crises which now include both the threat of a quick end to human existence through nuclear war, and the threat from the deepening ecological crisis, our response to both needs to begin with recognition that no problem which has systemic causes is ever more than temporarily and only then partially resolvable by addressing only its proximal causes. We need to identify and address the root causes.
In relation to the... Read more
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By Vidyadhar Date / 15 April 2023
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The American obsession with a close-cut patch of green has its roots in 17th-century Europe. Castles in France and England at the time were guarded by men whose vision couldn’t be obstructed by wild shrubbery in case anybody decided to lay siege, so grazing animals were used to trim unruly vegetation. Since these castles belonged to the wealthiest... Read more
By Amy McEuen / 15 April 2023
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In a climate crisis, city ordinances should encourage us to promote biodiversity in our yards, rather than criminalizing it. Lawns are the largest cultivated crop in America, taking up an estimated 2% of land, over 40 million acres. Mowing and leaf blowing increase greenhouse gas emissions, over 70 million pounds of fertilizers contribute to... Read more
By SETH ACKERMAN / 14 April 2023
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Since Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, some commentators have been waking up to the need for a socialization of deposit-taking banking. They’re right — but the same logic leads to a more radical conclusion: a fully socialized capital market, with no private banks.
By Richie Merino and Danny Shaw / 14 April 2023
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By Andrew Nikiforuk / 11 April 2023
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Argues that the "green technology will save us trope" is crazy: we must drastically reduce our impact on the earth.
By Kim Scipes / 10 April 2023
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Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continnent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and economic development. This especially pertains to sub-Saharan Africa, overwhelmingly populated by black people, thus fitting the trope of white supremists that black people cannot govern themselves.
This book by Susan Williams annihilates the lie. Williams details the... Read more
By Eva Novak / 08 April 2023
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