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By Stan Cox / 12 September 2022
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Recent polls suggest that the bonkers, even barbaric, rhetoric coming from far-right MAGA candidates could be undermining Republicans’ chances of capturing both chambers of Congress in November. Now, the greater danger may lie down-ballot. If extremists win key offices in swing-state governments in 2022, they might manage to award their states’ Electoral College votes to the MAGA presidential candidate, against the will of the voters, in... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 18 August 2022
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Carbon emissions have turned the planet into a heat machine.
According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, severe drought is now found throughout the planet.
A recent Cambridge University study claims that since 2015 European drought has accelerated and intensified. In fact, the continent is experiencing the most intense drought in 250 years.
By Robert Hunziker / 13 August 2022
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As the UK suffered its hottest-ever temperatures only recently, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, interviewed Britain’s erudite environmental journalist George Monbiot July 21, 2022 about his most recent article in The Guardian: This Heatwave Has Eviscerated The Idea That Small Changes Can Tackle Extreme Weather, July 18, 2022.
According to Monbiot: “Paper straws are not enough. Only System Change can halt the climate crisis.” Of course... Read more
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
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By Ben Norton / 27 January 2023
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Ukraine’s Western-backed leader Volodymyr Zelensky sent a love letter to US companies, thanking “such giants of the international financial and investment world as BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs” for buying up his country’s assets. “Everyone can become a big business by working with Ukraine”, he enticed, claiming that the... Read more
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By Dana Drugmand / 19 January 2023
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As chemicals designed to kill insects and weeds, fungi and rodents, pesticides are among the most toxic and damaging substances on the planet. Theirharmful impacts on human and ecosystem healthare generally well understood. What receives far less attention, however, is the climate impact of these agrochemicals. Not only do pesticides directly... Read more
By Bala Chambers / 18 January 2023
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By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume / 04 January 2023
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In the case of anthropogenic climate chaos, the two clusters are centered around denialism and what we could call technophilia or perhaps techno-hopium. Climate chaos results from industrial-scaled agricultural civilization, so seriously addressing it would any would entail significantly changing that system, and—if we’re going to be honest—... Read more
By Omali Yeshitela / 03 January 2023
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There are strong indications that in early 2023, I, Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), founder of the Uhuru (“Freedom”) Movement, will be indicted, along with other Uhuru leaders and members, by the federal government of the United States. Using the bogus and slanderous charge that we are “Russian agents,” the... Read more