GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 07 November 2022
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Dateline: November 7–18, 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dignitaries from every country will be meeting to discuss climate change at Conference of the Parties (COP) 27 on climate change. Based upon early confirmations, 90 heads of state will attend, lending an aura of importance.
“Climate change is the crisis of our lifetime. If we are not able to reverse the present trend that is leading to a catastrophe in the world, we will be doomed.” (António... Read more
By Katie Singer / 19 October 2022
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Tesla Megapack on fire at Victorian Big Battery, Australia. Image: Fire Rescue Victoria
In the event that a developer wants to install a utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) facility near you, consider yourself blessed with opportunities. You can shake up your assumptions about “clean, green” energy. You can learn how to present the technology’s not-so-sunny sides so that neighbors and legislators who believe that solar PVs cannot possibly have problems…... Read more
By Don Fitz / 18 October 2022
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The suffering of US women under the iron heel of abortion is intensifying, especially for women of color. This makes it imperative to closely examine possible paths forward. As a teenager during the 1960s I witnessed two political paths that remain imprinted on my mind.
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Even before classes began in 1963, I had organized the first high school Young Democrats chapter in Texas. By 1964 Houston Young Democrats were... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 08 October 2022
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According to the Marine Stewardship Council, depletion of fish stocks is the most urgent threat to the world’s oceans.
Ninety-three percent (93%) of the world’s major marine fish stocks are classified as fully exploited, overexploited, or significantly depleted. “Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a pervasive, far-reaching security threat.” (Source: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing, United States... Read more
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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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By Vijay Prashad / 06 April 2023
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Northeast of Niger’s capital Niamey, near the city of Agadez, is Air Base 201, one of the world’s largest drone bases that is home to several armed MQ-9 Reapers. During a press conference with Blinken, Niger Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou affirmed his country’s “military cooperation” with the United States, which includes the US “equipping… our armed forces, for our army and our air force... Read more