Neither the corporate media nor our politicians who are beholden to corporate lobbyists honestly address the common root causes of (and solutions to) worker exploitation and climate change. Sonali Kolhatkar As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering… Read More The deadly intersection of labor exploitation and climate change
William Astore I still remember how, soon after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush boasted that this country had “the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known.” I also remember how, in a pep talk given to U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2010, President Barack Obama declared them “the finest fighting force that the world has… Read More Perpetual wars and the ‘greatest fighting force in human history’
France has retained a quasi-empire in Africa by stealth, and it is under threat like never before. Nabila Ramdani Retreats from crumbling empires are inevitably characterised by hastily arranged evacuations. Panicked civilians make their way to rickety airport terminals, in the hope of an emergency flight out of the chaos. This was the postcolonial scene… Read More The Niger crisis shows France’s quasi-empire in Africa is finally crumbling
The climate crisis is not about a single photogenic weather event. The climate crisis is war, it is poverty, it is radicalisation, it is the disappearance of the habitat families have lived in for generations, and it is the geopolitical and security fallout of collapsing ways of making a living. The result is a movement… Read More The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all
The protest in London’s bustling Chinatown brought together a variety of activist groups to oppose a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. So it was peculiar when a street brawl broke out among mostly ethnic Chinese demonstrators. Witnesses said the fight, in November 2021, started when men aligned with the event’s organizers, including a group called… Read More A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul
First posted September 09, 2014 America has over 4,800 nuclear weapons, and we don’t take terrific care of them. It’s terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g See also: Maybe there is a God after all: US Air Force nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961 Noam Chomsky – How Many Minutes to … Hiroshima Day 2014. If some extraterrestrial species… Read More Funny and very scary: John Oliver on Nuclear Weapons
the early U.S. was a settlers’ empire, a political and military force with the main goal to provide farm families (and speculators) with more land. So it went for generations. Jason Opal The indictment of former United States president Donald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most… Read More America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump / Trump has lost control of his own image
The deadly effects of ideological extremism in the Middle East for the past few decades have caused governments and journalists to focus on it. The Arabic word is al-taṭarruf. I was interested, however, to see the word put to a different purpose in a Sky News Arabia article , where it is used to refer to extremely high… Read More Climate Change: the New Mideast Extremism / Severe Consequences of new Oil, Gas and Coal Production
Jake Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday reiterated his call for the Biden Justice Department to take legal action against the fossil fuel industry, arguing that oil companies have violated a range of federal laws in their campaigns to mislead the public about climate change. “Like the tobacco industry before them, the fossil fuel companies’ actions represent… Read More Bernie Sanders says Big Oil must pay for ‘extraordinary damage it has caused’
Julian Zelizer, CNN By refusing to accept the results of an election that was proven to be legitimate and actively trying to overturn the results, Trump put our democracy in grave danger. By seeking this indictment, as well as the one involving Trump’s handling of classified documents, the Department of Justice has broken with the precedent… Read More Trump’s indictment reverses a 50-year precedent
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