Most Likely to Succeed.
Meredith Anton | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
Oh very young, what will you leave us this time? You're only dancing on this earth for a short while. -Cat Stevens I heard these lyrics the other night while making dinner and realized it was one of those songs that has left a permanent imprint on me, the kind of song that intertwines with…
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Could the Cold War Return With a Vengeance?
Michael T. Klare | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who's even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, thanks to current Pentagon planning, a twenty-first-century version…
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Atmospheric Burnings: The Re-entry of China's Tiangong-1
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
The precipitous demise of China's prototype space station, Tiangong-1, was the sort of event that took earthbound discussions to more heavenly matters. Human beings, as is their wont, tend to follow the rules of colonisation with a certain automatism. In doing so, they have a distinct habit of leaving debris, a junking phenomenon that has seen…
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Most Likely to Succeed
Meredith Anton | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
Oh very young, what will you leave us this time? You're only dancing on this earth for a short while. -Cat Stevens I heard these lyrics the other night while making dinner and realized it was one of those songs that has left a permanent imprint on me, the kind of song that intertwines with…
counterpunch.org/2018/04/04/most-likely-to-succeed/
Atmospheric Burnings: The Re-entry of China's Tiangong-1.
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
The precipitous demise of China's prototype space station, Tiangong-1, was the sort of event that took earthbound discussions to more heavenly matters. Human beings, as is their wont, tend to follow the rules of colonisation with a certain automatism. In doing so, they have a distinct habit of leaving debris, a junking phenomenon that has seen…
counterpunch.org/2018/04/04/atmospheric-burnings-the-re-entry-of-chinas-tiangong-1/
Could the Cold War Return With a Vengeance?
Michael T. Klare | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who's even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, thanks to current Pentagon planning, a twenty-first-century version…
counterpunch.org/2018/04/04/could-the-cold-war-return-with-a-vengeance/
Trump's Trade War With China Will Roil Economies of Many 2018 Election Battleground States
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-04
Trump just handed voters another reason to vote for Democrats in some of 2018's most important races. | President Trump's escalating trade war with China is poised to roil key economic sectors of numerous 2018 political battleground states, where Republican incumbents already are facing a Democratic surge. On Wednesday, China announced tariffs worth $50 billion in retaliation against Trump's just-imposed tariffs on Chinese steel, aluminum and high-tech goods. The Chinese will impose a 25 percent tariff on 106 U. S. products including soybeans, cars and chemicals, it announced. It will also target U. S. corn, cotton, beef, orange juice, whiskey, tobacco, and several lubricants and plastic products. Beyond the boasts by White House National Trade Council director Peter Navarro on Fox Business on March 2 that no country would dare retaliate "for the simple reason that we are the most lucrative and biggest market in. . .
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Trump proposes to deploy troops to US-Mexico border.
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-04-04
The deployment of the military on US soil to arrest or deter immigrants raises the specter of martial law and violates the basic democratic principle of posse comitatus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/04/pers-a04.html
Trump proposes to deploy troops to US-Mexico border
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-04-04
The deployment of the military on US soil to arrest or deter immigrants raises the specter of martial law and violates the basic democratic principle of posse comitatus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/04/pers-a04.html
EPA Violated the Law by Failing to Investigate Civil Rights Complaints, Court Rules.
Sharon Lerner | The Intercept | 2018-04-03
A court ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency violated its duty to respond to civil rights complaints in a timely way. The case involved five organizations that had waited years for the EPA to respond to complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or color. | The law requires the EPA to respond to parties that file civil rights complaints within 20 days, letting them know whether the agency plans to conduct an investigation. After opening an investigation, the EPA has 180 days to either dismiss a complaint or issue preliminary findings and recommendations based on what it finds in the investigation. But in each of the five cases, the groups waited years — in some cases, decades — for responses from the agency. | Among the groups suing…
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EPA Violated the Law by Failing to Investigate Civil Rights Complaints, Court Rules
Sharon Lerner | The Intercept | 2018-04-03
A court ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency violated its duty to respond to civil rights complaints in a timely way. The case involved five organizations that had waited years for the EPA to respond to complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or color. | The law requires the EPA to respond to parties that file civil rights complaints within 20 days, letting them know whether the agency plans to conduct an investigation. After opening an investigation, the EPA has 180 days to either dismiss a complaint or issue preliminary findings and recommendations based on what it finds in the investigation. But in each of the five cases, the groups waited years — in some cases, decades — for responses from the agency. | Among the groups suing…
theintercept.com/2018/04/03/epa-complaints-civil-rights-discrimination-court-ruling/
Abortion and Human Rights in El Salvador.
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-04-03
Last August, I had the opportunity to testify before the Constitutional Tribunal in Chile, my home country, in support of a landmark law that decriminalized abortion in three circumstances. In my testimony before the court, I spoke about how Chile's total abortion ban, in effect for 28 years, undermined women's fundamental human rights. | I later was in the packed courtroom to hear arguments from other expert witnesses. Many people have strong, deeply held views on abortion. But the main question before the court was whether Chile's constitutional protection for the embryo or fetus could be reconciled with allowing women to terminate their pregnancies in certain circumstances–for example, when the life of the woman or girl is at risk, or when the pregnancy resulted from rape. This question is a central part of the debate in El Salvador, where the constitution recognizes the…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/03/abortion-and-human-rights-el-salvador
The Misanthropy of Wild Wild Country.
Christopher Ketcham | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-03
Sometimes a great work comes along to confirm total hatred of the human race, purest misanthropy, a vision that realizes the finest thing at last is to toss aside the humans and go to the forest, hug the trees, make love to the earth, listen to the pollinators buzz — what remains of them (as…
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Pentagon Plans for Three-Front "Long War" Against China and Russia.
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-03
Sailors inspect the landing gear of an F/A-18F Super Hornet on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Spencer Roberts / US Navy) | Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who's even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, thanks to current Pentagon planning, a twenty-first-century version of the Cold War (with dangerous new twists) has begun and hardly anyone has even noticed. | In 2006, when the Department of Defense spelled out its future security role, it saw only one overriding mission: its "Long War" against international terrorism. "With its allies and partners, the United…
www.truth-out.org/news/item/44045-pentagon-plans-for-three-front-long-war-against-china-and-russia
The Misanthropy of Wild Wild Country.
Christopher Ketcham | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-03
Sometimes a great work comes along to confirm total hatred of the human race, purest misanthropy, a vision that realizes the finest thing at last is to toss aside the humans and go to the forest, hug the trees, make love to the earth, listen to the pollinators buzz — what remains of them (as…
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The Misanthropy of Wild Wild Country
Christopher Ketcham | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-03
Sometimes a great work comes along to confirm total hatred of the human race, purest misanthropy, a vision that realizes the finest thing at last is to toss aside the humans and go to the forest, hug the trees, make love to the earth, listen to the pollinators buzz — what remains of them (as…
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Pipeline Backed by Pruitt's Oil Lobbyist Landlord Approved While EPA Chief Was Receiving Sweetheart Rent.
Jake Johnson | MintPress News | 2018-04-03
As EPA chief and reigning number one seed in the " worst Trump cabinet member" bracket Scott Pruitt attempts to beat back accusations that he violated ethics rules by renting a room from the wife of powerful energy lobbyist J. Steven Hart, the New York Times revealed late Monday that Pruitt approved a massive pipeline project supported by Hart's firm at the same time he had access to what critics argue was an unusually low-priced rental. | "A giant pipeline that rips up a vast swath of America and wrecks the climate in exchange for a cheap condo," 350.org founder Bill McKibben tweeted in response to the new report. "Seems the perfect emblem of the Trump years." | While EPA officials immediately pushed back against the notion that Pruitt approved the project as a favor in exchange for the…
The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet.
Ellen Brown | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-03
Two new studies from Europe show that the number of birds in agricultural areas of France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated. The collapse in the bird population mirrors the discovery last October that more than three quarters of all flying insects in Germany have vanished in just three decades. Insects are the staple food source of birds, the pollinators of fruits and the aerators of the soil. | The chief suspect in this mass extinction is the aggressive use of neonicotinoid pesticides, particularly imidacloprid and clothianidin, both made by the Germany-based chemical giant Bayer. These pesticides, along with toxic glyphosate herbicides such as Roundup, have delivered a one-two punch to monarch butterflies, honeybees and birds. But rather than banning these toxic chemicals, on March 21 the EU approved…
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An Oil Price Rally Is Likely?
Nick Cunningham | Global Research | 2018-04-03
Oil prices seesawed at the start of the week before jumping close to multi-year highs on geopolitical concerns, with Brent hitting $70 and WTI at $65. However, geopolitical pressure is only able to influence oil prices to such a degree …
globalresearch.ca/an-oil-price-rally-is-likely/5634534
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop.
Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, John PIlger, et al | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-02
If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now. | Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US, Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone.
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The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop.
John Pilger | Global Research | 2018-04-02
If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now. | Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan …
globalresearch.ca/the-isolation-of-julian-assange-must-stop/5634306
Trump's Protectionism and China's Emergence as a World Economic Power.
Prof. James Petras | Global Research | 2018-04-02
US Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China's growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its "theft" of western technology, "unfair" or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices. President Trump has launched a 'trade war', …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-protectionism-and-chinas-emergence-as-a-world-power/5634351
Why Should the Poor Pay High Drug Prices?
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-02
(Photo: DedMityay / Getty Images) | We have seen a lot of hyperventilating in political circles over Donald Trump's recently proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum. While these do not seem like well-considered policies, and are likely to do more harm than good even from the narrow standpoint of increasing manufacturing employment, they are not by themselves the horror story being presented. | Steel prices often fluctuate by 20 or 30 percent over the course of a year, as they did in 2016. If tariffs raise the price in the US by 10 percent, that would be unfortunate for downstream industries, but not exactly a catastrophe. | However, more important than the specifics of a steel tariff is the implicit assumption that the country as a whole has an interest in stronger and longer patent and copyright protection. Many pundits have attacked Trump's…
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The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, John PIlger, et al | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-02
If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now. | Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US, Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone.
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Climate Change, Biodiversity, Wildlife and the Ecosystem.
Ashley Braun | Global Research | 2018-04-02
Featured image: Sierpe river mangrove in Costa Rica. Credit: Tanguy de Saint-Cyr/ Shutterstock.com, via IPBES | A sweeping new report released today emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are.The Paris Climate …
globalresearch.ca/climate-change-biodiversity-wildlife-and-the-ecosystem/5634392
Boston Will Survive If It Can Prevent the Effects of Climate Change.
Valerie Vande Panne, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-02
Climate scientists, architects and engineers are rethinking Boston to cope with rapidly rising sea levels. | The city of Boston made news in March for receiving four nor'easters in just three weeks. The storms led to piles of snow and coastal flooding. While hurricanes may famously (and fakely) bring sharks to flooded streets, Boston's floods really do bring swans. That might be a sweet and peaceful picture. But the reality is that much of Boston was built on fill and is subject to massive flooding. The city, known for its forward-thinking attitudes, takes the issue very seriously: Does it really want to surrender valuable real estate to mother nature? Paul Kirshen, a professor of climate adaptation at UMass's School for the Environment, is studying the idea of using barrier walls to protect Boston, though he stresses he doesn't advocate for. . .
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Nations Won't Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report.
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-02
A sweeping new report emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are. | The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Nations (UN) pacts "all depend on the health and vitality of our natural environment in all its diversity and complexity," said Dr. Anne Larigauderie, executive secretary of the UN-backed organization behind the report. "Acting to protect and promote biodiversity is at least as important to achieving these commitments and to human well-being as is the fight against global climate change." | The report comes from the efforts of more than 550 scientists in over 100 nations, corralled by an organization often dubbed "the IPCC for biodiversity." | Much like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses the state of research on global warming and its impacts, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and…
www.truth-out.org/news/item/44035-nations-won-t-reach-paris-climate-goal-without-protecting-wildlife-and-nature-warns-report
"Scandinavian Noir", Kim Wall and Murder.
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Global Research | 2018-04-02
Finland, a country noted for deep felt suicides executed during long dark winter months, has become the happiest nation on earth. This statistical superstition, contrived to feed a social-media diet free of substance and light on evidence, belies one fundamental …
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Scandi Noir, Kim Wall and Murder.
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-02
Finland, a country noted for deep felt suicides executed during long dark winter months, has become the happiest nation on earth. This statistical superstition, contrived to feed a social-media diet free of substance and light on evidence, belies one fundamental point: Scandinavia can boast its examples of curious killings and extravagant murders. Little wonder, then, that…
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Weapons for Anyone: 
Donald Trump and the Art of the Arms Deal.
William D. Hartung, TomDispatch | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-02
Trump wants to peddle arms to the hottest spots on Earth. | It's one of those stories of the century that somehow never gets treated that way. For an astounding 25 of the past 26 years, the United States has been the leading arms dealer on the planet, at some moments in near monopolistic fashion. Its major weapons-producers, including Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, regularly pour the latest in high-tech arms and munitions into the most explosive areas of the planet with ample assistance from the Pentagon. In recent years, the bulk of those arms have gone to the Greater Middle East. Donald Trump is only the latest American president to preside over a global arms sales bonanza. With remarkable enthusiasm, he's appointed himself America's number one weapons salesman and he couldn't be prouder of the job. . .
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Scandi Noir, Kim Wall and Murder
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-02
Finland, a country noted for deep felt suicides executed during long dark winter months, has become the happiest nation on earth. This statistical superstition, contrived to feed a social-media diet free of substance and light on evidence, belies one fundamental point: Scandinavia can boast its examples of curious killings and extravagant murders. Little wonder, then, that…
counterpunch.org/2018/04/02/scandi-noir-kim-wall-and-murder/
The Outrage Over Trump's Syria Withdrawal: "We Took The Oil. We've Got To Keep The Oil"
ZeroHedge.com | MintPress News | 2018-04-02
Weekend editorials and cable news pundit shows reacted in disbelief and horror – with charges of "chaos" at the Trump White House over Syria policy, and claims that "ISIS will come back. | The post The Outrage Over Trump's Syria Withdrawal: "We Took The Oil. We've Got To Keep The Oil" appeared first on MintPress News.
The Outrage Over Trump's Syria Withdrawal: "We Took The Oil. We’ve Got To Keep The Oil"
The Warm War: Russiamania at the Boiling Point.
Jim Kavanagh | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-02
Is it war yet? Yes, in too many respects. It's a relentless economic, diplomatic, and ideological war, spiced with (so far) just a dash of military war, and the strong scent of more to come. I mean war with Russia, of course, although Russia is the point target for a constellation of emerging adversaries the US is desperate to entame before any one or combination of them becomes too strong to defeat.
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Charles Blow: The American Justice System Was Designed to Kill Black Men.
Ilana Novick, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-02
Police shootings like the one that slayed Stephon Clark are a feature, not a bug. | Protests erupted in Sacramento, California and around the country this week after Stephon Clark was killed by police officers, the latest in what's become a regular occurrence in America. These protests are necessary and even briefly cathartic, but as Charles blow writes in his Monday column, the relief they provide is overshadowed by an ugly truth: the American justice system is designed to kill people of color. Whether it's Trayvon Martin in Florida, Michael Brown in St. Louis, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Eric Garner in New York, or any of the other countless deaths at the hands of police, there is, a "ritualization of these traumas in which the shootings serve as catalysts, a lancing of the boil, in which decades of oppression, neglect, desperation and hopelessness. . .
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The Warm War: Russiamania at the Boiling Point
Jim Kavanagh | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-02
Is it war yet? Yes, in too many respects. It's a relentless economic, diplomatic, and ideological war, spiced with (so far) just a dash of military war, and the strong scent of more to come. I mean war with Russia, of course, although Russia is the point target for a constellation of emerging adversaries the US is desperate to entame before any one or combination of them becomes too strong to defeat.
counterpunch.org/2018/04/02/the-warm-war-russiamania-at-the-boiling-point/
Trump Appoints Endangered Species Foe to Oversee Protection of America's Most Imperiled Wildlife.
FBD | Global Research | 2018-04-01
The Trump administration has quietly named Susan Combs — an outspoken foe of endangered species and a climate change denier — as acting assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks. She now oversees the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and …
globalresearch.ca/trump-appoints-endangered-species-foe-to-oversee-protection-of-americas-most-imperiled-wildlife/5634236
The Oligarchs' 'Guaranteed Basic Income' Scam.
Chris Hedges | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-01
Don't buy the oily declarations from the tech billionaires and others that they want to help you survive financially. What they want is to more fully stuff their own pockets. | The post The Oligarchs' 'Guaranteed Basic Income' Scam appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Ecuador Grants Open-Pit Mining Permits in One of the World's Most Biodiverse Areas.
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-01
The Ecuadorian government has opened huge portions of land to large-scale open-pit mining projects. Last week, Mindo residents were among the thousands who took to the streets all across Ecuador in a march to demand an end to environmentally destructive mining.Protesters march against mining on March 22, 2018, near Mindo, Ecuador. (Photo: Sophie Moon) | Mindo is a small village in the lush, tropical cloud forest that descends from the Andes to the coast just outside of Quito, Ecuador. The cloud forest is home to an abundance of wildlife, such as brightly colored lizards, wild cats, spectacled bear, and over 600 species of birds. Mindo was recently named one of the top 10 places to birdwatch in the world by National Geographic, and those who live there are known for their conservationist stances and fights against oil corporations. The area is so…
www.truth-out.org/news/item/44020-ecuador-grants-open-pit-mining-permits-in-one-of-the-world-s-most-biodiverse-areas
Delinquent $13.8 Billion Pipeline Company Receives Minor Fine For Major Oil Spill.
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-03-31
In the last 12 years, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, who manage one of the largest petroleum pipeline networks in the U.S., has had 61 incidents, 12 of which have been in Indiana, including recent spill of 42,000 gallons of diesel. In the same week they had to pay fine of $300 thousand for spill last year but Sierra Club's Jodi Perras says that's 'a drop in the bucket' for the company which made a profit of $330 million last year.
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Delinquent $13.8 Billion Pipeline Company Receives Minor Fine For Major Oil Spill
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-03-31
In the last 12 years, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, who manage one of the largest petroleum pipeline networks in the U.S., has had 61 incidents, 12 of which have been in Indiana, including recent spill of 42,000 gallons of diesel. In the same week they had to pay fine of $300 thousand for spill last year but Sierra Club's Jodi Perras says that's 'a drop in the bucket' for the company which made a profit of $330 million last year.
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A TigerSwan Employee Quietly Registered a New Business in Louisiana After the State Denied the Security Firm a License to Operate.
Alleen Brown | The Intercept | 2018-03-30
The company notorious for surveilling pipeline opponents at Standing Rock was pursuing a contract to guard Louisiana's Bayou Bridge pipeline. | The post A TigerSwan Employee Quietly Registered a New Business in Louisiana After the State Denied the Security Firm a License to Operate appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/03/30/louisiana-bayou-bridge-pipeline-tigerswan-private-security/
March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause.
Jon Jeter | MintPress News | 2018-03-30
The dynamism and interracial character of last week's March For Our Lives rallies provides further evidence that American workers have a chance of challenging the wealthy for a bigger piece of the pie only when they put their tribal differences aside to fight together. | The post March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause appeared first on MintPress News.
March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause
March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause
Jon Jeter | MintPress News | 2018-03-30
The dynamism and interracial character of last week's March For Our Lives rallies provides further evidence that American workers have a chance of challenging the wealthy for a bigger piece of the pie only when they put their tribal differences aside to fight together. | The post March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause appeared first on MintPress News.
March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause
Big Oil and Climate Science on Trial
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-03-30
Climate change science is basis of San Francisco and Oakland's legal case against Big Oil companies, to make them pay billions for rising public cost of rising sea level due to global warming. In a surprise move, Chevron admits humans are causing climate change but says the company is not liable…
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Headlines for March 30, 2018.
Democracy Now! | 2018-03-30
EPA to Roll Back Fuel Efficiency and Emissions Standards, Leaked EPA Email Orders Employees to Mislead on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Lobbyist Gave EPA Chief Cheap Access to D.C. Condo, Leaders of North and South Korea to Meet in April at Truce Village, Russia Expels 60 American Diplomats Amid Mounting Tensions, Gaza: Five Dead, Hundreds Injured as Israeli Troops Fire on Protests, Egypt: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Wins Second Presidential Term in "Farce" Election, Trump Says U.S. to Pull Troops Out of Syria "Like Very Soon", Pentagon Chief Meets John Bolton, Jokes That He's "Devil Incarnate", Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Allow Jailing of Pregnant Women, North Carolina Prohibits Shackling Women Prisoners During Childbirth, Boycott of Laura Ingraham Grows After She Mocks Shooting Survivor, Punished for Distributing Clean Water, MA Prisoner Enters Hunger Strike, Stephon Clark: Hundreds Attend Funeral for Sacramento Man Slain by Police, Texas Woman Sentenced to 5 Years for Voting While on Probation, Oklahoma Teachers Plan Strike as Lawmakers Grant Limited Pay Raise, New York: Activists Hold Jericho Walk to Support Immigrant Mother in Sanctuary…
www.democracynow.org/2018/3/30/headlines
Headlines for March 30, 2018
Democracy Now! | 2018-03-30
EPA to Roll Back Fuel Efficiency and Emissions Standards, Leaked EPA Email Orders Employees to Mislead on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Lobbyist Gave EPA Chief Cheap Access to D.C. Condo, Leaders of North and South Korea to Meet in April at Truce Village, Russia Expels 60 American Diplomats Amid Mounting Tensions, Gaza: Five Dead, Hundreds Injured as Israeli Troops Fire on Protests, Egypt: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Wins Second Presidential Term in "Farce" Election, Trump Says U.S. to Pull Troops Out of Syria "Like Very Soon", Pentagon Chief Meets John Bolton, Jokes That He's "Devil Incarnate", Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Allow Jailing of Pregnant Women, North Carolina Prohibits Shackling Women Prisoners During Childbirth, Boycott of Laura Ingraham Grows After She Mocks Shooting Survivor, Punished for Distributing Clean Water, MA Prisoner Enters Hunger Strike, Stephon Clark: Hundreds Attend Funeral for Sacramento Man Slain by Police, Texas Woman Sentenced to 5 Years for Voting While on Probation, Oklahoma Teachers Plan Strike as Lawmakers Grant Limited Pay Raise, New York: Activists Hold Jericho Walk to Support Immigrant Mother in Sanctuary…
www.democracynow.org/2018/3/30/headlines
Big Oil and Climate Science on Trial.
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-03-30
Climate change science is basis of San Francisco and Oakland's legal case against Big Oil companies, to make them pay billions for rising public cost of rising sea level due to global warming. In a surprise move, Chevron admits humans are causing climate change but says the company is not liable…
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The Mosquito Gap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases.
Sarah Anderson | counterpunch.org | 2018-03-30
OK, I admit it, I'm a freeloader. My neighbors asked if I'd go in on a mosquito control service last spring, and I turned them down. I was skeptical about whether the "eco-friendly" service would actually work. But I was mostly taken aback by the cost: $750 for the season. Several neighbors went ahead and…
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Boston Will Survive If It Can Prevent The Effects of Climate Change.
Valerie Vande Panne, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-30
Climate scientists, architects and engineers are rethinking Boston to cope with rapidly rising sea levels. | The city of Boston made news in March for receiving four nor'easters in just three weeks. The storms led to piles of snow and coastal flooding. While hurricanes may famously (and fakely) bring sharks to flooded streets, Boston's floods really do bring swans. That might be a sweet and peaceful picture. But the reality is that much of Boston was built on fill and subject to massive flooding. The city, known for its forward-thinking attitudes, takes the issue very seriously: Does it really want to surrender valuable real estate to mother nature? Paul Kirshen, a professor of climate adaptation at UMass' School for the Environment, is studying the idea of using barrier walls to protect Boston, though he stresses he doesn't advocate for them.
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Big Oil and Climate Science on Trial.
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-03-30
Climate change science is basis of San Francisco and Oakland's legal case against Big Oil companies, to make them pay billions for rising public cost of rising sea level due to global warming. In surprise move, Chevron admits humans are causing climate change but say they are not liable…
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