What Comes Next
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-28
There are no hidden secrets about anthropogenic global warming. It's everywhere, wherever one looks! After all, the People's Climate March (311,000) in 2014 organized by 350.org (Bill McKibben) was one of the biggest rallies ever held in NYC. Also, worldwide exposure was ubiquitously on display at the Paris Agreement/2015 assemblage to tackle climate change, involving…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/28/what-comes-next-2/
The Blue Wave is Awash With Hypocrisy
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-28
Americans across the country will be bracing for the coming Blue Wave; a self-induced disaster that will outpace even the climate change induced storms sweeping the country. The Blue Wave is inevitable as the inaction on climate change that will come with it. Democrats feel entitled to fill more seats with hot air now that…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/28/the-blue-wave-is-awash-with-hypocrisy/
On Ron Ridenour's 'Pentagon on Alert: The Russian Peace Threat'
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-28
In the preface to his remarkable three-volume History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky, writing in 1930 about earth-shaking events in which he was a key actor, explains his view of writing history. He cites reactionary French historian Louis Madelin, who wrote that…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/28/on-ron-ridenours-pentagon-on-alert-the-russian-peace-threat/
Forget Organic Food, Go for Growth
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-09-28
Conservation scientists say high-yield farms may help to solve the world's great dilemma: how, this century, to feed nine billion, contain global warming and at the same time preserve the creatures of the wild. | They endorse intensive agriculture — chemical pesticides, inorganic fertilisers, indoor dairy herds and so on — as an acceptable answer to the challenge of meeting all three objectives. | But they add a cautionary note: the high-yield approach will work only if it is matched by ever more careful conservation of the…
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Presentation of 2020 or Bust! Stop Climate Change Now!
Van Luong | indybay.org | 2018-09-28
San Francisco Main Library, Latino Hispanic Room B, Lower Level | 100 Larkin St. | SF CA 94102…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/26/18817835.php
Climate Activists Target $6 Trillion Asset Manager BlackRock
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-09-27
Organizers held actions in New York to say that though their CEO claims to be environmentally conscious, BlackRock contributes more to climate change than almost any other company on Earth | The post Climate Activists Target $6 Trillion Asset Manager BlackRock appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/climate-activists-target-6-trillion-asset-manager-blackrock
An Untold Number of Indigenous Children Disappeared at U.S. Boarding Schools. Tribal Nations Are Raising the Stakes in Search of Answers
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2018-09-25
Tribal nations have turned to the U.N. in an effort to obtain a full accounting of those who went missing at schools like the Carlisle Indian School. | The post An Untold Number of Indigenous Children Disappeared at U.S. Boarding Schools. Tribal Nations Are Raising the Stakes in Search of Answers. appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/09/25/carlisle-indian-industrial-school-indigenous-children-disappeared/
Randy Forsberg and the Quest for Peace on Earth
Roger Kimmel Smith | progressive.org | 2018-09-21
On the International Day of Peace, remembering a pioneer in nuclear disarmament and the evolution of humanity away from war.
progressive.org/dispatches/randy-forsberg-and-the-quest-for-peace-on-earth-180921/
Climate Change Made Florence a Monster–but Media Failed to Tell That Story
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2018-09-20
The Miami Herald never mentioned global warming in 21 stories on Hurricane Florence, Public Citizen found–despite being based in one of the US cities most vulnerable to climate change. | That Hurricane Florence broke rainfall records for tropical storms in both North and South Carolina shouldn't be…
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