Fossil Fuels Are a Threat to Civilization, New U.N. Report Concludes
Kate Aronoff | theintercept.com | 2018-10-09
Around the middle of the last century, the chemical DDT was found to pose a risk to human and animal health. The ultimate response — after a prolonged fight between environmentalists and the chemical industry — was a federal ban on all uses of the substance found to be unsafe. | On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a daunting report, suggesting that we are currently on track for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming caused by gre…
theintercept.com/2018/10/09/un-report-climate-change-fossil-fuels/

Climate Scientist: As U.N. Warns of Global Catastrophe, We Need a "Marshall Plan" for Climate Change
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-09
A new report from the United Nations' climate panel warns humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe. Otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty. The sweeping report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges immediate and unprecedented changes to global policy in order to keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5 ∫C. We speak with Kevin Anderson, Zennstrà∂m professor in climate change leadership at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University and chair of ener…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/9/climate_scientist_as_un_warns_of

1.5 To Stay Alive, Says Landmark UN Climate Report
Tom Athanasiou | thenation.com | 2018-10-09
1.5 To Stay Alive, Says Landmark UN Climate Report…
thenation.com/article/1-5-to-stay-alive-says-landmark-un-climate-report/

The Emergency Brake
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-09
Although the Trump Administration, it was recently revealed, concluded that it's too late to do anything to avert catastrophic climate change (and, so, why even bother), the UN just announced that there's still time to avoid mass death and suffering — if there is "massive, immediate transformation." But how would such an immediate transformation unfold? Because we seem…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/09/the-emergency-brake/

IPCC's New Climate Report: We Could See Irreparable Damage by 2040
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-10-09
The IPCC climate report once said a 3.6 degree F rise from the pre-industrial era could be disastrous. New research drops that threshold to 2.7 degrees F and says that the point of no-return could be as early as 2040 | The post IPCC's New Climate Report: We Could See Irreparable Damage by 2040 appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/ipccs-new-climate-report-we-could-see-irreparable-damage-by-2040

Salt of the Earth Movie Screening
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library | indybay.org | 2018-10-09
Nibeyl-Proctor Marxist Library: | 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/09/18818127.php

'I sleep with a loaded gun': Rand Paul's wife afraid of 'unhinged' people goaded by Democrats
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-09
Facing an increasingly polarized political climate, the wife of Senator Rand Paul says she sleeps with a loaded gun as a precaution against "unhinged" people being goaded by Democrats into harassing Republican lawmakers.
rt.com/usa/440736-kelley-paul-loaded-gun-liberals/

We Need a "Marshall Plan" for Climate Change, Says Climate Expert
Shared by candice | truthout.org | 2018-10-09
A new report from the United Nations' climate panel warns humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe. Otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty. The sweeping report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges immediate and unprecedented changes to global policy in order to keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius. We speak with Kevin Anderson, Zennstrà∂m professor in climate change leadership at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University and cha…
truthout.org/video/we-need-a-marshall-plan-for-climate-change-says-climate-expert/

IPCC's New Climate Report: We Could See Irreparable Damage by 2040
Shared by Marc Steiner | therealnews.com | 2018-10-09
The IPCC climate report once said a 3.6 degree F rise from the pre-industrial era could be disastrous. New research drops that threshold to 2.7 degrees F and says that the point of no-return could be as early as 2040 | The post IPCC's New Climate Report: We Could See Irreparable Damage by 2040 appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/ipccs-new-climate-report-we-could-see-irreparable-damage-by-2040

Grizzly Victory: Trophy Hunt Stopped, But Bear Deaths Skyrocket
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-08
Late afternoon of September 24, Federal Judge Dana Christensen restored endangered species protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears, putting to rest for now the threat of a grizzly bear trophy hunt. With a sigh of relief, I noticed the pungent smell of cottonwoods by the creek where we live and watched a few gold leaves flutter to…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/08/grizzly-victory-trophy-hunt-stopped-but-bear-deaths-skyrocket/

GOP Candidate Wrote a Book Arguing the Founding Fathers Were Right Not to Abolish Slavery
Matthew Chapman, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-10-08
Ron DeSantis can't run from his racial rhetoric. | Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), the GOP's nominee for governor of Florida, has found himself in yet another controversy over racist rhetoric. American Ledger, a project of the super PAC American Bridge, has unearthed a series of toxic arguments put forward by DeSantis in his 2011 book, "Dre. . .
alternet.org/election-03918/ron-desantis-book-thurgood-marshall-founding-fathers-slavery

Iran May Lose 70% Of Cultivated Land If It Fails To Take Urgent Action: Official
Tasnim News | iranian.com | 2018-10-08
Iran faces losing 70 percent of its farmlands if urgent action is not taken to overcome a litany of climate woes, Isa Kalantari, the country's environment chief, said. "We currently use about 100 percent of our renewable water … according to global standards this figure should not be higher than 40 percent," said Kalantari, vice […] | The post Iran May Lose 70% Of Cultivated Land If It Fails To Take Urgent Action: Official appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/07/iran-may-lose-70-of-cultivated-land/

Sharp rise in child protection interventions in Australia
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-08
The statistics point to a deepening social crisis, particularly in working class and rural areas, with the worst impact on indigenous families.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/chil-o08.html

Something's broken inside Earth? Scientists explore why millennia-old process has stalled
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-07
Scientists have diagnosed the Earth as having a bizarre geological condition known as 'stagnant slabs', meaning tectonic rocks subducted into the fiery hot mantle mysteriously become wedged hundreds of miles below the surface.
rt.com/usa/440606-stagnant-slabs-earth-mantle/

Indonesia's earthquake catastrophe
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-06
The disaster has been made immeasurably worse by poverty, social inequality and the refusal of the Indonesian and international ruling elites to ensure the protection of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/06/indo-o06.html

Drought-Laden Rainforests
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-05
The world's rainforests are under attack at a rate of 2.5 acres per second. Global warming and clear-cutting for growing palm oil and raising cattle are some of the biggest annihilators. The repercussions are devastating. For example, one of the consequences is harmful alteration of hydrological cycles for major grain-growing regions of the planet. But,…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/drought-laden-rainforests/

Planet Earth Is Doomed. How Do I Go On?
Liza Featherstone | thenation.com | 2018-10-05
Planet Earth Is Doomed. How Do I Go On?
thenation.com/article/planet-earth-is-doomed-how-do-i-go-on/

#BoycottGosling: Flat Earthers & patriots incensed at 'removal' of US flag from moon landing film
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-05
US patriots and Flat Earthers alike took to Twitter to vent their outrage following the premiere of the new Neil Armstrong biopic First Man, which does not feature the iconic planting of the American flag on the lunar surface.
rt.com/usa/440399-first-man-flag-moon/

Venezuela to Donate US$10m to Indonesia Earthquake Victims
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-10-04
President Maduro confirms they will use funds from the "solidarity fund" to aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island of Celebes in late September.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14083

Hatewatch Headlines 10/5/2018
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-10-04
ADF claims White House debriefed it on Kavanaugh; Gab faces payments cutoff; Judge blocks ending protections for immigrants; and…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/05/hatewatch-headlines-1052018

San Francisco Is a Hotbed of Illegal Race-Based Policing
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-04
Law enforcement in San Francisco have subverted the Constitution and broken the law by basing arrests on race. | Our Constitution promises all people, regardless of race, equal protection under the law. Yet the San Francisco Police Department has consistently singled out Black people for enforcement of criminal laws. | In 2013 and 2014, the SFPD collaborated with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California on a drug enforcement operation. Despite the fact that the SFPD knew that in the Tenderloin district — where they chose to the…
aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/san-francisco-hotbed-illegal-race-based-policing

A history: Asylum in the United States
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-10-02
Modern international refugee protection efforts grew from the ashes of Europe in World War II, bringing together nation-states through the United Nations to offer asylum to refugees uprooted from the war.
splcenter.org/20181002/history-asylum-united-states

Losing Legal Protections, Immigrants Facing Deportation Share Their Stories
James Goodman | progressive.org | 2018-10-02
Many migrants with Temporary Protected Status have called the U.S. home for over a decade. Some have joined a twelve-week, cross-country "Journey for Justice" tour to let people know why they want to stay.
progressive.org/dispatches/losing-legal-protections-immigrants-facing-deportation-share-181002/

A Judge Just Reminded CBP That the Border Isn't a Rights-Free Zone
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-01
A federal court ruled in favor of an American family suing over their abusive detention at the U.S.-Canada border. | An American family that underwent a harrowing detention at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection can now seek some measure of justice. That's the result of a recent ruling by the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit we filed on behalf of…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/judge-just-reminded-cbp-border-isnt-rights-free-zone

Headlines for September 28, 2018
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-28
Christine Blasey Ford Tells Senators Brett Kavanaugh Sexually Assaulted Her, GOP Senators Abandon Sex Crimes Prosecutor They Hired Amid Kavanaugh Questions, Kavanaugh Angrily Denies Sex Crimes Charges, Alleging Left-Wing Conspiracy, Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote on Kavanaugh Nomination Today, American Bar Association Calls for FBI Investigation into Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick: "I Don't Think He Belongs" on SCOTUS, Kavanaugh Accusers Demand FBI Investigation, Senate Hearings, 59 Arrested in Protest of Kavanaugh Near Supreme Court, Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Strikes Near Indonesia, Trump Threate…
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/28/headlines