Impacts of Exploding US Oil Production on Climate and Foreign Policy
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-02-15
It's easy for small news items to get lost amid the noise of the news cycle. Two stories I recently came across that piqued my interest have gotten almost no major media attention save for one or two easily missed articles. The first is an analysis by Robert Rapier, a chemical engineer and executive in…
counterpunch.org/2019/02/15/impacts-of-exploding-us-oil-production-on-climate-and-foreign-policy/
Tampa Bay students disrupt USF board meeting, demand protections for undocumented students
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-02-15
Tampa, FL – The Tampa Bay chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a series of protests and a sit-in at the University of South Florida's (USF) main student center on February 12, to pressure the administration to increase protections for immigrant and international students. These protests were a continuation of Tampa Bay SDS's main campaign called, "Immigrants are Here to Stay" in which they demand noncompliance with federal agencies such as ICE, FBI, DHS so that those agencies cannot receive the personal information of documented and undocumented students on campus. | Students held a series of p…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/2/15/tampa-bay-students-disrupt-usf-board-meeting-demand-protections-undocumented-students
School climate strikes
Rupert Read | zcomm.org | 2019-02-15
Why adults no longer have the right to object to their children taking radical action…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/school-climate-strikes/
The Green New Deal Is Indeed a Big Deal
Sonali Kolhatkar | truthdig.com | 2019-02-15
Despite being attacked from many sides so soon after it was introduced, the proposed program may be our best hope out of a climate and economic quagmire. | The post The Green New Deal Is Indeed a Big Deal appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/the-green-new-deal-is-indeed-a-big-deal/
Nuclear Power Can't Survive, Much Less Slow Climate Disruption
John Laforge | counterpunch.org | 2019-02-15
Donald Trump: "America will never be a socialist country." Too late. We already have socialism for the rich, with the nuclear power industry as a prime example. On a level playing field, nuclear power would go bust. Those owners get financial supports or subsidies that safe renewables like solar power, geothermal, and wind power don't…
counterpunch.org/2019/02/15/nuclear-power-cant-survive-much-less-slow-climate-disruption/
What a Green New Deal Should Look Like: Filling in the Details
Jon Rynn | counterpunch.org | 2019-02-15
Now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Senator Markey have introduced their nonbinding Green New Deal resolution, the right-wing snowflakes are melting down while respectable centrists are calling the idea "crazy". On one side, global political and economic elites are doing almost nothing to stop climate change from running out of control, and on the other…
counterpunch.org/2019/02/15/what-a-green-new-deal-should-look-like-filling-in-the-details/
Walls and Borders Are This Country's Most Consistent Climate-Change 'Adaptation'
Ben Ehrenreich | thenation.com | 2019-02-15
Walls and Borders Are This Country's Most Consistent Climate-Change 'Adaptation'…
thenation.com/article/walls-and-borders-are-this-countrys-most-consistent-climate-change-adaptation/
Court Strikes Down FCC's Mean-Spirited Effort to Reinforce Digital Divide
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-02-15
by Janine Jackson | A federal appeals court has overturned FCC chair Ajit Pai's attempt to gut the subsidy that makes it possible for low-income communities to access broadband. For reasons known only to themselves, the FCC's Republican majority voted last fall to make it much harder for people, including tribal residents, to obtain a subsidy provided by a program appropriately called Lifeline. | Lifeline helps people who qualify with a $9.25 monthly subsidy to buy phone and Internet service; for those living on t…
fair.org/home/court-strikes-down-fccs-mean-spirited-effort-to-reinforce-digital-divide/
The Green New Deal, Capitalism and the State
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-02-15
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created by Richard Nixon in 1970 as the official response to the nascent environmental movement. As laid out in the recently released Poison Papers, it was structured to be dependent on research from private firms that were paid by the chemical producers it regulates. Given the limited market for this research, these firms either produced research conducive to the interests of their customers or they went out of business.
counterpunch.org/2019/02/15/the-green-new-deal-capitalism-and-the-state/
Climate change and the fight for socialism
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-15
Young people are organising across national boundaries in recognition that climate change has global causes and global consequences. In doing so, they are meeting up with an international resurgence of the class struggle.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/15/clim-f15.html
Stop Driving 4-Day Boycott (!Global Warming!)
Zachary RunningWolf | indybay.org | 2019-02-15
Everywhere…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/13/18821152.php
Blow to 'Powerful Corporate Interests' as Federal Court Throws Out Pipeline Company Lawsuit Against DAPL Water Protectors
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-02-15
In a "landmark" ruling on Thursday, a federal court in North Dakota tossed out a "baseless" case against Greenpeace and other environmental and Indigenous activists who organized protests against the deeply controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which drew thousands of people to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/two_bulls.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/02/15/blow-powerful-corporate-interests-federal-court-throws-out-pipeline-company-lawsuit?cd-origin=rss
Youth Climate Leaders Launch Campaign to Make McConnell Regret 'Shameless' Green New Deal Ploy
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-02-15
"The fact that McConnell is trying to stop our organizing is a sign that he's scared. It is a testament to the power of our organizing. We can't back down now." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/sunrise_green_new_deal.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/02/15/youth-climate-leaders-launch-campaign-make-mcconnell-regret-shameless-green-new-deal?cd-origin=rss
16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Cheers 'Beginning of Great Changes' as Climate Strike Goes Global
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-02-15
Because "present and future on this planet are at stake," say teen climate activists, "we won't be silent any longer" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/beginning-changes-climate-thunberg.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/02/15/16-year-old-greta-thunberg-cheers-beginning-great-changes-climate-strike-goes-global?cd-origin=rss
Former Westlands lawyer David Bernhardt working to strip Delta Smelt protections
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-02-15
The exposure of David Bernhardt's enormous conflict of interest takes place at a critical time for Delta smelt, salmon and other San Francisco Bay Delta fish populations. For the first time ever, a fish survey that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) conducts every autumn turned up zero Delta smelt throughout the monitoring sites in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in September, October, November and December 2018.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/13/18821153.php
Roberto Lovato: Elliott Abrams Is Bringing Violence of 1980s U.S. Latin America Policy to Venezuela
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-14
President Trump met with Colombian President Iván Duque at the White House Wednesday to discuss ongoing efforts to topple the Venezuelan government, the same day that U.S. special envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams faced questioning from Congress about his role in atrocities carried out in Latin America in the 1980s. This includes defending Guatemalan dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt's campaign of mass murder and torture of indigenous people. We speak with Roberto Lovato, independent journalist working out of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, about the violent history of Elliott Abrams and the U.S.-backed oppos…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/14/roberto_lovato_elliott_abrams_is_bringing
Corporations see a different kind of "green" in Ocasio-Cortez's "green new deal"
Whitney Webb | mronline.org | 2019-02-14
The plan claims that it seeks to "transform the U.S. economy in an effort to fight climate change" that would ostensibly push the U.S. from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable energy in a little over a decade. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/02/14/corporations-see-a-different-kind-of-green-in-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal/
Reintroducing the Climate Crisis Bureau
Shared by trnn_cms_operator | therealnews.com | 2019-02-14
The climate crisis is the most pressing issue of our time. We asked for your help, and you listened. Thanks for helping us fund our climate coverage. | 2018: A Year of Climate Devastation and Resistance | We'd like to extend a warm (but not too warm) welcome to our new Climate Crisis Reporter reporter, Steve Horn. Steve was a longtime guest on the Real News Network and his investigative skills are unmatched. Read his vision for the bureau — and more about him and the rest of the team — below. | Thanks!
therealnews.com/columns/real-climate-coverage-names-names-probes-solutions
Why the rich are to blame for climate crisis
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-02-14
Some people, some companies, some decision makers in particular, have known exactly what priceless values they have been sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money. And I think many of you here today belong to that group of people. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/02/14/why-the-rich-are-to-blame-for-climate-crisis/
Border Patrol Detained Me for Speaking Spanish in Montana. Then My Town Turned Against Me
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-02-14
Customs and Border Protection violated our rights as U.S. citizens just for speaking Spanish in a grocery store. | I moved to Havre, Montana — near the U.S.-Canada border — in 2014 with my husband and our two young children. Home to around 10,000 people, I've always found Havre to be a friendly town, one where I felt good about raising my kids. But that all changed last May when my friend and I were illegally targeted and detained by a Customs and Border Protection agent, just for speaking Spanish to each other in a convenience store. | I didn't think it was possible for one incident to change our liv…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/border-patrol-detained-me-speaking-spanish
U.S. Border Patrol Detained U.S. Citizens for Speaking Spanish in Montana
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-02-14
Illegal arrests and seizures reflect an out-of-control agency emboldened by Trump's anti-immigrant agenda. | For Ana Suda and Martha "Mimi" Hernandez, May 16, 2018, began like any other in Havre, Montana: work, school, and a trip to the gym once their kids were in bed. They stopped by Town Pump — a local convenience store — to pick up groceries. While in line, the friends were chatting in Spanish, just two people having an ordinary conversation. But the Customs and Border Protection agent standing in line behind them did not see it that way. | He demanded to know where Ana and Mimi were born. After t…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/us-border-patrol-detained-us-citizens-speaking
Consumers League blasts Trump decision to let payday lenders run amok
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-02-14
WASHINGTON–The National Consumers League and the lawmaker who created the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) blasted the decision by GOP President Donald Trump's new CFPB director to let "payday lenders" virtually run amok. And the lawmaker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked the new director, Kathy Kraninger, to dump Kraninger's own anti-worker, anti-consumer brainstorm. Trump named …
peoplesworld.org/article/consumers-league-blasts-trump-decision-to-let-payday-lenders-run-amok/
An Emirati Woman's Ordeal to Seek Protection from Abuse
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-02-14
© Hind Albolooki/Twitter | Hind Albolooki fled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after receiving threats from family members for wanting to divorce an abusive husband. | "I am a mother of four children," she said. "No mother would leave her children just like this. But I had to leave my kids. I had no other choice." Her decision to flee says much about the lack of protection available to women in the UAE. | Hind sought asylum in North Macedoni…
hrw.org/news/2019/02/14/emirati-womans-ordeal-seek-protection-abuse
Stop Adani protesters target federal parliament opening
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-14
About 500 protesters rallied outside federal parliament on February 12 under the slogan "Stop Adani – Climate action now!" | Speaking to the protesters, Doctors for the Environment Australia's Sujata Allan said to strong applause: "This is the year we will finally put a stop to the Adani coalmine. | "We know climate change is driving longer, hotter heatwaves. And heatwaves are causing increasing numbers of deaths of people and animals. | "Climate change, and coalmines like Adani, are an inter-generational injustice. | "We must put a stop to Adani and other major coal projects," she said. | High school clim…
greenleft.org.au/content/stop-adani-protesters-target-federal-parliament-opening
NSW Land Court rules against new coalmine
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-14
The NSW Land and Environment Court's decision to refuse the Rocky Hill coalmine near Gloucester on February 8 is ground breaking. For the first time in legal history, the impact of a new coalmine on climate change was a determining factor in refusing consent. | It is the result of years of work by the community in the Upper Hunter, as well as others campaigning for a safe climate. | Groundswell Gloucester chairperson Julie Lyford was ecstatic about the judgement, which had saved the community from a 250-metre-deep open cut coalmine less than 1 kilometre from family homes. She said the Court posed a foundational q…
greenleft.org.au/content/nsw-land-court-rules-against-new-coalmine
Red China goes green: a broad look at Sino-environmentalism
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-02-13
Most people see China as anything but environmentalist, having for some time been one of the most polluted countries on earth. Images in the media are often heart-wrenching, children wearing pollution masks while their parents go through the day more or less helpless to protect them, all while the Chinese government continues to push mass-industrialization […] | The post Red China goes green: a broad look at Sino-environmentalism appeared first on United World International.
uwidata.com/2156-red-china-goes-green-a-broad-look-at-sino-environmentalism/
The End of Ice: Dahr Jamail on Climate Disruption from the Melting Himalayas to Insect Extinction
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-12
A new report finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, even if the world's most ambitious environmental reforms are implemented. The report, released by the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment earlier this month, is the culmination of half a decade's work by over 200 scientists, with an additional 125 experts peer reviewing their work. It warns rising temperatures in the Himalayas could lead to mass population displacement, as well as catastrophic food and water insecurity. The glaciers are a vital water source for the 250 million people who live in the…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/12/the_end_of_ice_dahr_jamail
A conversation about Climate Change with Dharna Noor and Steve Horn — The Baltimore Podcast Show
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-02-09
Eze Jackson and Tracey Beale talk with Dharna Noor and Steve Horn about their work reporting on climate change and the urgency for us to act now | The post A conversation about Climate Change with Dharna Noor and Steve Horn — The Baltimore Podcast Show. appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/a-conversation-about-climate-change-with-dharna-noor-and-steve-horn-the-baltimore-podcast-show
SPLC statement on removal of provisions that protect consumers from predatory lenders
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-02-08
We are deeply disappointed in a decision this week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to rescind rules that would have protected consumers from predatory lenders.
splcenter.org/news/2019/02/08/splc-statement-removal-provisions-protect-consumers-predatory-lenders
Ocasio-Cortez & Markey Unveil Sweeping "Green New Deal" to Radically Shift U.S. Off Fossil Fuels
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-08
After months of anticipation, Democratic New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution for the Green New Deal Thursday, presenting a sweeping plan to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years, make major investments in public transit and federal jobs, fully transition the U.S. electricity off fossil fuels and codify indigenous peoples' rights to prior consent and approval for decisions that affect them. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to mock the proposal on Wednesday, referring to it as a "green dream, or whatever they call i…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/8/ocasio_cortez_markey_unveil_sweeping_green
Anti-LGBT Groups Launch Movement Against Federal Equality Act
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-02-07
Anti-LGBT hate group leaders and activists recently launched a new project, the #Gone2Far movement (GTFM), to oppose H.R. 2282, the federal Equality Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections for the categories of a person's sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/02/08/anti-lgbt-groups-launch-movement-against-federal-equality-act
Birds of Passage Depicts the Devastation of Drug Trafficking for South America's Indigenous People
Ed Rampell | progressive.org | 2019-02-05
Blame it on the Peace Corps.
progressive.org/dispatches/birds-of-passage-rampell-190205/
Climate Jobs for All
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2019-02-01
Building Block for the Green New Deal…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/climate-jobs-for-all/