The Canary (2020-05-04). Don't rush to the tip when it reopens, householders urged. thecanary.co Householders are being urged not to rush to the dumps when they reopen, amid concerns over long queues of people trying to get rid of lockdown rubbish.Many household waste and recycling centres are closed during the lockdown because they could not be operated within social distancing rules and to allow councils to focus on household waste collections.The government has since said it wants to see councils reopen tips, with social distancing in place, while residents should only go if their journey is essential.People queue in their cars outside a household waste recycling plant in Manchester (Peter Byrne/PA)Closur…

RT (2020-05-04). 'We can't be garbage dump for Europe': Fears in Turkey over imported plastic waste spike. rt.com Turkey has become a primary destination for plastic waste from richer European countries after the garbage was rejected by China and India. An environmental and health crisis is now in the making in Turkey, locals say. | In 2018, China banned the import of plastic waste, citing the environmental damage the practice had done to the country over the decades. India followed suit the next year. The decisions sent shockwaves across the global waste management industry, with exporting nations forced to find new destinations for their refuse. | For several European countries, Turkey became the new major target for se…

Bill McKibben (2020-05-04). 'A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement'. zcomm.org Michael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal…

Climate One (2020-05-04). COVID-19 and Climate: The Future of Energy. indybay.org Online via livestream (FREE)…

Prof. Paul Jobin (2020-05-04). The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Civil Actions as a Social Movement. globalresearch.ca Like the many industrial disasters that have marked the history of modern and contemporary Japan, the nuclear disaster of March 2011 resulted in much litigation. By the ninth anniversary of the catastrophe in 2020, nearly four hundred individual civil actions, …

Ryan Bellinson (2020-05-03). Coronavirus Class Politics: Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste. commondreams.org Workers and their allies can use this crisis to fight for a Green New Deal and a 21st-century era of social and economic justice. (Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/covid-crisis-gnd.jpg …

Whitney Webb (2020-05-03). Bill Gates Partners With DARPA & Department of Defense For New DNA Nanotech COVID19 Vaccine! thealtworld.com In this powerful interview, Spiro is joined by Whitney Webb and Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond, as they discuss the rollout of a new system of control the likes of which the world has never seen. | It has been said to never let a good crisis go to waste, and it appears the ones pulling the strings are taking full advantage of the current crisis as more and more evidence emerges contradicting the official story that suggests this crisis is no accident. | The fact that Bill Gates has teamed up with the Department of Defense and DARPA, which is the special project research and development arm of the P…

RT (2020-05-03). 'Wasteful' US and China-chasing India: What 5 biggest military powers are spending more than a TRILLION DOLLARS on. rt.com Global defense spending saw its largest annual increase in a decade in 2019, proving that the trend for bloated military budgets is here to stay — but expenditure doesn't always correlate simply with power, analysts told RT. | With military budgets peaking at a colossal $1.9 trillion last year (a 3.6 percent increase on 2018), it is clear that governments are still deeply in love with throwing massive amounts of money into the production and acquisition of the latest and fanciest new weapons of war. We have now reached the "highest level of spending since the 2008 global financial crisis," according to t…

Leanna First-Arai (2020-05-02). Amid shutdowns, youth climate activists are writing the curriculum for a just economic recovery. nationofchange.org "Organizing is intertwined with our survival as a people, and that can't take a back seat."

en.mehrnews (2020-05-02). Blood of Hashd al-Sha'abi Martyrs not to be wasted: al-Kazemi. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 02 (MNA) — In response to the martyrdom of a number of Hashd al-Sha'abi forces by ISIL, Iraqi Prime Minister designate Mustafa al-Kazemi swore to God that their blood will not be wasted.

Tim Shorrock (2020-05-01). Electoral Triumph Spurs Green New Deal in South Korea. thenation.com Electoral Triumph Spurs Green New Deal in South Korea…

Eds. (2020-05-01). No Going Back—The COVID-19 pandemic theses. mronline.org We live in the age of the pandemic. We live in an age of environmental destruction and climate change. None of these are natural disasters—they all result from the way society and production is currently organised.

Peter Bolton (2020-05-01). Leading scholar says current pandemic could be a tipping point in the climate crisis. thecanary.co The coronavirus (Covid-19)

Priti Gulati Cox — Stan Cox (2020-05-01). The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner. counterpunch.org Note: I began designing this table-runner just before the COVID-19 pandemic blew up in the United States. In the time I have been embroidering it, rates of death and misery have soared while wealth generation and carbon emissions (the two subjects of this work) have ended their decades-long rise and have plummeted. A deadly virus

news.un (2020-04-30). Greta Thunberg launches campaign to support UNICEF protection efforts against COVID-19. news.un.org Climate activist Greta Thunberg along with Danish NGO Human Act, on Thursday launched a child rights-driven campaign to support the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in protecting young lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2020-05-02). 'Milestone Moment' as JPMorgan Chase Announces Former Exxon CEO to No Longer Be Lead Director of Bank's Board. commondreams.org The ousting of "America's #1 climate denier" from the leadership position on the board of the largest global lender of fossil fuels is being welcomed by the climate movement. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/lee-raymond-jpmorgan-out.jpg …

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Petal Shower by Armed Forces: Waste of Resources or Modi's 'Flower Power' Way to Fight Crisis? sputniknews.com New Delhi (Sputnik): Despite implementing the world's most extensive lockdown for around two months, the approval rating of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is up; making him more popular than other world leaders. However, some have criticised India's government for using military assets to express solidarity with those fighting COVID-19.