Daily Archives: August 23, 2021

2021-08-23: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2021-08-23). Climate Emergency v. Afghanistan. zcomm.org Why do TV Cable News, Pols ignore the greatest Terror Threat to the US in History?>

_____ (2021-08-23). Extinction Rebellion London Protests: Happening Now. popularresistance.org A giant pink table inviting Londoners to "come to the table" and discuss climate change has been erected by Extinction Rebellion protesters near Leicester Square.

WSWS (2021-08-23). Extreme weather, climate change and the case for socialism. wsws.org The scope of the recent and ongoing climate disasters exposes the bankruptcy of capitalism and its complete inability to deal in any meaningful way with the ongoing climate crisis.

Liberation News (2021-08-23). Worst air in the world? Salt Lake City, Utah. peoplesdispatch.org Air pollution levels in Salt Lake City, Utah reached dangerous new highs following the wildfires in the region which have increased in recent years due to climate-change fueled droughts…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-23). Humanity's Survival May Depend on 2022 Defeat of Bolsonaro. libya360.wordpress.com Samuel Geddes Bolsonaro's vulgar dismissals of this reality have led to the highest levels of deforestation on record. With unprecedented firestorms raging from California to the Siberian Arctic, the release of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announcing to the world that 'climate change is upon us,' almost seemed redundant. Unsurprisingly, the…

Leon Kunstenaar (2021-08-23). Art Mural Action in San Francisco's Dolores Park. indybay.org Sunrise Bay Area and and CA GND Coalition paint "Seal The Deal" mural for climate, jobs, care and justice…

_____ (2021-08-23). Carbon Dividends Provide a Win-Win Solution for People and the Climate. commondreams.org If Democrats want to govern for a generation instead of winning one-off races by slim margins, we will need to mend the deep tears among the American electorate and reckon with the injustices that were sewn into the fabric of our flag.

Chris Jenkins (2021-08-23). Extinction Rebellion activists treated as terrorists. greenleft.org.au Extinction Rebellion activists were raided by an anti-terrorist outift for chalking a protest sign against oil and gas giant Woodside Energy, which has recently been given the go-ahead for its Scarborough gas project. Chris Jenkins reports.

H. Patricia Hynes (2021-08-23). Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy. globalresearch.ca In 2011 …

Thomas Kilkauer — Meg Young (2021-08-23). Global Warming's Walking Dead. counterpunch.org Once again, the recently issued Sixth Report of the IPCC on global warming paints a rather grim picture of our common global future. The report, written by 200 scientists and approved by 195 countries, came at a time when sections of Turkey, Italy, Siberia, and Greece were still burning with some areas suffering from temperatures

_____ (2021-08-22). "Paul Wolfowitz" tells Newsmax The Afghanistan War Has Wasted Two Trillion Dollars. popularresistance.org NewsmaxTV today allowed a fake Paul Wolfowitz to spend 11 minutes telling its hundreds of thousands of viewers that the $2.1T war in Afghanistan, begun by his administration in 2001, was a complete waste of money. "The next time we have two trillion dollars lying around, let's spend it on something useful like health care or education," said "Wolfowitz" to Tom Basile, live on the air.

_____ (2021-08-22). 'Paul Wolfowitz' Tells Newsmax The Afghanistan War Wasted Two Trillion Dollars. popularresistance.org NewsmaxTV today allowed a fake Paul Wolfowitz to spend 11 minutes telling its hundreds of thousands of viewers that the $2.1T war in Afghanistan, begun by his administration in 2001, was a complete waste of money. "The next time we have two trillion dollars lying around, let's spend it on something useful like health care or education," said "Wolfowitz" to Tom Basile, live on the air. | Here below is a partial transcript of the interview. For more on the interview and its fallout, visit www.theyesmen.org/newsmax. | Tom, there's been a lot of focus on how Biden ended this war in Afghanistan, and on what we have to…

Bryan Ellis (2021-08-22). Sarasota rally for climate, care jobs demands $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. liberationnews.org Sarasota activists urge Vern Buchanan to pass the full economic recovery plan that invests in climate justice, new jobs and the care economy.

Staff (2021-08-22). It's Not Just Manchin: Top House Energy Democrat Also Has Fossil Fuel Conflicts. truthout.org This article was produced by Amid the mounting climate emergency, the House Democrat who chairs the committee overseeing energy policy benefits from investments in large U.S. greenhouse gas polluters. Environmen…

Staff (2021-08-22). Tech "Solutions" Are Pushed by Fossil Fuel Industry to Delay Real Climate Action. truthout.org This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world authority on the state of Earth's climate, The IPCC has been publishing rep…

Lucas Alden (2021-08-22). Opportunities, Denialism, "Liberty," Movements — Climate Catastrophe/Covid — A Final Act for Humanity? zcomm.org Have existing left formations seized the uncommon opportunities left to us by previous generations and collaborated on a participatory level to provide a popular and unified response to a pandemic and climate catastrophe?>

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