(2021-11-23). What role does the military play in climate change? mronline.org 
A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined.
(2021-11-23). 'Rich countries are pretending they're responding to climate crisis while blocking real solutions'. peoplesdispatch.org Vijay Prashad from Globetrotter speaks to Asad Rehman, Director of War on Want, about why even after 26 climate conferences, little progress has been made in taking concrete climate action…
(2021-11-23). COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures. orinocotribune.com By Ajamu Baraka -Nov 17, 2021 | For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history — a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change. | COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet's looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe. | We need justice. But that word — Justice! — despite all…
(2021-11-22). Far Right Institutional Power Isn't Inevitable. Here's How Leftists Can Win. zcomm.org There is this great opportunity for the left to assert a bold and visionary policy about not just mitigating the effects of climate change but effectively using climate change as a lever for economic transformation…
(2021-11-22). A Stain On The George Washington University Name. popularresistance.org Our newest report, "The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain on the George Washington University Name," delves into the Koch and ExxonMobil funded RSC, which has repeatedly acted as a front for fossil fuel interests with a history of using GW's name to provide credibility to climate deniers, fossil fuel cronies, and other discredited backers of pseudoscience. The report, written by UnKoch My Campus Student Organizer and GW student Jake Lowe, highlights a number of instances of climate disinformation and details how the RSC has played a role in promoting a deregulation agenda that benefits its donors.
(2021-11-22). The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain On The George Washington University Name. popularresistance.org Our newest report, "The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain on the George Washington University Name," delves into the Koch and ExxonMobil funded RSC, which has repeatedly acted as a front for fossil fuel interests with a history of using GW's name to provide credibility to climate deniers, fossil fuel cronies, and other discredited backers of pseudoscience. The report, written by UnKoch My Campus Student Organizer and GW student Jake Lowe, highlights a number of instances of climate disinformation and details how the RSC has played a role in promoting a deregulation agenda that benefits its donors.
(2021-11-22). More U.S. citizens than ever before understand climate change is real and dangerous. peoplesworld.org 
People in the U.S. are taking the climate crisis more seriously than ever before, a new survey indicates. The latest Climate Change in the American Mind survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found that an all-time high of 76 percent of U.S. respondents think global warming is happening. Further, for the first time, more than half …
(2021-11-22). COP26 focused on long-term climate goals. But what does this decade hold? zcomm.org Change must happen before 2030 to avoid disaster. Despite the disappointment around Glasgow, climate science and activism offer hope of progress…
(2021-11-22). "Large uncertainties" over warming outcomes from current climate policies. imperial.ac.uk There is a risk that "false precision" in the reporting of climate policy outcomes could lead to complacency by governments, researchers have warned.
(2021-11-22). The Laura Flanders Show: Native Sovereignty is Key to Climate Justice. roarmag.org In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honoring the traditional, legal and moral rights of native nations. Earlier this year, a group of Native organizers traveled with a 25-foot totem pole from the Lummi Nation in Washington State to Washington D.C. stopping for ceremonies in communities under threat and gathering messages for the Biden Harris administration. In DC they held a historic meeting with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. | In this episode, we hear what happened in that meeting, how Native movement…
(2021-11-22). Holistic approach needed to tackle the impact of climate change on mental health. imperial.ac.uk Healthcare leaders and policy makers must take a holistic approach to respond to the mental health impacts of climate change, says an Imperial expert.
(2021-11-22). RCMP arrest Wet'suwet'en land defenders days after COP26 summit. canadiandimension.com 
RCMP Emergency Response Team members stand watch during a raid on Wet'suwet'en territory in British Columbia, November 19, 2021. Photo courtesy Gidimt'en Checkpoint. | Just days after the conclusion of the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and calls from international groups to stop the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders, militarized police violence against defenders in Canada has seemingly become normalized while a key deadline set by a United Nations committee that urged Canada to stop the Coastal GasLink pipeline has been ignored. | On November 19, Gidimt'en Checkpoint tweeted:…
(2021-11-22). Bernie Sanders Endorses Peter Welch of Vermont for US Senate. truthout.org 
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed Rep. Peter Welch for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, calling the Democratic congressman a progressive champion of working people. | "Peter Welch understands that if we are going to combat the existential threat of climate change, establish universal healthcare, lower the cost of prescription drugs, create good paying jobs in Vermont, and protect American democracy, now is the time to think big, not small," Sanders (I-Vt.)
(2021-11-22). Chomsky and Pollin: Protests Outside of COP26 Offered More Hope Than the Summit. truthout.org 
The legacy of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) this fall was perhaps best encapsulated by its president, who bowed his head and — close to tears — actually apologized for the process, which ended with a last-minute watering-down of participants' pledges on coal. | "May I just say to all delegates I apologize for the way this process has unfolded and I am deeply sorry," said Alok Sharma, the British politician who served as president for COP26. The confer…
(2021-11-22). The win-wins of climate and biodiversity solutions. nationofchange.org We need all efforts, big and small, to solve the biodiversity and climate crises.
(2021-11-22). What Do an Apology, Reconciliation, and a Sacred Obligation to Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights of First Nations Look Like in Canada? dissidentvoice.org 
They send a hundred RCMP to go protect a pipeline and not protect people's lives so we need to push back. They put industry, they put fracking, they put gas and oil over everyone's lives. — Eve Saint, a Wet'suwet'en land defender In the nineteenth century, Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, a colonial official, wrote an account …