_____ (2021-12-31). After The Wars In Iraq, 'Everything Living Is Dying'. popularresistance.org As far back as 2005, the United Nations had estimated that Iraq was already littered with several thousand contaminated sites. Five years later, an investigation by The Times, a London-based newspaper, suggested that the U.S. military had generated some 11 million pounds of toxic waste and abandoned it in Iraq. Today, the country remains awash in hazardous materials, such as depleted uranium and dioxin, which have polluted the soil and water. And extractive industries like the KAR oil refinery often operate with minimal transparency. On top of all of this, Iraq is among the countries most vulnerable to climate ch…

Jacqueline Luqman (2021-12-31). Film Review: 'Don't Look Up' Uses Satire to Condemn U.S. Government on Climate Inaction. towardfreedom.org "Don't Look Up" uses satire to magnify the outrageous responses of fictional U.S. politicians, media, corporations and the population to a fictional comet that is about to collide with Earth and wipe out all life. But how it is any different than how real-life politicians have failed to address an impending climate catastrophe that can cost us our lives?

Ryan Hamby (2021-12-31). Catastrophic wildfire rips through Boulder, Colorado suburbs. liberationnews.org The fire is the harsh reality of climate change on full display — but instead of watching the flames, we should fight for a better world than the one…

CJ Polychroniou (2021-12-31). Killing Nature Must Be Treated as a Crime on a Par with Genocide and War Crimes. zcomm.org The time has come for drastic measures to protect the environment and save the world from a climate catastrophe…

_____ (2021-12-31). Another Nail in the U.S. Empire's Coffin… Biden Signs $770 Billion War Budget. strategic-culture.org Three decades after the Cold War officially ended, the U.S. is setting a new record high for annual expenditure on its armed forces. | As this year ends, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law military spending of $770 billion. That's just for the next year alone. The scale of wastefulness and bloated corruption is eye-watering. It eclipses what the United States is willing to invest for overhauling its badly neglected civilian infrastructure and for combating the coronavirus pandemic that has killed far more people in the U.S. than in any other nation. | If there is one thing that portends a historic collapse…

Charles Pekow (2021-12-31). The US Still Doesn't Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Nuclear Waste. truthout.org A year-and-a-half after a