Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-09: News Headlines

Barbara Ransby (2022-03-08). On a Grim and Bloody International Women's Day, Let's Build Feminist Solidarity. truthout.org On this International Women's Day, as the world watches a historic and bloody war unfold in Europe — while people in the United States and Europe largely continue to ignore the suffering of the millions of Black and Brown people who have been rendered stateless by war, corruption and the climate crisis, many of them women — we need to fortify ourselves, pump up our optimism and bolster our resolve to fight for a better world. | Women are always vulnerable to sexual violence and ab…

Editor (2022-03-08). Impacts of warming faster and more severe than expected says IPCC. mronline.org Ecosystems everywhere are altered by climate change. For some of them, the limits of adaptation are exceeded (especially in polar and equatorial regions) — they will not be able to regenerate naturally.

_____ (2022-03-08). Ukraine: A Planetary Crisis Provoked By The US That Threatens Nuclear War. popularresistance.org Let us begin a conversation in response to what currently qualifies as the most profound question, the one that needs most urgently to be addressed if we are to have any chance of understanding what we conveniently refer to as the "Ukraine crisis." This is, more accurately, a planetary crisis—close in magnitude to the near-certainty of species extinction within the next century, but in some ways ahead of secondary catastrophes such as the obscene, raging inequality between peoples and nations unleashed by President Ronald Reagan and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s, and the global cong…

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2022-03-08: News Headlines

_____ (2022-03-07). Socialist Planning Could Reverse Sober Findings In New UN Climate Report. popularresistance.org The latest UN Climate Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability released Feb. 28 once again urges immediate action and outlines the catastrophic effects that humanity faces with the continued lack of meaningful action. Compiled by 270 researchers from 67 countries, it outlines the impacts that are already unfolding and how these disasters will increase even if warming is limited to the 1.5 Celsius temperature threshold above pre-industrial levels. | The world is currently at around 1.1 C warming and we are already experiencing unprecedented heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, floods, and extreme weather events…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?>

Sharon Kelly (2022-03-07). Energy Transfer continued work after telling investors Mariner East Pipeline was completed. nationofchange.org Documents show the company continued "tie ins" for the pipeline project after a February 16 earnings call announcement, and photographs and videos showed pipeline work underway into March.

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