(2022-09-01). Berlin Senate imposes education cuts and encourages the contamination of the city schools. wsws.org In the face of growing criticism of the Senate's irresponsible policy, Education Senator Astrid-Sabine Busse (SPD) and the city's mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) confront pupils, parents and teachers with outright hostility.
(2022-09-01). Germany says Russian gas deliveries halted via Nord Stream 1. ecns.cn Russian gas supplies to Germany via the important Nord Stream 1 pipeline were reduced to zero again on Wednesday, Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has confirmed.
(2022-09-01). Premier calls for more steps to improve business climate. ecns.cn China will take further steps to foster an enabling business climate and lower government-imposed transaction costs, to continuously ease the burden on market players and unleash their vitality.
(2022-09-01). Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse. indybay.org There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse.
(2022-09-01). Biden Administration Backs Offshore Fracking in California. indybay.org Federal Filing Urges 9th Circuit to Overturn Ban Backed by Kamala Harris…
(2022-08-31). There's No Place For Burnout In A Burning World. popularresistance.org By the age of 10, I was terrified about the state of the world. I wanted to quit school and volunteer for environmental and human rights groups. Instead, I distributed leaflets in my neighborhood and attended rallies with my dad. At 14, I watched "An Inconvenient Truth." At 15, I read a National Geographic article about coal — how it planted cancer in people's lungs, stole their breath, and polluted their water. This broke my heart and, in the midst of that brokenness, I devoted my life to stopping climate change. | Fast forward a decade, and I'd had the privilege of working in several nonprofits, including…
(2022-08-31). Australian Scientists to Harvest Resources From Wastewater. telesurenglish.net A team of Australian scientists has been awarded funding to develop technology that harvests resources from wastewater. | RELATED: | The Australian National University (ANU) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on Wednesday announced over US$685,000 in funding for the inaugural ANU-CSIRO Agri-Food Collaboration Program. | Inspired by breakthroughs in biological research, the team will seek to address the…
(2022-08-31). 60% Increase in Gazprom's Gas Supplies to China Jan-Aug. telesurenglish.net The Russian energy giant's CEO Alexey Miller said, "Our gas supplies to the Chinese market in eight months of 2022 compared to 2021 grew by 60%," noting that the record daily gas supplies above contractual obligations have been brought up to date on several occasions this year. | RELATED: | Miller said gas from the Kovykta field will start flowing through the Power of Siberia pipeline before the end of the year, helpi…
(2022-08-31). China to maintain climate change strategy: official. ecns.cn China will maintain its climate change strategy and continue to promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, said an official at a forum held on Saturday in Beijing.
(2022-08-31). Climate-change driven floods ravage Pakistan, killing more than 1,100 and threatening millions with hunger and disease. wsws.org 33 million people, about 15 percent of Pakistan's population of 225 million, are said to have been directly impacted by the floods.
(2022-08-30). Game Of Nuclear Chicken In Zaporozhye. popularresistance.org The Zaporozhye (also spelt Zaporizhzhia) Nuclear Power Plant has become a focal point in the Ukraine war, as any major nuclear incident risks radioactivity release over a vast area. In such an accident, not only Ukraine but large parts of Europe could face radioactive contamination and much higher cancer rates and other diseases. Russia has claimed the Ukrainian side shelled the Zaporozhye plant in July and August and, on August 23, submitted photographic and other documentary evidence to the UN Security Council. Ukraine contends Russia has been shelling the plant even though it is under Russia's occupation. | Th…
(2022-08-30). Global Warming, Social Inequalities, & Multipolar World. oneworld.press The Economy of the Next is the natural path of humanity, because it creates the conditions for Economic Law, which is the Common Good, with new basis for the Physical and Virtual Territories.