(2022-09-03). Russia Announces Indefinite Closure of Key Pipeline to Europe Amid Escalating Economic Warfare. news.antiwar.com The economic war between the West and Moscow ratcheted up significantly on Friday when the G7 announced price caps on Russian oil exports. Moscow responded by extending the closure of a critical pipeline bringing gas to Europe. The White House has vowed to destroy the Russian economy, and the Kremlin has responded by further driving …
(2022-09-03). Russia completely cuts off gas exports to Europe. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) — Russia's Gazprom on Friday announced that it has completely halted exporting gas to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
(2022-09-03). Gas supplies via Nord Stream 1 pipeline indefinitely halted. ecns.cn The supply of Russian gas to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be interrupted for an indefinite period, due to problems in a key piece of equipment, Russia's largest gas producer Gazprom said on Friday evening.
(2022-09-03). Ohio teachers win through mass solidarity. workers.org 
In a climate of recent worker mobilizations and fights, teachers in two different Ohio school districts started their school year off in a class battle against their employers. The teachers of both districts are represented by the Ohio Education Association (OEA), an affiliate of the National Education Association. After voting . . . |
(2022-09-03). Biden Administration Backs Offshore Fracking in California. indybay.org Federal Filing Urges 9th Circuit to Overturn Ban Backed by Kamala Harris…
(2022-09-02). Appeals Court: Firm can't call coronavirus a natural disaster requiring layoffs. peoplesworld.org 
NEW ORLEANS —In a notable workers' rights win as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled in late spring that a Texas fracking company can't claim the virus is a "natural disaster" that lets it avoid the federal WARN Act—the plant-closing law—and lay off its workers without notice. …
(2022-09-02). Climate, conflicts raise stakes in hungry world. ecns.cn Millions of people struggling for food every day are seeing their hopes dimmed by soaring grain prices and tight supplies amid the impact of climate change and Western sanctions on Russia.
(2022-09-02). More Money, More Problems (for Our Democracy and Our Planet). commondreams.org We're on a slippery slope of complete democratic collapse—and corresponding planetary collapse due to inaction on climate change—if we don't act fast.
(2022-09-02). 500,000-year-old giant elephant tusk discovered in Israel. ecns.cn A 500,000-year-old elephant tusk was discovered in Israel's southern coastal plain. The 2.5-meter-long tusk fossil, which belonged to a straight-tusked elephant known as Palaeoloxodon antiquus apparently appeared in the region about 800,000 years ago and became extinct 400,000 years ago.
(2022-09-02). Jackson, Mississippi Has Been Paralyzed by Racism, Classism, and the Worsening Climate Crisis. commondreams.org "What we are experiencing now is literally just the crumbling of the empire's infrastructure."
(2022-09-02). Capitalism Created The Climate Catastrophe. popularresistance.org In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference. This is the 27th conference of the parties to assess the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, commonly referred to as COP 27. The international environmental treaty was established in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, with the first conference held in Berlin in 1995; the agreements were extended in the Kyoto Protocol of 2005 and supplemented by the Paris Agreement of 2015. No more needs to be said of the climate catastrophe, which threatens mass specie…
(2022-09-01). As the World Floods and Burns, It's Time to Hold Wall Street to Account. commondreams.org This fall, we're calling for a wave of escalated actions on the banks, insurers, and investors funding the climate crisis.