2023-06-30: News Headlines

Ben Bartee (2023-06-30). Climate Change Propaganda Roundup: Bankers Announce Plans to Confiscate Private Property for Climate Change. globalresearch.ca

Roselena Ramirez (2023-06-30). Climate Change Threatens Life on Colombia's San Andres Island. america.cgtn.com San Andres and Providencia are two Colombian Islands in the Caribbean Sea. Tourists travel from around the world…to experience this tropical paradise. But in November 2020, Hurricanes Eta and Iota destroyed or damaged most of their infrastructure. And it's been challenging to recover. Michelle Begue …

unitedEditor (2023-06-30). Geopolitics, war, climate and economy: The need for a global alternative economic and social paradigm. uwidata.com The present still dominant global economic system is a generalized, expanded and globalized form of the one prevailing in western capitalism during the 19th century, based on the same neoclassic economic doctrines. The previous form of "neo-classic" capitalism has provoked the two big economic crises (1873 and 1929), two world wars, the Russian Revolution and …

Brian Berletic (2023-06-30). Garland Nixon & Washington's War on the World. thealtworld.com Today, we speak to political commentator and analyst Garland Nixon about Washington's growing confrontation with Russia and China, the political climate back in the United States, and much more…

Staff (2023-06-30). Zelensky invites 20-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. youtube.com

teleSUR (2023-06-30). Petro Decrees Economic and Social Emergency in La Guajira. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian President Gustavo Petro decreed a state of economic and social emergency in La Guajira, a department located in the northern part of the country that has been devastated by drought. | RELATED: | "It is absolutely necessary to declare the economic and social emergency because a public calamity is looming. All climate models are warning us about an impending drought that has never been seen b…

Amy Goodman (2023-06-29). Trudeau Lit a Fuse to One of the Largest Carbon Bombs on Earth, Activist Says. truthout.org As wildfire smoke fills the skies and record heat waves cook much of North America, Canadian climate activist Tzeporah Berman says governments need to be pushed to phase out fossil fuels more rapidly. "We need people to stand up to this industry. We need activism to protest in the streets, to demand our governments stand up to this industry. And we also need international cooperation," says Berman. |

Jake Johnson (2023-06-29). Activists Demand Climate Action as Deadly Heat and Toxic Smoke Envelop the US. truthout.org More than 120 million people across the U.S. — over a third of the country's population — were living under air quality alerts as of late Wednesday as smoke from hundreds of out-of-control Canadian wildfires blanketed much of the Northeast and the Midwest, temporarily leaving Detroit and Chicago with the most polluted air in the world. Michigan's air quality alert was extended through Thursday "as… |

Kwolanne Felix (2023-06-29). Young Climate Activists Aren't Leading Tomorrow — They Are Leading Today. truthout.org As a young person in the climate movement, I am so proud of my generation and our dedicated work in addressing the climate crisis. Seeing the amazing news of young people fighting against climate change fills me with the courage to continue doing my part. I am empowered every day when I see the way young people around the world are leading the fight. This is why I'm puzzled when older people… |

Unicorn Riot (2023-06-29). Clergy Demand Release of Indigenous Climate Activist Victor Puertas from ICE Detention. unicornriot.ninja

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-06-30). Of COURSE Greta Met With Zelensky: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Foreign conflicts in the 2020s are always like, | USA: Let's militarily encircle this large nation | Large Nation: Hey stop | USA: Let's heavily arm proxy forces right on their border | Large Nation: We're drawing a red line | USA: Let's cross the red line immediately | Large Nation: *acts* | USA: OMG COMPLETELY UNPROVOKED AGGRESSION | ‚ùñ | Of course Greta Thunberg

_____ (2023-06-30). New Evidence From Nord Stream Underwater Expedition Refutes Official Claims. strategic-culture.org Observers have drawn a number of conclusions based on a recent series of visits to the site of the Nord Stream pipeline rupture via drone. There's just one problem: all of them seemed to have missed the location of the explosions. | After a recent underwater expedition, The Grayzone can now reveal where they went wrong, and what the real blast sites tell us about the worst act of eco-terrorism in history. | By Wyatt REED and Max BLUMENTHAL | On September 26, 2022 and 3 minutes past midnight UTC, a magnitude 1.8 seismic wave struck the Baltic Sea. Finnish and Norwegian researchers placed the epicenter just southea…

Lise Alves (2023-07-01). World Report] Widespread high mercury levels found in fish eaten in Brazil. thelancet.com Both rural and urban populations in Brazil's Amazon region are at risk from contamination linked to mining activities. Lise Alves reports from Sao Paulo.

Anya Parampil (2023-06-30). All Aboard the Gravy Train: An Independent Audit of US Funding for Ukraine. orinocotribune.com By Heather Kaiser, Anya Parampil and Max Blumenthal — Jun 27, 2023 | In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington's spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. | During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization's push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine. | "We are inv…

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