Monthly Archives: April 2023

2023-04-08: News Headlines

Clean Energy Wire (2023-04-08). Environmental NGO wins greenwashing lawsuit against French Oil Co. TotalEnergies SE. juancole.com By Carolina Kyllmann | — ( Clean Energy Wire ) — Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over "climate-neutral" and "CO2-compensated" heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had sued on the basis that TotalEnergies' Thermoplus heating oil was advertised to consumers in a way that violated consumer protection law, …

Craig Louis Stehr (2023-04-08). Earth First!er Andy Caffrey INFORMATIONAL: Global Climate Destabilization. [Orig. Huffman]. indybay.org Forward of email fr. Earth First!er Andy Caffrey chock full of information re: global climate destabilization. [The original message was sent to Congressman Jared Huffman of CA District 2.]…

Dan Bacher (2023-04-08). CA Climate activists protest approval of hundreds of neighborhood oil permits this year. indybay.org

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-04-07). Coal phaseout must move 4.5 times more quickly to avoid climate chaos, report warns. peoplesworld.org As operating coal power plants were retired last year and scheduled projects canceled, the number of plants decreased in developing and developed countries, except China, according to the ninth annual global survey of the coal plant pipeline by Global Energy Monitor, a press release from Global Energy Monitor said. However, in order for the world to be on track to phase out …

David Klein (2023-04-07). Sabotaging Oil and Gas Infrastructure Is an Act of Climate Heroism. truthout.org The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced. |

Ian Angus (2023-04-07). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — March 2023. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books on science, society and socialism.

Clean Energy Wire (2023-04-08). Environmental NGO wins greenwashing lawsuit against French Oil Co. TotalEnergies SE. juancole.com By Carolina Kyllmann | — ( Clean Energy Wire ) — Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over "climate-neutral" and "CO2-compensated" heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had sued on the basis that TotalEnergies' Thermoplus heating oil was advertised to consumers in a way that violated consumer protection law, …

Craig Louis Stehr (2023-04-08). Earth First!er Andy Caffrey INFORMATIONAL: Global Climate Destabilization. [Orig. Huffman]. indybay.org Forward of email fr. Earth First!er Andy Caffrey chock full of information re: global climate destabilization. [The original message was sent to Congressman Jared Huffman of CA District 2.]…

Dan Bacher (2023-04-08). CA Climate activists protest approval of hundreds of neighborhood oil permits this year. indybay.org

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-04-07). Coal phaseout must move 4.5 times more quickly to avoid climate chaos, report warns. peoplesworld.org As operating coal power plants were retired last year and scheduled projects canceled, the number of plants decreased in developing and developed countries, except China, according to the ninth annual global survey of the coal plant pipeline by Global Energy Monitor, a press release from Global Energy Monitor said. However, in order for the world to be on track to phase out …

David Klein (2023-04-07). Sabotaging Oil and Gas Infrastructure Is an Act of Climate Heroism. truthout.org The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced. |

Ian Angus (2023-04-07). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — March 2023. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books on science, society and socialism.

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-04-07). Drought Profiteers: Wall Street Billionaires Snatch Up America's Water. popularresistance.org It is time to stop calling the financial industry executives who are buying up freshwater "investors" or "hedge fund managers" and instead call them "drought profiteers." | I mean, you can also call them vultures and parasites. They all apply quite well. Come up with your own names for them. Get creative with it. Really listen to your heart. | Water. We all need it to survive. It's the main ingredient in alcohol. Just think of how many more people would be killed each year if we didn't have alcohol to take the edge off. But here's the problem: as the climate crisis causes drought around the world, the richest of…

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …

ecns.cn (2023-04-07). Culprit behind Nord Stream sabotage still unclear: Sweden's prosecutor. ecns.cn Sweden's public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist has said on Thursday that due to the "complex" nature of the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, the investigation has yet to determine who is responsible.

Seymour Hersh. (2023-04-07). Seymour Hersh: The Nord Stream Ghost Ship. popularresistance.org America's Central Intelligence Agency is constantly running covert operations around the world, and all must have a cover story in case things go badly, as they often do. It is just as important to have an explanation when things go well, as they did in the Baltic Sea last fall. Within weeks of my report that Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the agency produced a cover story and found willing takers in the New York Times and two major German publications. | By creating a story of deep sea divers and a crew who did not exist, the agency was following protocol, and the story would hav…

_____ (2023-04-08). Kosovo Liberation Army Leader Hashim Thaci on Trial for War Crimes. strategic-culture.org By Peter SCHWARZ | From March 24 to June 9, 1999, NATO bombed Serbia for 77 days. It was the first major war on European soil since the Second World War—even this fact is suppressed and denied today in view of the war in Ukraine. | War propaganda was in full swing at the time: NATO was laying waste to Serbian cities in order to defend "human rights" and to stop the "ethnic cleansing" Serbia was accused of carrying out in Kosovo. Greens, liberals and pseudo-left groups, who only a few weeks before had been invoking pacifism, eagerly took up this propaganda and switched to the war camp with flying colours. In…

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2023-04-07: News Headlines

Craig Louis Stehr (2023-04-07). Earth First!er Andy Caffrey INFORMATIONAL: Global Climate Destabilization. [Orig. Huffman]. indybay.org Forward of email fr. Earth First!er Andy Caffrey chock full of information re: global climate destabilization. [The original message was sent to Congressman Jared Huffman of CA District 2.]…

Dan Bacher (2023-04-07). CA Climate activists protest approval of hundreds of neighborhood oil permits this year. indybay.org

Ian Angus (2023-04-07). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — March 2023. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books on science, society and socialism.

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-04-07). Coal phaseout must move 4.5 times more quickly to avoid climate chaos, report warns. peoplesworld.org As operating coal power plants were retired last year and scheduled projects canceled, the number of plants decreased in developing and developed countries, except China, according to the ninth annual global survey of the coal plant pipeline by Global Energy Monitor, a press release from Global Energy Monitor said. However, in order for the world to be on track to phase out …

Bella Piacente, The New School Free Press. (2023-04-06). What You Don't Know About The Willow Project. popularresistance.org On March 13, 2023, President Biden approved the Willow project, an oil drilling venture by the large crude oil producer, ConocoPhillips, occurring on Alaska's North Slope. The proposed drilling area is believed to hold 600 million barrels of oil, which will be extracted from three different drill pads. While there is no exact date for the project to begin, construction is set to commence at any time and will continue for decades. | The detrimental climate impact is by far the project's most severe effect. However, the media is ignoring a crucial factor: the drill site sits next to the Nuiqsut tribe, an Inupiaq co…

Craig Louis Stehr (2023-04-07). Earth First!er Andy Caffrey INFORMATIONAL: Global Climate Destabilization. [Orig. Huffman]. indybay.org Forward of email fr. Earth First!er Andy Caffrey chock full of information re: global climate destabilization. [The original message was sent to Congressman Jared Huffman of CA District 2.]…

Dan Bacher (2023-04-07). CA Climate activists protest approval of hundreds of neighborhood oil permits this year. indybay.org

Ian Angus (2023-04-07). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — March 2023. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books on science, society and socialism.

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-04-07). Coal phaseout must move 4.5 times more quickly to avoid climate chaos, report warns. peoplesworld.org As operating coal power plants were retired last year and scheduled projects canceled, the number of plants decreased in developing and developed countries, except China, according to the ninth annual global survey of the coal plant pipeline by Global Energy Monitor, a press release from Global Energy Monitor said. However, in order for the world to be on track to phase out …

Bella Piacente, The New School Free Press. (2023-04-06). What You Don't Know About The Willow Project. popularresistance.org On March 13, 2023, President Biden approved the Willow project, an oil drilling venture by the large crude oil producer, ConocoPhillips, occurring on Alaska's North Slope. The proposed drilling area is believed to hold 600 million barrels of oil, which will be extracted from three different drill pads. While there is no exact date for the project to begin, construction is set to commence at any time and will continue for decades. | The detrimental climate impact is by far the project's most severe effect. However, the media is ignoring a crucial factor: the drill site sits next to the Nuiqsut tribe, an Inupiaq co…

David Barsamian (2023-04-06). Noam Chomsky: There Are Signs of Hope Amid Climate Crisis, Bank Failures and War. truthout.org [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the climate crisis. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said… |

Julia Rock (2023-04-06). Hochul is helping her fossil fuel donors gut key climate law. mronline.org After scoring half a million from oil and gas interests, New York's Democratic governor wants to allow utilities to burn fossil fuels for decades longer than currently permitted.

Tom Athanasiou, Resilience. (2023-04-06). The Planet Will Warm Past 1.5 ∞C — What Now? popularresistance.org The only way of ensuring that the overshoot is temporary is to decisively defeat the fossil fuel cartel. | The 1.5 ∞C temperature target is difficult to honestly and openly discuss. Within the climate movement, it has become a locus of anguish, confusion, and even despair. Long a symbol of mobilization and hope, 1.5 ∞ has become central to both activist campaigns and scientific analysis. Yet it's now clear that the planet will almost certainly warm more than 1.5 ∞C. | This is a rough prospect. It will likely condemn countless communities, many of them largely innocent of responsibility for the c…

ecns.cn (2023-04-07). Culprit behind Nord Stream sabotage still unclear: Sweden's prosecutor. ecns.cn Sweden's public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist has said on Thursday that due to the "complex" nature of the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, the investigation has yet to determine who is responsible.

Seymour Hersh. (2023-04-07). Seymour Hersh: The Nord Stream Ghost Ship. popularresistance.org America's Central Intelligence Agency is constantly running covert operations around the world, and all must have a cover story in case things go badly, as they often do. It is just as important to have an explanation when things go well, as they did in the Baltic Sea last fall. Within weeks of my report that Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the agency produced a cover story and found willing takers in the New York Times and two major German publications. | By creating a story of deep sea divers and a crew who did not exist, the agency was following protocol, and the story would hav…

Anonymous765 (2023-04-06). Ukrainian Pilots Target Druzhba Pipeline. southfront.org |

Ambrose Sylvan (2023-04-06). Flipping the Bird Site: How Elon Musk's Twitter Builds a Pipeline from the Alt-Right to Salafi Extremists. covertactionmagazine.com Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter for $44 billion has been called many things. Risky. A victory for free speech. A narcissistic ego trip. A complete disaster. The mistake of a very divorced man. True or false, these criticisms are superficial. What is the method behind Elon's madness? Getting the Gang Back Together Based on moves …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-06). Greek workers intensify protests against further privatization of water utilities. peoplesdispatch.org On March 21, the Greek parliament passed a bill to revamp the Energy Regulatory Authority as the Waste, Energy, and Water Regulatory Authority, and expand its scope to include water and urban services. Unions and the communist party say that this will pave the way for further privatization…

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