Daily Archives: June 2, 2023

2023-06-02: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-06-02). Hundreds of Amazon workers walk out at company's Seattle, Washington headquarters. wsws.org Amazon staff were protesting the company's forced return to in-person work amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic and its lack of genuine policies toward climate change.

Staff (2023-06-02). Headlines for June 2, 2023. democracynow.org Senate Approves Debt Deal Limiting Domestic Spending and Rolling Back Climate Protections, Senate Votes to Rescind Biden's Student Debt Relief Plan, Russia Fires More Missiles at Kyiv Amid Fresh Cross-Border Attacks from Ukraine, U.N. Warns Foundering Black Sea Grain Deal Could Exacerbate Food Crisis, Zelensky Presses EU and NATO to Grant Ukraine Membership; China Calls for Peace Talks, Protesters Disrupt Arms Convention as Canadian Defense Minister Touts Cybersecurity Plans, Rights Groups Slam "Sham Trial" for Iranian Journalists Who Helped Expose Death of Mahsa Amini, Workers Protest Florida&#…

Azeezah Kanji (2023-06-02). Ecofascism Is a Rising Threat. We Should Take Modi's Ascendance as a Warning. truthout.org As the walls of global climate apartheid solidify, the barriers to climate refugees intensify, and "ecofascist" mass killings multiply, the enduring acceptability of fascist politics is disturbingly apparent in the amazing reincarnation of India's far right Hindu nationalist (Hindutva) regime on the world stage. Less than 20 years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and company were shunned… |

SCCPVFF (2023-06-02). Saturday 6/10: Sacramento: It's a Climate Emergency, Act Like It! Protest at Capitol. indybay.org California State Capitol – West Steps | 315 10th Street | Sacramento, CA 95814…

Adam McKay (2023-06-01). Adam McKay: It's not too late to demand a sane government response to climate change. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in The hot, pissed off, oil-caked cat is now out of the bag. | We will likely cross 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming beyond preindustrial levels in the next two to four years. This is the temperature at which scientists have warned, for quite some time, serious destabilization may occur. While global temperatures are usually measured as the longer-term trend line rath…

Brandon Wu (2023-06-01). Parts of the U.S. are becoming uninsurable due to climate change. actionaidusa.org One of the bigger stories of this past weekend came with the bland heading "California New Business Update" — State Farm, the biggest homeowner insurance company in California, is no longer accepting new homeowner or property insurance applications from anyone in California. The reasons? Rising construction costs, "rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-06-01). Irish government proposes culling 200,000 cows to meet climate targets. expose-news.com An internal document, a Department of Agriculture briefing paper, reveals that a ‚Ǩ200m budget is needed to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years to meet climate goals — that's 195,000 …

Chloe DS (2023-06-01). Malaysia: Building solidarity in a time of climate crisis. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Chloe DS spoke to Cheong Huei Ting, Central Committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and Coordinator of the PSM's Environmental and Climate Crisis Bureau ahead of her participation in the Ecosocialism 2023 Conference in July in Naarm/Melbourne.

Jim McIlroy (2023-06-01). Human chain protests NAB loans to fossil fuel industry. greenleft.org.au More than 100 climate activists formed a human chain outside the National Australia Bank in Gadi/Sydney and a similar number in Meanjin/Brisbane, protesting the bank's funding of coal mining projects. Jim McIlroy and Alex Bainbridge report.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-06-02). We shouldn't demonise cows for burping and farting; we should be thanking them. expose-news.com The calculation the IPCC uses to guesstimate the global warming effect of greenhouse gases is theoretical and does not reflect reality. No new carbon is made. It is recycled. And methane from …

Staff (2023-06-02). Rep. Ro Khanna: Avoiding Default Was Necessary, But Debt Deal Was Passed at Expense of "Most Vulnerable" democracynow.org After a contentious battle with the Republican House majority, President Biden and Congress have agreed on a bipartisan deal suspending the debt ceiling until January 1, 2025. Among other concessions to Republicans, the deal caps domestic spending below the current rate of inflation, allows for larger increases to the military budget, implements new work requirements for social programs and fast-tracks the approval and construction of the controversial 300-plus-mile-long fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline through West Virginia and Virginia. Our guest, California Congressmember Ro Khanna, is among a number of pr…

Global Research News (2023-06-02). Selected Articles: "DNA Contamination" in Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Vials. globalresearch.ca

Dr. William Makis (2023-06-01). "DNA Contamination" in Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Vials. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-06-02). A.I. Could Save Humankind From Extinction — Here's How. leecamp.com

Kenny Stancil (2023-06-01). Experts Urge Action to Mitigate 'Risk of Extinction From AI'. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-06-01). Headlines for June 1, 2023. democracynow.org House Approves Debt Ceiling Deal Slammed by Progressives as "Extortion" , 19 Killed, 100+ Injured as Shells Fall on Market Near Sudan's Capital, U.S. to Send Additional $300 Million in Weapons to Ukraine, Failed North Korean Rocket Launch Triggers Evacuation Alert in Seoul, Protests Mount over Planned Release of Radioactive Water from Fukushima Plant into Pacific, Tennessee Woman Is Left Infertile After She's Denied Abortion Care, Georgia Police Arrest 3 Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters, Danny Masterson Found Guilty of Raping Women He Met Through Church of Scientology, NASA…

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