Daily Archives: June 27, 2023

2023-06-27: News Headlines

Ingar Solty (2023-06-27). Car Plants Are Making Medical Equipment – And Things Should Stay That Way. indybay.org The time has come for progressive nationalization and socialization. This includes the financial sector, because only if we gain control over the financing of socially necessary areas of production will it be possible to ensure that we as a society can plan our future and the future of our finite planet democratically and thus avert the impending climate catastrophe.

Atilio Borón (2023-06-27). Habermas and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.

Anonymous103 (2023-06-27). John Kerry Skewered By French TV Host After Condemning Putin Invasion: "Why Isn't Bush Judged In The Same Way?" southfront.org Originally published by ZeroHedge John Kerry, who is Biden's special presidential envoy for climate, came up against rare pushback when he…

Johanna Kichton (2023-06-27). People's Action Hosts Actions Against Citigroup Chairman John Dugan to Demand the Bank Stop Funding Fossil Fuels. peoplesaction.org Citigroup Funds Climate Chaos as the World's Second Biggest Funder of Fossil Fuels WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today hosted a two-part protest action against Citigroup Board Chairman John Dugan to demand Citigroup stop funding fossil fuel projects. Citigroup is the world's second biggest funder of fossil fuels and the biggest funder of coal in the United …

Alice Jennings (2023-06-27). Let's Carry on Grace Lee Boggs's Revolutionary Legacy by Continuing Her Struggle. truthout.org To celebrate Grace Lee Boggs — born on this day in 1915 — we should reflect on her concept of "living for change." While she built and strengthened a wide array of intersectional movements throughout her 100 years of life, the challenges facing radical visionaries have only grown more immense since Grace joined the ancestors. War, colonialism, exploitation and pandemics are bound up with climate… |

Andy Kroll (2023-06-27). We're Having a Violent Meltdown. tomdispatch.com Several times in recent weeks I've heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She's saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did. After all, we essentially hit the "snooze" button on the wakeup call from Hurricane Katrina 18 years ago; ditto the disastrous Hurricane Sandy seven years later, as well as the East Coast heat waves and West Coast wildfires of more recent years; or the startling…


Stan Cox (2023-06-27). Climate Disasters May Be Nudging Societies Toward Rising Violence and Cruelty. truthout.org Several times in recent weeks I've heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She's saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did. After all, we essentially hit the "snooze"… |

Rhoda Wilson (2023-06-26). Exceptional volumes of sea ice are a headache for climate alarmists. expose-news.com While corporate media reports that it's too late to save Arctic Sea ice, it seems the Arctic has other plans. Greenland's snow and ice gains are proving exceptional and cherry farmers in …

Editor (2023-06-26). Global warming and water privatization. mronline.org Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recently declared a state of emergency in the capital, Montevideo, due to water shortages.

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). Japan moves closer toward toxic water release plan. ecns.cn Japan went a step further on Monday toward its nuclear-contaminated water release plan, as Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, finished removing the heavy machinery used for digging an ocean tunnel.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-27). An Independent Audit of US Funding for Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Heather Kaiser, Anya Parampil, Max Blumenthal 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 seemingly wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist…

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). People becoming more green, survey finds. ecns.cn Children pose for a group photo at the Xianshanhu scenic area in Changxing county of Huzhou city, East China's Zhejiang province, June 23, 2023.in Germany and Japan."ÄÄ"ÄÄIn the catering sector, for example, each US citizen on average wastes 64 kilograms of food a year.


Heather Kaiser (2023-06-27). All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine. thegrayzone.com 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 seemingly wasteful, 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 involved …

Heather Kaiser (2023-06-27). All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine. thegrayzone.com 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 seemingly wasteful, 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 involved …

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