CounterSpin (2023-08-04). Teddy Ostrow on UPS/Teamsters Agreement, Matthew Cunningham-Cook on GOP Climate Sabotage. fair.org 
CounterSpin230804.mp3 Washington Post ( This week on CounterSpin: As contract negotiations went on between UPS and the Teamsters, against a backdrop of a country ever more reliant on package deliveries and the people who deliver them, the New York Times offered readers a lesson in almost-but-not-quite subtext, with a
Patricia Harrity (2023-08-04). Next On the Agenda Towards Totalitarianism…..Climate Lockdowns! expose-news.com As early as February 2020 The Lancet published a review of 24 studies documenting the impact of lockdowns. The study concluded that enforced separation from loved ones, the loss of freedom, etc can create dramatic …
greenleft.org.au (2023-08-04). Climate conference slams Labor for supporting fossil fuel industry. greenleft.org.au 
Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-08-04). Caribbean to face high temperatures in the coming months. plenglish.com Bridgetown, Aug 4 (Prensa Latina) The Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) warned that temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans might remain well above their usual average for the next three months.
Thom Hartmann (2023-08-04). Is Earth close to 'the great dying'? nationofchange.org The climate emergency is here. We can't wait any longer for major and dramatic worldwide action.
Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-08-04). Climate Instability Worldwide: Does the US Military "Own the Weather"? "Weaponizing the Weather" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, "offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…
Editor (2023-08-04). A Brief Neocolonial History of the Five UN Security Council Permanent Members. scheerpost.com 
By John P. Ruehl / AlterNet Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945. One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states. Yet since 1945, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Soviet Union/Russia, France, …
Editor (2023-08-03). Honest Government ad | COP31 Australia & the Pacific. mronline.org 
The Australien Government made an ad about its bid to host the 2026 UN Climate Summit (COP31) with the Pacific, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Farhana Sultana (2023-08-03). Fossil Fuel Exec Is Slated to Lead COP28. We Must Decolonize Climate Governance. truthout.org As the world gears up for the upcoming 28th United Nations Conference of Parties on climate change (COP28), the appointment of a fossil fuel executive as its head has sparked widespread criticism. Host countries of COP conferences appoint the president, and COP28 host United Arab Emirates appointed its state oil company head to the presidency. Given the fossil fuel industry's role in worsening… |
Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. (2023-08-03). A New Idea For New Union Organizing. popularresistance.org Why is it that unions, the only things that exist to do new union organizing, do not organize enough new union members? Unions will tell you that there are many reasons‚Äâ—‚Äâhostile labor laws, corporate union-busting, difficult political climates. There is some truth to all of these explanations, but they are also a bit like stopping and sitting down while a wild dog is chasing you, because running is tiring. Sure it is, but that's not much consolation when you're dead. There always have been, and always will be, political and corporate forces hostile to unions. That does…
Johanna Kichton (2023-08-03). Homes Guarantee Celebrates Tenant Movement Closing in on Federal Rent Regulation. peoplesaction.org Tenants Organized 2.4K Comments Demanding Federal Rent Control With Support from Leading Economists, Academics, Climate Researchers, and Electeds WASHINGTON, D.C. — People's Action's Homes Guarantee campaign today celebrated the strength of the tenant movement by releasing letters that make clear that federal tenant protections are common-sense policy with broad support from experts and directly impacted …
Pavel López Lazo (2023-08-03). Conflicts, climate crisis aggravate food insecurity — UN. plenglish.com United Nations, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Conflicts are key factors in hunger and food insecurity aggravated by climate and economic crises, the UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator Reena Ghelani said. She said that while the threat of famine — people starving slowly to death — must be a red line, amid the multiple challenges the world is facing today, the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion in 2022 — the highest recorded in recent years.
Sharon Zhang (2023-08-03). Sanders: It's Time for DOJ to Treat Fossil Fuel Giants Like the Liars They Are. truthout.org As temperatures reach over 100 degrees in South America in the middle of winter, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is calling for federal officials to finally take the fossil fuel industry's long-standing lies about the climate crisis seriously and prosecute the industry the same way the Justice Department prosecuted Big Tobacco decades ago. In an op-ed published by MSNBC on Thursday… |
WSWS (2023-08-03). The Canadian forest fires and global climate change: a conversation with forest fire scientist Dr. Ellen Whitman. wsws.org The WSWS had the opportunity to speak to Canadian forest fire scientist, Dr. Ellen Whitman, on the recent unprecedented fires raging across the Canadian boreal forests.
Tom Engelhardt (2023-08-03). We're Not Living in an Era of Global Warming, But a Time of Global Boiling. truthout.org Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we're living it right now, not in the next century, the next decade, or even next year. You couldn't miss it — at least so you might think — if you were living in the sweltering Southwest; especially in broiling, record-setting Phoenix with 30 straight days of… |
Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-08-03). Venezuela: Gov't Presents Plan to Clean Up Oil-Contaminated Maracaibo Lake. venezuelanalysis.com A team of experts is working alongside the community to decontaminate Maracaibo Lake from waste, microalgae and oil leaking from corroded pipelines.
Colin Todhunter (2023-08-03). Science and Public Interest Halt the Push for GM Crops in India: Approval by Contamination? globalresearch.ca
No Nukes Action (2023-08-04). Friday 8/11: Japan PM: No Dumping Of 1.3 Million Tons Of Radioactive Water into Pacifica At Fukushima. indybay.org Japanese Consulate | 275 Battery St/California St. | San Francisco…
Sharon Zhang (2023-08-03). Sanders: It's Time for DOJ to Treat Fossil Fuel Giants Like the Liars They Are. truthout.org As temperatures reach over 100 degrees in South America in the middle of winter, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is calling for federal officials to finally take the fossil fuel industry's long-standing lies about the climate crisis seriously and prosecute the industry the same way the Justice Department prosecuted Big Tobacco decades ago. In an op-ed published by MSNBC on Thursday… |
WSWS (2023-08-03). The Canadian forest fires and global climate change: a conversation with forest fire scientist Dr. Ellen Whitman. wsws.org The WSWS had the opportunity to speak to Canadian forest fire scientist, Dr. Ellen Whitman, on the recent unprecedented fires raging across the Canadian boreal forests.
Tom Engelhardt (2023-08-03). We're Not Living in an Era of Global Warming, But a Time of Global Boiling. truthout.org Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we're living it right now, not in the next century, the next decade, or even next year. You couldn't miss it — at least so you might think — if you were living in the sweltering Southwest; especially in broiling, record-setting Phoenix with 30 straight days of… |
Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-08-03). Venezuela: Gov't Presents Plan to Clean Up Oil-Contaminated Maracaibo Lake. venezuelanalysis.com A team of experts is working alongside the community to decontaminate Maracaibo Lake from waste, microalgae and oil leaking from corroded pipelines.
Colin Todhunter (2023-08-03). Science and Public Interest Halt the Push for GM Crops in India: Approval by Contamination? globalresearch.ca
No Nukes Action (2023-08-04). Friday 8/11: Japan PM: No Dumping Of 1.3 Million Tons Of Radioactive Water into Pacifica At Fukushima. indybay.org Japanese Consulate | 275 Battery St/California St. | San Francisco…
Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-08-04). FAO works with Cuba to prevent food losses. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 4 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) informed on Friday that it is collaborating with Cuba to prevent and reduce food loss and waste.
Mental health challenges are rising alongside temperatures. Research suggests that taking action can help.
Preventing extinction of species is a major concern of many countries in the world today. Legislation to accomplish this is usually based on an endangered species list. Such a list should include any animal or plant species that has been deemed likely to go extinct in a few generations. Listing would normally trigger protective actions to …