Maduro: Venezuela Sitting on 2nd Biggest Gold Reserve on Earth
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-11-05
President Nicolas Maduro described the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela as "crazy" and "criminal."
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14133

Earth's Ozone Layer Is Healing, Says UN
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-11-05
WASHINGTON — Earth's protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said. | The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientist raised the alarm and ozone-depleting chemicals were phased out worldwide. | As a result, the upper ozone layer above the Northern Hemisphere should be completely repaired in the 2030s and the gaping Antarctic ozone hole should disappear in the 2060s, according to a scientific assessment released Monday at a conference in Quito, Ecuador. The Southern Hemisphere lags a bit and its ozone layer shou…
truthdig.com/articles/earths-ozone-layer-is-healing-says-un/

Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point
Daniel Aldana Cohen | zcomm.org | 2018-11-05
Climate change is the story of people fighting over how to live.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/apocalyptic-climate-reporting-completely-misses-the-point/

Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP's Climate Change Denial
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-05
Just weeks after the United Nations warned that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe, we speak with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. He says, "We have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form."
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/5/noam_chomsky_the_future_of_organized

Struggle and Achievement
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2018-11-05
The great linguist and political critic remains hopeful that we can overcome global warming and other threats…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/struggle-and-achievement/

Six states where voters could counter Trump's environmental rollbacks
Mark Olalde | peoplesworld.org | 2018-11-05
This story is reposted here from Grist.org. This story was originally co-published by the Center for Public Integrity and Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Voters in six Western states — Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and Washington — will head to the polls November 6 with the chance to decide on hotly contested, statewide ballot measures …
peoplesworld.org/article/six-states-where-voters-could-counter-trumps-environmental-rollbacks/

Australian minister used Aboriginal funds to fight Aboriginal land claims
WGAR News | indybay.org | 2018-11-05
The peak organisation representing the rights of Australian indigenous peoples seeks answers from Nigel Scullion, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, for allocating Indigenous Advancement Strategy funds to industry groups to oppose land rights claims.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/04/18818754.php

Noam Chomsky: The Future of Human Life Is at Risk, Thanks to Climate Denial
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-11-05
Just weeks after the United Nations warned that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe, we speak with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. He says, "We have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form." | TRANSCRIPT: | AMY GOODMAN: Noam, we want to turn to an issue that you have written about, that so many are so deeply concerned about, that hardly gets any play in this country, even in this critical midterm election. It's the issue of clima…
truthout.org/video/noam-chomsky-the-future-of-human-life-is-at-risk-thanks-to-climate-denial/

Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal
Robert Hunziker | zcomm.org | 2018-11-04
On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: "For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse." According to the scientists, now is the time to act as a planetary emergency is already upon us. Nearly Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/rebellious-scientists-issue-urgent-appeal/

Environmental activists rebel against government's climate inaction
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-11-03
15 arrested as hundreds take part in civil disobedience outside Parliament | Source…
mronline.org/2018/11/03/environmental-activists-rebel-against-governments-climate-inaction/

Standing Rock Pitches Last-Ditch Fight for the Right to Vote in North Dakota
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2018-11-03
To find Honorata Defender's home on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, mention her name to whoever you can find walking down the main street of her tiny town. They'll tell you to turn when you get to the powwow grounds and to take the paved road, rather than the gravel one. Drive until you see a hill, and look for her car. Her house has no number on it, and mail is not delivered there; it goes to a P.O. box instead. | As Defender put it, "We've never believed that a person can own land; it's the land that owns us." She added, "The concept of an address wasn't a big deal." | Defender was working at her job as a…
theintercept.com/2018/11/03/native-americans-north-dakota-voter-id-law/

Geoengineering and environmental capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-11-02
If, as history shows, fantasies of weather and climate control have chiefly served commercial and military interests, why should we expect the future to be different? –James Fleming, Fixing the Sky | Source…
mronline.org/2018/11/02/geoengineering-and-environmental-capitalism-2/

Five new books for ecosocialists
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-02
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at five new books for ecosocialists. Inclusion does not necessarily indicate agreement with a book's contents. | *** | Can The Working Class Change The World? | By Michael D Yates | Monthly Review Press, 2018 | Some radicals deny that a working class in the sense meant by Karl Marx even exists — or, if it does, that it is so divided by gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and location that it will never be a radical force for change. | Michael Yates has no illus…
greenleft.org.au/content/five-new-books-ecosocialists-0

Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point
Daniel Aldana Cohen | thenation.com | 2018-11-02
Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point…
thenation.com/article/mainstream-media-un-climate-report-analysis/

Brazilian social leader: 'We defeated the military dictatorship, we'll defeat Bolsonaro'
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-02
Shockwaves were sent around the world when fascist candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 55% in the second round in Brazil's presidential elections on October 28, defeating Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party (PT). | Infamous for his support for torture and military dictatorship as well as extreme bigotry towards women, the LGBTI community and indigenous peoples, millions in Brazil and globally were horrified and frightened. Not so investors, with Brazil's stock market soaring to new highs on the news of the win by a candidate who has pledged to open up all of Brazil — including ecologically crucial sections of th…
greenleft.org.au/content/brazilian-social-leader-we-defeated-military-dictatorship-well-defeat-bolsonaro

Warehousing Immigrant Children in the Texas Desert
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-11-01
The Tornillo detention camp represents a major shift in the policy and practice of putting the best interests of the child first. | Since June, the federal government has been operating a massive tent city in the West Texas desert to detain immigrant children who have traveled to the United States seeking protection from persecution and abuse in their home countries. | Last week, I visited the Tornillo detention camp with colleagues from the ACLU of Texas. There are currently over 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant kids at Tornillo, most from Central America, who were transferred from long-term shelter placements. Th…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/warehousing-immigrant-children-texas-desert

Victorian Socialists push new jobs, real action on climate change
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-01
"If climate change is the great moral issue of our time, as one former prime minister famously said, then governments have failed miserably", Victorian Socialists candidate Tim Gooden told Green Left Weekly. | Gooden, who is standing in the November 24 state elections for the Legislative Council electorate of Western Victoria Region, said that an urgent and practical response to the climate crisis has been sorely lacking at both the national and state levels. | "No government has a clear plan to tackle climate change", Gooden said. "[Victoria's] Daniel Andrews government has had to be pushed, largely by grassroot…
greenleft.org.au/content/victorian-socialists-push-new-jobs-real-action-climate-change

Employees Who Have Babies Are Still Getting the Axe
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-31
Forty years after Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, discrimination against pregnant and breastfeeding workers remains rampant. | Forty years ago, working women in the United States won the legal protection to become working mothers. On Oct. 31, 1978, Congress enacted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, making it illegal for employers to deny a woman a job — or promotion, or higher pay, or any other opportunity — because she is pregnant. | The statute had an immediate, dramatic impact on women's ability to fully participate in the workforce. Although on-the-job sex discrimination had bee…
aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/pregnancy-and-parenting-discrimination/employees-who-have-babies-are-still

Trump Plays Pocahontas Card Again. . . And Takes the Trick!
Mark Anthony Rolo | progressive.org | 2018-10-29
When I hear people like the Cherokee Nation's Hoskins Jr. bashing Warren for her claim, it occurs to me that Trump's racism has found a footing in tribal politics.
progressive.org/dispatches/trump-plays-the-pocahontas-card-181029/

Nuclear Power & Climate
Don Fitz | zcomm.org | 2018-10-18
The great environmental challenge of our time is to understand that the many sources of biodestruction are interconnected and must be confronted simultaneously, rather than disparaging one danger to focus on another…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/nuclear-power-climate/