(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, …
(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.]…
(2023-04-08). CA Climate activists protest approval of hundreds of neighborhood oil permits this year. indybay.org
(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 …
(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. |
(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.
(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, …
(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.]…
(2023-04-08). CA Climate activists protest approval of hundreds of neighborhood oil permits this year. indybay.org
(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 …
(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. |
(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.
(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…
(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 …
(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.
(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…