David Swanson (2022-02-23). Don't Overlook NATO's Successes. warisacrime.org By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 22, 2022 I'm hearing a lot of talk about U.S. and NATO failures, so I want to call attention to the successes. Feel free to cheer wildly for each one. Germany has canceled a Russian pipeline and will be destroying the Earth with more U.S. fossil fuels, and …

Editor (2022-02-23). To eradicate global poverty and cut global carbon emissions, rich nations must change their consumption patterns. mronline.org Sometimes the aching injustice of human-caused climate change hits you square between the eyes. A new fact rears up that is potent, emotive and incontrovertible.

Staff (2022-02-23). Headlines for February 23, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. Imposes Sanctions, Ukraine Calls for Stronger Action After Russian Recognition of Breakaway Areas, Jury Finds Ahmaud Arbery's 3 Murderers Guilty of Federal Hate Crimes, Trial for Ex-Cop Brett Hankison, Who Shot into Breonna Taylor's Home During Fatal Raid, Starts in KY, U.N. Report Warns of Climate Disaster-Fueled "Global Wildfire Crisis", Mining Companies, Foreign Investors Driving Destruction of Amazon, Violation of Indigenous Rights, Hong Kong to Conduct Mass COVID Testing on Entire Population; U.K. Removes All Pandemic Restrictions, Israeli Forces Kill 14-Year-Old Palestinian; Isr…

Staff (2022-02-22). Putin Recognizes Ukraine Separatists; Khrushchev's Great-Granddaughter Says War Can Still Be Avoided. democracynow.org Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, drawing sharp rebukes from the U.S. and other Western countries that have warned for weeks of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration issued new sanctions, and Germany has stopped the certification of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in an attempt to quash the country's dependence on Russian natural gas. We speak with Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at The New School, who says she remains skeptical that Russia will launch an all-out war against Ukraine. She also s…

sputniknews (2022-02-22). German Chancellor Scholz Says He is Suspending Nord Stream 2 Certification. sputniknews.com The German Federal Grid Agency temporarily suspended the certification of Nord Stream 2 late last year, saying it would be impossible to approve the pipeline until the German-based portion of the infrastructure project and its employees were transferred to German jurisdiction.

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-22). Frederic Manning: The Trenches. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Frederic Manning: War poems ==== Frederic ManningThe Trenches Endless lanes sunken in the clay,Bays, and traverses, fringed with wasted herbage,Seed-pods of blue scabious, and some lingering blooms;And the sky, seen as from a well,Brilliant with frosty stars.We stumble, cursing, on the …

sputniknews (2022-02-22). German Chancellor Scholz Says He is Suspending Nord Stream 2 Certification. sputniknews.com The German Federal Grid Agency temporarily suspended the certification of Nord Stream 2 late last year, saying it would be impossible to approve the pipeline until the German-based portion of the infrastructure project and its employees were transferred to German jurisdiction.

Kyle Anzalone (2022-02-21). Ukrainian Civilians Train for War as Ceasefire Violations Increase. news.antiwar.com Fighting has reignited in eastern Ukraine. Hundreds of violations of the Minsk Protocol have been recorded in the last week, with two Ukrainian soldiers killed and four injured on Saturday. A school and pipeline were among the infrastructure that was damaged. Kiev alleges the fighting was started by the separatists in the Donbas region. Russia …

Paul Haeder (2022-02-21). There will be blood, and, yes, we do need stinkin' badges. dissidentvoice.org This is a little soft-shoe pissed off blathering from me, so apologies up front. No big news on the Ukraine Invasion front, or the Gates Owning All the Farms front, or the Climate-Wall Street-Chronic Illness front. Nothing related to the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) front. Just plain old burnt toast and spilled milk from a radical who …

_____ (2022-02-21). A Growing Wave Of Litigation Spurs Climate Action. popularresistance.org In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged "inadequate" environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. In South Africa, three civil society organizations launched a case alleging that the government's plans to obtain new coal power threaten various constitutional rights. | These are just a handful of the hu…

Chris McGreal (2022-02-21). Students Say Yale, Stanford and MIT's Fossil Fuel Investments Are Illegal. truthout.org Students at five leading universities have filed legal complaints accusing their colleges of breaking a little-known law by investing in the fossil fuel companies responsible for the climate emergency. | The students from Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt wrote to the attorneys general of their respective states on Wednesday asking authorities to investigate breaches of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, which requires universities to invest in a manner consiste…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-21). 'Politics as Usual' Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War). transcend.org 17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity's greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)…

J.T.S. (2022-02-21). PG&E Awarded Safety Certificate After Causing Years of Environmental Catastrophes. indybay.org After serving a five-year criminal probation sentence for negligent practices that led to a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno in 2010, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has been awarded a safety certificate from the government of California.

Staff (2022-02-21). Waste dumped illegally returned to UK. rt.com Sri Lanka dispatched the last shipment of thousands of tons of "hazardous cargo" to their country of origin on Monday | Sri Lankan officials shipped the final batch of illegally imported waste back to the UK on Monday. The containers had been sent from Britain to the South Asian nation claiming to contain "used mattresses, carpets and rugs," when they were actually filled with unwanted biowaste. | The 45 containers, containing thousands of tons of the illegally imported material, were loaded onto a ship at Colombo port. The country's customs official has announced the removal of the last portion of the "hazard…