Anis Chowdhury (2021-12-09). Climate change: Adapt for the future, not the past. mronline.org Funding for developing countries to address global warming is grossly inadequate. Very little finance is for adaptation to climate change, the urgent need of countries most adversely affected. Also, adaptation needs to be forward-looking rather than only addressing accumulated problems.

Dan Collyns (2021-12-09). How are Peruvian indigenous highland communities promoting agrobiodiversity? america.cgtn.com See how Peruvian indigenous highland communities conserve some of the world's most important agrobiodiversity crops to adapt to climate change.

Moderator (2021-12-08). House Approves $778 Billion Military Budget. scheerpost.com By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams In bipartisan fashion, the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday passed a sprawling military policy bill that contains nearly twice as much funding on an annual basis as Democrats' flagship social spending and climate bill. That reality led Stephen Miles, executive director of Win Without War, to slam the $778 billion National …

Jason Hickel (2021-12-08). The age of imperialism is not over—but we can end it. mronline.org Capitalist accumulation has always depended on cheap labor and resources extracted from the Global South. To end this violence we need a post-capitalist transition—otherwise, as climate breakdown accelerates, the ceaseless search for profit will drive us further into barbarism.

_____ (2021-12-08). How to counter the growing threat of agent provocateurs. popularresistance.org As awareness of racial injustice, climate crises and sexist violence grow in multiple countries, activists are responding in greater and greater numbers. We have this in common with earlier periods in history that birthed large social movements: activists "upping the ante," increasing the power of their action. One-off protests become sustained campaigns, short actions like parades become long marches, a union's token stay-at-home becomes a prolonged strike, law-abiding demonstrators turn to civil disobedience. It's easy, however, to overlook a key activist vulnerability that accompanies these moments of increase…

Dean Baker (2021-12-08). NYT Hypes Coal Industry Line About Job Loss Due to Climate Change Measures. cepr.net The NYT should not be assisting the industry in its efforts to inflate jobs concerns in order to block action on global warming.

Jake Johnson (2021-12-08). House Passes $778 Billion Military Bill as Other Priorities Stall. truthout.org In bipartisan fashion, the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday passed a sprawling military policy bill that contains nearly twice as much funding on an annual basis as Democrats' flagship social spending and climate bill. | That reality led Stephen Miles, executive director of Win Without War, to slam the

Cindy Piester (2021-12-08). Veterans Target US Military's Outsized Impact on the Climate Crisis. zcomm.org With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint…

Robert Hunziker (2021-12-08). Japan's Upcoming Nuclear Waste Dump. dissidentvoice.org Nuclear waste is an interminable curse that eternally haunts the future of civilization for hundreds/thousands of years. The challenge of making nuclear power safer doesn't end after the power has been generated. Nuclear fuel remains dangerously radioactive for thousands of years after it is no longer useful in a commercial reactor.1 There are 440 nuclear …

Jason Hickel (2021-12-08). The age of imperialism is not over—but we can end it. mronline.org Capitalist accumulation has always depended on cheap labor and resources extracted from the Global South. To end this violence we need a post-capitalist transition—otherwise, as climate breakdown accelerates, the ceaseless search for profit will drive us further into barbarism.

Dean Baker (2021-12-08). NYT Hypes Coal Industry Line About Job Loss Due to Climate Change Measures. cepr.net The NYT should not be assisting the industry in its efforts to inflate jobs concerns in order to block action on global warming.

Cindy Piester (2021-12-08). Veterans Target US Military's Outsized Impact on the Climate Crisis. zcomm.org With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint…

Robert Hunziker (2021-12-08). Japan's Upcoming Nuclear Waste Dump. dissidentvoice.org Nuclear waste is an interminable curse that eternally haunts the future of civilization for hundreds/thousands of years. The challenge of making nuclear power safer doesn't end after the power has been generated. Nuclear fuel remains dangerously radioactive for thousands of years after it is no longer useful in a commercial reactor.1 There are 440 nuclear …

_____ (2021-12-07). US Empire Seizes UK's National Health Service. popularresistance.org One of the recent roles of the Parliamentary Healthcare Committee has been to reassure the British public that any claims regarding the 'Americanization' of the National Health Service (NHS) were wildly overstated, "creating a climate that risks blocking the joining up of services in the interests of patients." | In fact, the penetration of the healthcare system by the giant U.S. insurer UnitedHealth reveals the opposite to be true, with the full extent of its influence capable of surprising even seasoned NHS watchers. | The Health and Care Bill making its way through official channels simply reinforces this, wit…

Brittani Banks (2021-12-07). Why Poorer Nations Aren't Falling for Green-Washed Imperialism. independentmediainstitute.org Fighting global warming is not just about providing a path to net-zero carbon emissions for all countries. It is also about figuring out how best to meet the energy needs of people across the world while working toward net-zero emissions. If fossil fuels have to be given up, which has now become an urgent need …

Yasmine Sherif (2021-12-07). Education Must Come First in Cameroon: Yasmine Sherif calls for an end to attacks on schools. moderndiplomacy.eu The future of humanity hangs in the balance. Acute threats of conflict, COVID-19, climate change, poverty, displacement, hunger and other factors are pushing millions more people — with children the most vulnerable and hardest hit — to the edge in humanitarian crises around the world. We can save humanity from these vast interconnected crises, including …

Phoebe Barnard (2021-12-07). Six areas where action must focus to rescue this planet. zcomm.org Please Help ZNet Source: The Conversation Photo by Dario.Outside/Shutterstock For some time, the Earth's natural resources have been depleted faster than they can be replaced. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has set a 2030 deadline to reduce heat-trapping emissions by half to avoid climate change that is

Staff (2021-12-07). Russia set to limit Europe's reliance on Gazprom's energy supplies. rt.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered the government to outline detailed proposals for the state-run energy giant Rosneft to supply up to 10 billion cubic meters of pipelined natural gas exports to Europe. | The proposals are set to be worked out in close cooperation with Rosneft management and rival energy major Gazprom by March 1, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. | Gazprom currently holds a monopoly on European gas supplies. | The project was initially proposed by Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin with the purpose of lowering gas prices across Europe, and generating additional bu…

_____ (2021-12-07). Governor Orders Operations Of Navy's Massive Jet Fuel Tanks Suspended. popularresistance.org On December 6, after all hell broke loose at each of the five town hall meetings held over several days by the U.S. Navy to try to calm military families who have been drinking and bathing in fuel contaminated water, the Governor of the State of Hawai'i issued an order to the Navy to suspend the operation of the massive jet fuel tanks and within 30 days "defuel" or remove the fuel out of the tanks! Governor Ige said the public had lost confidence in the Navy. For the past week, rather than providing accurate information about the drinking water contamination, senior military leadership were caught in their own we…

Sameena Rahman (2021-12-07). Notorious Navy fuel facility poisons Honolulu drinking water. liberationnews.org The Honolulu Board of Water Supply has shut down the Halawa well, the largest source of drinking water for the main Hawaiian island Oahu, after the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor announced contamination from its World War Two-era Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.

_____ (2021-12-07). Biden-Putin Talk Tuesday With Xi In The Wings. popularresistance.org On May 25, 2021, when the date of June 16 was announced for the summit between Presidents Biden and Putin, it seemed a good idea to waste no time in warning Biden and his neophyte advisers that a major shift in the "world correlation of forces" (to borrow an old Soviet term) was bound to heavily influence the June talks. China, of course, would not be taking part in the bilateral talks, but it would be very much present. | In other words, a half-year ago, we worried: | "Whether or not Official Washington fully appreciates the gradual — but profound — change in America's triangular relationship with Ru…