2024-06-25: News Headlines

Eve Andrews, Ambrook. (2024-06-25). Around The Mountain Valley Pipeline, Farmers Losing Access To Clean Water. popularresistance.org There are some who say the water of Monroe County, West Virginia, is the purest and best-tasting in the world — or at least it was in the 1990s. The springs on Peters Mountain, which straddles the border with Virginia, won first prize at the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting four times in that decade, beating out — as farmer Maury Johnson will tell you — the renowned municipal water of New York City. | Johnson's family has owned over 200 acres of farmland in Monroe County for 130 years, in the verdant Hans Creek Valley. Coming around the bend of a two-lane road into the valley, you be…

Dan Lieberman (2024-06-25). Preventing the Genocide. dissidentvoice.org Part 1 of a two-parter: Israelis Live Wasted and Desperate Lives and Should Leave The fuss that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken manufactured over their Israel inspired ceasefire plan is pathetic. Claiming Hamas is "proposing changes that are not workable." without specifying the proposed changes (are there changes?), is not informing …

Editor (2024-06-25). How America's "Most Powerful Lobby" Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State. scheerpost.com By Mark Olalde / Last year, representatives of New Mexico's oil industry met behind closed doors…

Ruth Milka (2024-06-25). Exxon and Suncor lose bid to escape Boulder's climate change lawsuit. nationofchange.org

Germán Gorraiz López (2024-06-25). Is a socio-economic paradigm shift inevitable on planet Earth? pressenza.com Western society is characterised by the reign of hedonism and nihilism, as opposed to the critical spirit and culture of effort of the 20th century, because it is made up of individuals who are dependent on material goods and who form a homogeneous, uncritical mass that is easy to manipulate by the ruling classes. | To produce these consumer goods, the world's leaders have opted for the uncontrolled consumption of raw materials and fossil fuels to feed the production machinery, ignoring deforestation, uncontrolled pollution and the waste generated, which would already plunge us into a dangerous vortex of CO2 incr…

Holly Chik (2024-06-25). Chinese firms in US see more negative business climate amid 'significant' downturn: survey. scmp.com Trade tensions and 'hostile public sentiment' fuel findings, with dips in performance resembling 2020 when coronavirus pandemic hit globally.

Mong Palatino (2024-06-25). Decolonization, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific. globalvoices.org

Charles Rotter (2024-06-25). A Day in the LIFE of a Climate Journalist. wattsupwiththat.com Josh nails it For context: We previously covered the pathetic green colonialist's hit piece here:…

| Peter Boyle | (2024-06-25). Why ecosocialism is not just a good idea but a necessity. socialist-alliance.org As the climate emergency and extinction crises deepen, there is no choice but to struggle to democratise the economy so that it can be made to serve social needs and ecological sustainability. Peter Boyle reports.

newarab (2024-06-25). Mountains of waste 'ticking timebomb' as disease spreads in Gaza. newarab.com Israel's eight-month This situation has seen a proliferation of

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2024-06-23: News Headlines

Editor (2024-06-23). Climate Activists Blockade Citigroup's Doors with Model Pipeline and Protest Bank's Ties to Israel. scheerpost.com

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2024-06-23). Hawaii To Decarbonize Transportation In Youth Climate Change Settlement. popularresistance.org On Thursday, Hawaii agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 13 young people alleging the state had violated their constitutional rights with infrastructure that adds to greenhouse (GHG) emissions, exacerbating climate change. | In the settlement, the state agreed to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045. | At a news conference, Governor of Hawaii Josh Green, a Democrat, called the settlement "groundbreaking," reported Reuters. | "We're addressing the impacts of climate change today, and needless to say, this is a priority because we know now that climate change is here," Green said, as Reuters reported. "It…

Keerti Gopal, Scheer Post. (2024-06-23). Climate Activists Blockade Citigroup's Doors With Model Pipeline. popularresistance.org New York—Tensions were high outside of Citigroup's global headquarters on Friday morning as climate activists blockaded the doors for an hour and hundreds of employees waited in the plaza to get to work. | The demonstration marked the end of the second week of the "Summer of Heat on Wall Street," a sustained, direct-action campaign targeting financial institutions, with a particular emphasis on Citi for its robust financing of fossil fuel projects, despite stated commitments to a clean energy transition. According to the Banking on Climate Chaos report from the Rainforest Action Network, an advocacy group,…

EcoWatch (2024-06-23). Four Out of Five People Want Increased Climate Action, UN Poll Says. pressenza.com According to a new global survey of 75,000 people — By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes | The poll, conducted by the

Staff (2024-06-23). Rich Nation Hypocrisy Accelerating Global Heating. defenddemocracy.press By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 24 2024 (IPS) — Rich nations' climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating, pushing the planet closer to irreversible catastrophe, with its worst consequences borne by the poorest, both countries and peoples. Climate injusticeWhile official and other discourses acknowledge or even invoke the need for collective responsibility, the disparity …

Tripurdaman Singh (2024-06-23). FO ∞ Talks: Make Sense of India's Big, Young Democracy. fairobserver.com Indians believe strongly in the robustness of their democracy, but the recent political climate has been tense and volatile. Both India's political system and its constitution make it somewhat unique among democracies. Amidst accusations of authoritarian tendencies and democratic backsliding, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attempts to carry out his policy agendas to improve India's place…

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