Ali Abunimah (2023-09-21). "Every allegation of anti-Semitism was found to be false" electronicintifada.net A climate of fear is stifling free speech, academic research and student activism about Palestine at UK universities, report finds.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-21). Seymour Hersh: Ukraine Has Lost in its War with Russia. libya360.wordpress.com BAND OF BROTHERS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, US Climate Envoy John Kerry, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken listen as President Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday. / Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via…

Mnar Adley (2023-09-21). The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke. mintpressnews.com More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. Yet mainstream media outlets would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-21). Climate Related News: Wildfires, urban fires, climate change and economic depression have something in common but it is not CO2. expose-news.com Corporate media frequently spread conspiracy theories but this is never acknowledged. Corporate media also spreads propaganda according to the wishes of their paymasters. Propaganda which includes all things related to a "human-caused …

Staff (2023-09-21). World Must Decarbonize Before "Point of No Return" on Climate Crisis: Colombian President Gustavo Petro. democracynow.org In Part 2 of our interview with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, he says climate change is a "vital matter" the world must address collectively. But unlike world trade, which is governed by a set of common rules, there is no organizing rubric for decarbonizing the world economy in time to prevent catastrophe. "There's no courts for this. There's no justice. So everybody can just slip by," Petro says. He says the amount of money rich countries have provided to hasten the clean energy transition falls far short of commitments made in the 2015 Paris Agreement and is a drop in th…

Staff (2023-09-21). Headlines for September 21, 2023. democracynow.org U.N. Chief Warns Climate Ambition Summit, "Humanity Has Opened the Gates of Hell", Biden Announces Climate Corps as Activists Demand He Declare Climate Emergency, Study Finds Climate Change Made Libya Flood Catastrophe 50 Times More Likely, U.N. Warns Fighting Between Sudan's Rival Military Factions Is Sickening and Killing Children, CNN: Ukraine Likely Behind Drone Strikes on Wagner-Backed Paramilitary in Sudan, Nagorno-Karabakh Residents Seek Security Guarantees as Peace Talks Get Underway, Patients Billed Up to $190 for COVID-19 Shots That Insurance Plans Are Required to Cover, Senate Confirm…

Staff (2023-09-21). Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Ukraine, Palestine & Why Latin America Rejects Western Hypocrisy. democracynow.org Colombian President Gustavo Petro joins Democracy Now! for an exclusive broadcast interview after his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he spoke of the need to end wars and stop the climate crisis. Petro is the first leftist to ever govern Colombia. He was elected in 2022 after campaigning to fight inequality and poverty, increase taxes on the wealthy, expand social programs, restore peace and end Colombia's dependence on fossil fuels. He is a former M-19 guerrilla who went on to become the mayor of Bogotá and a senator before rising to the presidency. In Part 1 of the interv…

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. (2023-09-20). Climate Defenders Arrested While Blocking Entry To NY Federal Reserve. popularresistance.org A day after tens of thousands of climate activists marched through Manhattan's Upper East Side demanding an end to oil, gas, and coal production, thousands more demonstrators hit the streets of Lower Manhattan Monday, where more than 100 people were arrested while surrounding the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to protest fossil fuel financing. | Protesters chanted slogans like "No oil, no gas, fossil fuels can kiss my ass" and "We need clean air, not another billionaire" as they marched from Zuccotti Park—ground zero of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement—to pre-selected sites in the Financial Dist…

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-20). Cuba confirms its willingness to fight climate change at the UN. plenglish.com United Nations, Sep 20 (Prensa Latina) Despite the obstacles imposed by the United States' blockade, Cuba confirmed its willingness to contribute to the global efforts against climate change, President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated on Wednesday.

Julio Adamor (2023-09-20). Lula takes a stand before Joe Biden by condemning the embargo on Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's speech and that of US President Joe Biden at the opening ceremony of the 78th United Nations General Assembly shared many similarities: they talked about hunger in the world, social inequality, extreme environmental events such as climate change and the need to democratize the UN and global governance as a whole. But one topic was approached in quite different terms by the two presidents: the Caribbean countries, particularly the embargo on Cuba. | "Brazil will continue to reject measures taken without support from the UN Charter, such as the economic and financial…

Lindsay Koshgarian, Alliyah Lusuegro (2023-09-20). Climate Is the Fight of Our Lifetime. Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That. fpif.org More than half of discretionary spending goes to the military. Only a tiny fraction addresses the most urgent threat to our security.

Lindsay Koshgarian, Alliyah Lusuegro (2023-09-20). Climate Is the Fight of Our Lifetime. Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That. otherwords.org As the hottest summer in human history approached its end, tens of thousands of climate marchers rallied in New York to call for bold climate solutions. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Washington lurched toward another fight over the federal budget. | More than ever, the U.S. needs to get serious about climate. And to do that, we need to re-prioritize what's in that budget. | As it stands,

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-20). The waning Sun instantly flushes climate alarmists' claims of never-ending rising temperatures down the pan. expose-news.com In recent years, the Sun has been at its weakest state in more than a century. Low solar activity impacts Earth's weather/climate through several different mechanisms, the most immediately noticeable one being …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-20). China reaffirms commitment to sustainable and low-carbon development. plenglish.com According to a Xinhua report, Vice President Han Zheng repeated these remarks to US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. | Han stressed that the Chinese Government grants great importance to promoting environmental protection and has achieved the 2020 climate target ahead of schedule. | Kerry visited China in July, marking the resumption of formal communications on climate change after a hiatus in 2022. | At the time, talks between Kerry and his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, focuse…

Ashley Curtin (2023-09-21). Biden administration launches the American Climate Corps. nationofchange.org According to the White House, in its first year, the American Climate Corps will put more than 20,000 young people on career pathways in the fields of clean energy, conservation and climate resilience.

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2023-09-21). Climate Catastrophe: A Worldwide Exploding Bomb. counterpunch.org Prologue Climate change / global warming is so new to history and civilization that the very people / companies that brought it into being are continuing to deny its existence. It's like a nuclear bomb. War gave it birth, the madness of the moment, the fear that the Germans would develop it. This spurred the

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-21). Venezuelan President recalls International Day of Peace. plenglish.com That is the path of the Bolivarian Republic and "we will always insist on building a world without hatred and violence, where human solidarity and social justice prevail," the head of State wrote on his X account, formerly Twitter. | The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared September 21, 1981, as the International Day of Peace, with the goal of commemorating the ideals of peace of every people and every nation. | The date makes special emphasis on social and economic development on issues such as poverty, hunger, health care, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, electricity,…

Amy Goodman (2023-09-20). Judge Tosses Charges Against 3 Indigenous Water Protectors for Pipeline Action. truthout.org A Minnesota judge has dismissed criminal charges against three Indigenous water protectors who were arrested for protesting oil extraction on treaty-ceded Anishinaabe land. Winona LaDuke, Tania Aubid and Dawn Goodwin were arrested in January 2021 after police saw video shared on social media of the three women singing, dancing and praying near construction crews for Canadian energy company… |

Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. (2023-09-20). Pipeline Fighter Denied Bail After Blocking MVP Construction For 3 Days. popularresistance.org Roanoke County, VA — Early Saturday morning, a pipeline fighter using the name "Bramble" locked herself to a buried lockbox at a Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) worksite in Roanoke County. She prevented pipeline workers from clearing vegetation on the top of Poor Mountain for three days; on Monday, she was extracted from her blockade and arrested. As of Tuesday afternoon, she is still being held without bail. | "I'm fighting for a world where we can all be free," Bramble stated. On day 2 of her blockade, she wrote, "Workers came by my spot today and took away my supplies, hoping that I would leave. In the en…

Staff (2023-09-20). "I'm Not a Criminal… Enbridge Is": Charges Tossed Against Winona LaDuke & Others for Pipeline Action. democracynow.org A Minnesota judge has dismissed criminal charges against three Indigenous water protectors who were arrested for protesting oil extraction on treaty-ceded Anishinaabe land. Winona LaDuke, Tania Aubid and Dawn Goodwin were arrested in January 2021 after police saw video shared on social media of the three women singing, dancing and praying near construction crews for Canadian energy company Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline. In a landmark opinion, Judge Leslie Metzen affirmed the protesters' free speech rights, writing that "to criminalize their behavior would be the crime." We go to…

Editor (2023-09-21). Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life. mronline.org The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear.

Editor (2023-09-20). 'Very Bad News': Human Activities Increased Extinction Rate of Species Groups by 35 Times. scheerpost.com

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-21). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-20). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

Jake Johnson (2023-09-20). 'Damning' probe finds 80% of top carbon Offset schemes are 'likely junk or worthless'. nationofchange.org "We cannot afford to waste any more time on false solutions."

Peter Boyle (2023-09-20). 'Japan is sending its radioactive waste on a trip around the world'. greenleft.org.au Katti Jisuk Seo, a young Korean-German woman, told a Sydney protest against Japan's dumping of radioactive contaminated wastewater that the danger posed to marine life and the food chain is unacceptable, reports Peter Boyle.

Brenda Norrell (2023-09-21). Navajo Shot in the Eye at Standing Rock 'Now is Time to Hold Cops Responsible'. indybay.org Marcus Mitchell, Navajo water protector who was shot in the eye at Standing Rock, said now is the time to hold the cops responsible, after giving a deposition in the federal case filed against law enforcement for excessive force.

Brenda Norrell (2023-09-20). Navajo Shot in the Eye at Standing Rock 'Now is Time to Hold Cops Responsible'. indybay.org Marcus Mitchell, Navajo water protector who was shot in the eye at Standing Rock, said now is the time to hold the cops responsible, after giving a deposition in the federal case filed against law enforcement for excessive force.

Amy Goodman (2023-09-18). Frontline, Youth and Labor Activists Demand Biden Act Now on Climate Crisis. truthout.org During the rally at Sunday's March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City, activists decried President Joe Biden's continued investment in fossil fuels and his refusal to declare a national emergency over the worsening effects of climate change. Louisiana climate justice activist Roishetta Ozane said Biden is "personally accountable" for climate change-fueled natural disasters, while 16-year-old… |

Dorian Maffei, Left Voice. (2023-09-18). France: Stellantis Workers Walk Out To Demand Breaks Amid Heat Wave. popularresistance.org Last week, France was blanketed by a dome of heat, resulting in exceptionally warm temperatures. It even broke the previous record set in 1949, making September 4 the hottest day ever recorded in France during the month of September. The French national meteorological service, Météo-France, points to a remarkably long and intense heat wave which has lasted late into the season, clearly pointing to the impact of climate change, which tends to extend summer heatwaves. | At the Stellantis plant in Hordain, France, where Peugeot and Citroà´n vehicles are assembled, outside temperatures exceeded a scorching 30 &…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Thessalia Tragedy: Greece in the Crosshairs of NATO and Israel. libya360.wordpress.com The Thessalia plains floods are a catastrophe of biblical proportions — deliberate or 'climate change'? Thessalia floods in Greece. Barely reported by legacy media. Why? We have covered the fires in Greece that serve NATO expansion and the installation of wind farms to provide energy for the EU. Now, we have the devastating floods in…

Jake Johnson (2023-09-18). United States: Demanding an end to 'deadly fossil fuels', tens of thousands take the streets in NYC. greenleft.org.au Tens of thousands poured into the streets of New York City, on September 17, for the largest climate mobilisation in the United States in years, reports Jake Johnson.

Julia Conley (2023-09-18). California's Historic Climate Disclosure Legislation Targets Big Corporations. truthout.org Climate advocates expressed hope Monday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom would help usher in a new era of accountability for corporate polluters nationwide after he confirmed plans to sign legislation forcing companies to publicly disclose their climate-related risks and more complete accounting of their total emissions. At a Climate Week event in New York on Sunday, Newsom said he wants to… |

Staff (2023-09-18). Headlines for September 18, 2023. democracynow.org U.N. Revises Death Toll from Libya Floods as Recovery Efforts Continue, 75,000 March to End Fossil Fuels in NYC as Hundreds of Thousands Worldwide Demand Climate Justice, Striking Workers Warn U.S. Automakers They May Expand Work Stoppage, Zelensky to Visit D.C. as Congress Debates Billions of Additional Dollars for Ukraine, Military Juntas in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso Sign Mutual Defense Pact, Office High-Rise Burns in Sudan's Capital Amid Fierce Fighting by Rival Factions, Iran and U.S. Finalize Prisoner Swap, Father of Mahsa Amini Arrested on First Anniversary of Her Death in Police Custody, Rights Gr…

Staff (2023-09-18). "We Will Not Give Up": AOC, Vanessa Nakate Lead Calls at Massive NY Climate Rally to End Fossil Fuels. democracynow.org We continue our coverage of the March to End Fossil Fuels, where protesters noted the United States is projected to account for more than one-third of planned global oil and gas expansion from today through 2050. It is the top oil and gas producer in the world, one of just 20 countries that will be responsible for 90% of new fossil fuel production over the next few decades. We feature speeches from Sunday's rally by Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate and Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They were among more than 75,000 attendees of what was the largest climate mobilization in the world since 20…

Staff (2023-09-18). The March to End Fossil Fuels: 75,000 Rally in NYC to Push Biden & World Leaders on Climate Crisis. democracynow.org Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of midtown Manhattan Sunday to send a clear message to the world and leaders coming to the city for the U.N. General Assembly this week: End fossil fuels. As part of more than 200 actions around the world leading up to the first-ever United Nations Climate Ambition Summit this Wednesday, more than 700 grassroots groups together called on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, stop all federal approvals for new fossil fuel projects, phase out production of fossil fuels on federal public lands, and build a new clean energy future. Speakers at the massive m…

Staff (2023-09-18). Labor, Frontline & Youth Voices Call on Biden to Immediately Act to Prevent Climate Catastrophe. democracynow.org During the rally at Sunday's March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City, activists decried President Joe Biden's continued investment in fossil fuels and his refusal to declare a national emergency over the worsening effects of climate change. Louisiana climate justice activist Roishetta Ozane said Biden is "personally accountable" for climate change-fueled natural disasters, while 16-year-old Fridays for Future organizer Helen Mancini proclaimed, "There is not enough time to put this off another term." Both emphasized the role of impacted communities — from those living…

David Goessmann (2023-09-17). Climate strike: How elites have been fighting Generation Alarm for five years. indybay.org Some activists are later sentenced to pay millions in damages, others have to spend months in prison for their civil disobedience. In the Bild newspaper, RWE boss Rolf Martin Schmitz calls them "eco-terrorists." But neither heat, nor summer drought, nor coal protests led the politicians to ask questions about the climate.

FFF Global Climate Strike website (2023-09-17). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike in Santa Cruz. indybay.org Outside of Santa Cruz City Hall | 809 Center Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060…

Jake Johnson (2023-09-17). "A Watershed Moment": CA Sues Oil Giants Over Decades of Climate Destruction. truthout.org The state of California on Friday filed suit against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, accusing the five oil and gas giants of a decadeslong campaign to mislead the public about the threat fossil fuels pose to the climate. The lawsuit makes California the largest economy on the planet to take legal action against fossil fuel companies over their efforts to deceive the world about… |

Luis Chirino (2023-09-17). G77 nations + China address poverty, equality. america.cgtn.com The summit of G77 nations plus China wrapped up in Havana, Cuba, on Saturday. Participants reached consensus on developing countries' need to close ranks to face current global challenges. | They stressed the need for a more equitable world order to address poverty, access to science and technology, and to cushion the impact of climate change. | CGTN's Luis Chirino reports.

Marie Harrison Community Foundation (2023-09-17). Saturday 9/23: Climate Action: BaySpark 2023: Igniting Youth Action for Climate and Environmental Justice. indybay.org Southeast Community Center, | 1550 Evans Avenue San Francisco, CA 94124…

Nitza Soledad Perez (2023-09-17). How effective is the UN plan to address climate change? america.cgtn.com It's been a year of climate action for the United Nations. | The world body continues to work to try to find ways to help slow down global warming and the problems it causes. | Is the UN plan effective? | CGTN's Nitza Soledad Perez reports.

Siri Chilukuri (2023-09-17). Climate Change Played a Role in Staggering Flood Death Toll in Libya. truthout.org This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. Catastrophic flooding earlier this week in Libya killed at least 10,000 people, with more than 30,000 displaced, after Storm Daniel pummeled the coast and two dams broke in quick succession. Nearly a quarter of Derna, a coastal city in the eastern corner of Libya, was destroyed in the flooding… |

Speak Out Now Berkeley (2023-09-17). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike at UC Berkeley. indybay.org Gather at Sather Gate | UC Berkeley | Sather Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720…

Jake Johnson (2023-09-18). Demanding an end to 'deadly fossil fuels,' tens of thousands take the streets in NYC. nationofchange.org "It's time for Biden to declare a climate emergency and phase out the fossil fuels killing people and wildlife around the world."

_____ (2023-09-18). Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom. transcend.org 6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.

_____ (2023-09-18). Climate Collapse — The Grim Silence of Our Leaders. transcend.org 14 Sep 2023 – None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of worldwide extreme weather like in this summer. Canadian wildfires, a Hawaiian town incinerated, a Greek island devastated by rainfall, a Libyan town washed into the sea leaving 20,000 dead, killer hurricanes fueled by climate change, heatwaves, floods…

_____ (2023-09-18). Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011. transcend.org 13 Sep 2023 – Western foreign policy has destroyed the capacity of Libya and the Kingdom of Morocco to coordinate relief efforts amid the worsening effects of climate change.

David Goessmann (2023-09-18). Climate strike: How elites have been fighting Generation Alarm for five years. indybay.org Some activists are later sentenced to pay millions in damages, others have to spend months in prison for their civil disobedience. In the Bild newspaper, RWE boss Rolf Martin Schmitz calls them "eco-terrorists." But neither heat, nor summer drought, nor coal protests led the politicians to ask questions about the climate.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-17). Angola plans to eliminate refrigerant gases by 2030. plenglish.com Since 2012 the country began to apply the schedule for the gradual elimination of these gases, which are harmful to the ozone layer and cause global warming, in compliance with the Montreal Protocol, Ivone Pascoal, the person in charge of the issue in the aforementioned ministry, explained to the Angolan Press Agency. | It is expected that the application of the measure of not importing these gases and their exclusion from consumption will be completed by 2025, leaving a margin until 2030 for their total disappearance. | Reaching this point, required intense awareness-raising work on good refrigeration practices…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-18). Protest calls on NSW gov't, Santos to stop fracking the Pilliga. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-17). Protest calls on NSW gov't, Santos to stop fracking the Pilliga. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-18). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

ecns.cn (2023-09-18). Japan draws up whitewash plan to salvage image. ecns.cn Japan plans to strengthen the monitoring and analysis of information about the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean and is seeking extra funding to step up public relations efforts at home and abroad.

Lucrecia Franco (2023-09-17). Beach cleanup in Brazil highlights dangers of plastic pollution. america.cgtn.com Celebrated on the third Saturday of September since 2018, World Cleanup Day is the largest international environmental mobilization aimed at combating the world's solid waste problem. | In Rio de Janeiro, hundreds took to one of Guanabara Bay's most polluted beaches to draw attention to the dangers of plastic pollution. | CGTN's Lucrecia Franco reports.