Live: UK Oil Infrastructure Shut Down
Live: UK Oil Infrastructure Shut Down
Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline
Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline Activists protest against the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at the United States Capitol on Friday, October 15, 2021. PHOTO BY TOM WILLIAMS/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big […]
German Chemical Giant Warns Of “Total Collapse” If Russian Gas Supply Cut
German Chemical Giant Warns Of “Total Collapse” If Russian Gas Supply Cut CEO of Germany’s multinational BASF SE, the world’s largest chemical producer, has warned that curbing or cutting off energy imports from Russia would bring into doubt the continued existence of small and medium-sized energy companies, and further would likely spiral Germany into its most […]
The Media is the Number One Cause of War Since 1898
The Media is the Number One Cause of War Since 1898 In 1895, a 32-year old entrepreneur in New York City bought a failing newspaper and hatched a bold plan to turn it around. The newspaper industry was cutthroat, especially in New York. There were at least 16 other daily newspapers in circulation, and there […]
Germany Scrambles To Ration Gas After Refusing To Make Payments In Rubles
Germany Scrambles To Ration Gas After Refusing To Make Payments In Rubles Now that Moscow has doubled down on its demands that its European “partners” pay for its oil and gas in rubles instead of euros (which, as the bloc already demonstrated, can be easily confiscated in the name of “sanctions”), the German government is digging […]
Unsafe Water Kills More People Than Disasters And Conflicts
Unsafe Water Kills More People Than Disasters And Conflicts Fewer people around the world lack access to basic drinking water services than when the data was last published in 2015. Yet, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz explains below, several countries, especially in Africa, still have a way to go to provide their citizens with safe drinking water. You will […]
Life in ‘Degrowth’ Economy: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent (Part IV of Ecological Civilisation)
Life in ‘Degrowth’ Economy: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent (Part IV of Ecological Civilisation)
The world on the brink of the abyss. Looking at the real danger
The world on the brink of the abyss. Looking at the real danger The neoliberal ideology of unrestrained markets has led to a global crisis. Humanity now faces an existential threat as the result of global dominance by corporations, whose ultimate goal is at odds with human flourishing Back in 1947, as the world was […]
Farmers on the Brink
Farmers on the Brink “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower It was a spooky time to be out at sea off the US East Coast on Halloween in 1991. A strong storm system over the maritime provinces in […]
No one will win in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
No one will win in the Russia-Ukraine conflict Most people have a preconceived notion that there will be a clear winner and loser from any war. In their view, the world economy will go on, much as before, after the war is “won” by one side or the other. In my view, we are basically […]
Kremlin Threatens To Halt Supplies As G7 Ministers Reject “Unacceptable” Demand To Pay For Gas In Rubles
Kremlin Threatens To Halt Supplies As G7 Ministers Reject “Unacceptable” Demand To Pay For Gas In Rubles Update(9:01ET): Russia on Monday has issued a firm and unyielding response to G-7 ministers who had dismissed as “unacceptable” its plan to only accept ruble payments for Russian gas going to “unfriendly” nations. Earlier Monday German Economy Minister Robert Habeck […]
A World That’s More Expensive Is Starting to Destroy Demand
A World That’s More Expensive Is Starting to Destroy Demand Buyers are balking at high prices for fuel, food and metals, threatening to tip economies back into recession. The Central de Abastos Market in Mexico City. Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg Prices for some of the world’s most pivotal products – foods, fuels, plastics, metals – are spiking beyond […]
Rationing Looms As Diesel Crisis Goes Global
Rationing Looms As Diesel Crisis Goes Global Russian refiners cut processing rates of diesel fuel. Already tight diesel supply is getting even tighter. Vitol’s chief executive Hardy: diesel supply shortage could trigger rationing in Europe Earlier this week, Vitol’s chief Russell Hardy warned that a diesel shortage could trigger fuel rationing in Europe. Now, those […]
Nightmare Scenario: Operational Miscalculations Could Trigger Nuclear War
Nightmare Scenario: Operational Miscalculations Could Trigger Nuclear War Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have tried to set up phone calls with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov but the Russians “have so far declined […]
