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Media Coverage of Climate Science Is Stunting Climate Action, Especially in US
Media Coverage of Climate Science Is Stunting Climate Action, Especially in US The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plays an enormous role in shaping how climate science gets translated into policy in countries around the world, but so does the media. A new report finds that, while the IPCCcould have managed the rollout of itsFifth Assessment […]
Water Is Life; We Can’t Afford To Waste It
Water Is Life; We Can’t Afford To Waste It How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing, the threat to your life might only come from people who can’t stand the smell. But most people won’t live for more than three […]
NEW YORK TIMES ACCIDENTALLY UNDERMINES JOHN BOLTON “BOMB IRAN” OP-ED IN OWN PAGES
NEW YORK TIMES ACCIDENTALLY UNDERMINES JOHN BOLTON “BOMB IRAN” OP-ED IN OWN PAGES The New York Times yesterday published an op-ed by the characteristically bellicose John R. Bolton, headlined ‘To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran.’ Bolton, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration. In […]
‘Frackademia’ Report Reveals Ties Between Government, Universities, and Shale Industry
‘Frackademia’ Report Reveals Ties Between Government, Universities, and Shale Industry While the government has decided to provide tax breaks for the oil industry in the 2015 Government Budget, everyone else has been talking about divestment. Ben Lucas looks at the growing movement and new evidence published this week on the relationship between government, universities and […]
Monetary System, World Order We’ve Had Since 1940’s Are Collapsing: Richard Maybury
Monetary System, World Order We’ve Had Since 1940’s Are Collapsing: Richard Maybury Richard Maybury has been predicting ‘black swan’ events in his newsletter Early Warning Report for the last two decades. In a recent conversation, he put his finger on something happening around the world. He sees a growing anxiety about global events – “everybody knows there’s […]
Yemen Is On The Brink Of Civil War, Says UN Envoy
Yemen Is On The Brink Of Civil War, Says UN Envoy CAIRO, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The United Nations’ special envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, has warned that the country is on the brink of civil war and accused all sides of contributing to the political and economic turmoil. Yemen is slipping further into chaos […]
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. – Malcolm X On January 30, 2015, El Universal, one of the big […]
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil The “thirst for oil” is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention in Syria now and in Rwanda […]
Mariupol-Donetsk-Frunza! Can Poroshenko Escape Crimes Against Humanity Trial?
Mariupol-Donetsk-Frunza! Can Poroshenko Escape Crimes Against Humanity Trial? A little over a week ago Petro Poroshenko ordered an all out assault on Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. Faced with massive losses during the first few days the Poroshenko regime has resorted unsuccessfully to get both republic’s listed as terrorist organizations by the EU and United […]
Rising Temperatures on Land and Sea Made 2014 Hottest Year
Rising Temperatures on Land and Sea Made 2014 Hottest Year High temperatures across most of the globe made 2014 Earth’s hottest year in records dating back to 1880, a government report showed. The combined land and ocean temperature on the planet was 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit (about 0.7 Celsius) above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanic and […]
Is Sustainable Development an Oxymoron?
Is Sustainable Development an Oxymoron? We love Eleanor Roosevelt. And Eleanor Roosevelt loved the United Nations. While it does not necessarily follow that we too love the United Nations, we have always felt that the central idea of a United Nations was a good one, in fact it is really the only one that has […]
Situation in Ukraine ‘nearing humanitarian catastrophe’ – Amnesty Intl
Situation in Ukraine ‘nearing humanitarian catastrophe’ – Amnesty Intl Eastern Ukraine is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe, as residents struggle to get food and medicine, rights group Amnesty International told Reuters. The UN refugee watchdog added that the elderly in the region could be severely hit by Kiev’s policies. People in the southeastern Lugansk and Donetsk […]
From Bad to Worse: A Roadmap to Global Burning | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
From Bad to Worse: A Roadmap to Global Burning | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020 agreement that will be weaker than the ongoing Cancun Agreement (for 2012-2020), and […]
UN says Ebola-hit nations at risk of hunger – Africa – Al Jazeera English
UN says Ebola-hit nations at risk of hunger – Africa – Al Jazeera English. Up to one million people are at risk of going hungry in West African nations battling the Ebola virus due to border closures, quarantines and crop losses, UN food agencies have said. The deadly haemorrhagic fever that has killed 6,800 people […]
UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians — RT News
UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians — RT News. Kiev-controlled volunteer battalions and the Ukrainian Security Service are involved in an increasing number of human rights violations including torture and forced disappearances of those suspected of “separatism,” according to a UN OHCHR report. The report by the UN High […]
