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Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy Photo Source Andy Powell | CC BY 2.0 Oligarchy is bad for children’s health All past civilizations protected children. It was self-evident that healthy children assured continuity, security and happiness. However, machine-powered civilizations give the illusion corporations, oligarchies, and the government control everything. Children fade in this confused […]
How the U.K. and Ecuador Conspire to Deliver Julian Assange to U.S. Authorities
How the U.K. and Ecuador Conspire to Deliver Julian Assange to U.S. Authorities Photo Source Jeanne Menjoulet | CC BY 2.0 The accidental revelation in mid-November that U.S. federal prosecutors had secretly filed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange underlines the determination of the Trump administration to end Assange’s asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he […]
Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China
Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China Photo Source DVIDSHUB | CC BY 2.0 On November 26 the New York Times asserted that “Russia’s seizure [on November 25] of three Ukrainian naval vessels was the first overt armed conflict between the two since 2014, when Russian forces occupied Crimea.” There was no armed conflict in Crimea […]
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’ Photo Source N i c o l a | CC BY 2.0 Cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover But what he saw made him start to cringe and stutter Cause he was starring into the eyes of his own mother — […]
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer?
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer? Photo Source Anahi Patricia Jasso Aleman | CC BY 2.0 A friend recently sent me a piece by Jason Hickel, arguing that growth can’t be green and that we need to move away from growth oriented economics. I am not convinced. It strikes me both that the piece misrepresents what growth […]
Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change
Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change Photo Source Audrey | CC BY 2.0 Thanksgiving is quite a holiday. In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas. Yes, vegetarians may live longer and vegans even more so, but the smell of a roasting turkey […]
The Scourge of the American Petroleum Tankers That Prowl the British Columbia Coast
The Scourge of the American Petroleum Tankers That Prowl the British Columbia Coast November 26 marked a dreadful anniversary for the tanker-bedraggled British Columbia coast. One year ago in Hecate Strait, the American ATB “pusher tug” Jake Shearer broke apart from its fully loaded 10,000 deadweight-ton capacity petroleum barge and came within a stone’s throw […]
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn Photo Source Edwardx | CC BY 2.0 The BBC spreads fake news. We all know that. From the uncritical parroting of the British government’s Iraqi weapons of mass destruction claims to the unchallenged lies spouted by […]
Employment, Ecology, Extinction: French Students Take on the System to Save the Species
Employment, Ecology, Extinction: French Students Take on the System to Save the Species Photo Source Manifeste étudiant pour un réveil écologique | CC BY 2.0 It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair On my last day of teaching Environmental Studies, […]
Carbon Capture – Does it Work?
Carbon Capture – Does it Work? Photo Source Nicholas A. Tonelli | CC BY 2.0 Harken! Good news (maybe) “encouraging news” is a better description, as Negative Emissions Technology (“NET”) starts coming into focus. Conceptually, carbon removal or direct air capture removes CO2 from the atmosphere, which would be great for suppressing climate change. In […]
Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived Photo Source cloud2013 | CC BY 2.0 “The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can’t justify it, it’s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don’t really […]
Lurching Toward Catastrophe: The Trump Administration and Nuclear Weapons
Lurching Toward Catastrophe: The Trump Administration and Nuclear Weapons In July 2017, by a vote of 122 to 1, with one abstention, nations from around the world attending a United Nations-sponsored conference in New York City voted to approve a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Although this Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons received […]
The Case Against WikiLeaks is a Threat to All Journalists
The Case Against WikiLeaks is a Threat to All Journalists The Justice Department has prepared criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and is working behind the scenes to have him extradited to the United States. Press freedom and the right to dissent may hang in the balance. The criminal charges were accidentally revealed last […]
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch Photo Source Gunvor Røkke | CC BY 2.0 “As soon as you are a scientist … you take a political side [because] you must necessarily choose to ask only certain questions. Many scientists … produce risk assessment for forest management [which] asks ‘how much can we cut, graze, salvage, spray, […]
