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Climate Change Action Would Kill Imperialism

Climate Change Action Would Kill Imperialism Photo Source Molly Adams | CC BY 2.0 Climate change action would kill imperialism, and that is why we can’t have it in America. American political power is based on fossil fuels, and the US military is the engine that consumes those fuels to produce that power. So long […]

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Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange

Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange Photo Source Michael Mayer | CC BY 2.0 Those with a stake in the hustling racket of empire have little time for the contrariness that comes with exposing classified information.  Those who do are submitted to a strict liability regime of assessment and punishment: you […]

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Global Oil Price Deflation 2018 and Beyond

Global Oil Price Deflation 2018 and Beyond Photo Source wongaboo | CC BY 2.0 One of the key characteristics of the 2008-09 crash and its aftermath (i.e. chronic slow recovery in US and double and triple dip recessions in Europe and Japan) was a significant deflation in prices of global oil. After attaining well over […]

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Barack von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens

Barack von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens Caravan of Lies Never underestimate the disingenuousness of top U.S.-American politicos.   They truly have no shame. Notice how little the fascistic president Donald Trump has to say any more about the big bad Central American Caravan that was supposedly menacing the United […]

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Ottawa, Yemen and Guardian

Ottawa, Yemen and Guardian One has to admire the Canadian government’s manipulation of the media regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Despite being partners with the Kingdom’s international crimes, the Liberals have managed to convince some gullible folks they are challenging Riyadh’s rights abuses. By downplaying Ottawa’s support for violence in Yemen while amplifying Saudi reaction to an innocuous […]

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Woolsey Fire Burns Toxic Santa Susana Reactor Site

Woolsey Fire Burns Toxic Santa Susana Reactor Site Photo Source NASA MODIS (TERRA Satellite) | CC BY 2.0 “A common denominator, in every single nuclear accident … is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, ‘There’s no danger to the public.’ They do this before they themselves know […]

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Nuclear Weapons are a Nightmare Made in America

Nuclear Weapons are a Nightmare Made in America Photo Source International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | CC BY 2.0 What transforms American elections from participatory politics into farce is the exclusion of crucial issues. Environmental crisis, the threat of nuclear annihilation and the wildly skewed distribution of political and economic power will affect how […]

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Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty

Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty Photo Source BLMIdaho | CC BY 2.0 The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank’s new book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. As my wife Chelsea and I drove through Arizona on our annual pilgrimage from California to Montana, orange smoke […]

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Build in a Fire Plain, Get What You Deserve

Build in a Fire Plain, Get What You Deserve Photo Source Robert Couse-Baker | CC BY 2.0 My girlfriend and I are trying to figure out a place to live, build a cabin. Somewhere in our native country probably, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, the land we know best, beloved to us. We […]

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Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity

Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity Photo Source Ninara | CC BY 2.0 Let me tell you about why I woke up crying today. It has to do with just how close we are to full-blown climate disaster. I was thinking about children who are already experiencing the horrible consequences […]

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The Colonial Logic of Geoengineering’s “Last Resort”

The Colonial Logic of Geoengineering’s “Last Resort” As panic starts to set in about what little time we have to avert catastrophic climate change, elites have begun in earnest to drum up support for geoengineering fixes – including the fix of injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere. The basic idea behind this relatively cheap, “cost […]

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Fracking in the UK

Fracking in the UK Burning fossil fuels is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), and, greenhouse gas emissions (water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O)) are the principle cause of man-made climate change. Given this fact, governments throughout the world should be moving away from fossil fuels and investing […]

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The Zika Scare: a Political and Commercial Maneuver of the Chemical Poisons Industry

The Zika Scare: a Political and Commercial Maneuver of the Chemical Poisons Industry Aedes aegypti mosquito potentially carrying the Zika virus. Courtesy Wikipedia. Researchers discovered the Zika virus in the Zika forest of Uganda – in 1947. It is a virus not much different than the viruses causing dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile fever, and […]

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Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor

Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 Facebook and other social media companies give governments free reign to censor political dissent on their websites – and that is not “fake news.” Facebook’s unholy alliance with government actors includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. These […]

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Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change

Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change The warning from the world’s top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a due and dire recognition of the great task in front of us. What must […]

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