USA

The Pentagon is staring down the barrel of what could become the longest, hottest war in U.S. history. This titanic clash pits the largest military the world has ever seen against an omnipresent opponent that can marshal resources like no enemy it has ever encountered.

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Capitalism

Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be “Good Business” - Review of Falter by Bill McKibben (Henry Holt and Co., 2019).

13/08/19

Author:

Paul Fleckenstein

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Jacobin Magazine

Bill McKibben accepts the EMA Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during the 23rd Annual Environmental Media Awards at Warner Bros. Studios on October 19, 2013 in Burbank, California. (Michael Buckner / Getty Images)

Climate activist and writer Bill McKibben's new book is an excellent account of how urgent the climate crisis in front of us is. But it stumbles in trying to prescribe green capitalist solutions to a problem that requires systematic change.

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Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists? - Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis

07/08/19

Author:

Aviva Chomsky

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Common Dreams

Despite challenges from parts of both the labor and the environmental movements, which its sponsors had undoubtedly hoped would be among its strongest supporters, Markey and Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal resolution has gone a remarkably long way toward putting a genuine discussion of what an effective and just climate policy might look like in the public arena for the first time. (Photo: Emelia Gold)

This article contains some rare information and analysis about U.S. unions' positions on the Green New Deal and the climate disruption crisis in general.

Published onTuesday, August 06, 2019 by TomDispatch

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can’t Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle.

06/08/19

Author:

Natasha Lennard

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The Intercept

On Aug. 4, 2019, a man places an American flag on a makeshift memorial outside the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting occurred the previous day.

August 5 2019

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Lifeboat Earth - Is China or the Green New Deal the Answer to Climate Change?

02/08/19

Author:

John Feffer

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Nation of Change

[This is a very interesting article. But you have to persist to get to the part about the GND. - Gene McGuckin]

July 31, 2019

SOURCE Tom Dispatch

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Harris and Ocasio-Cortez release climate equity bill to protect the most at-risk communities from climate change

30/07/19

Author:

Ruth Milka

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Nation of Change

Image Credit: Corey Torpie/Courtesy of the Ocasio-Cortez Campaign

July 30, 2019

"Climate change represents not only the greatest threat to our species, but one of our greatest economic opportunities."

Senator and presidential-hopeful Kamala Harris and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have partnered to propose a bill that would target communities that are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

The Climate Equity Act would “ensure that the United States government makes communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis the foundation of policy related to climate and the environment.”

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Open Borders Must Be Part of Any Response to the Climate Crisis

23/07/19

Author:

Ben Ehrenreich

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The Nation

The alternative is the death of millions and a world fractured by nationalism.

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'Protesters as terrorists': growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime

08/07/19

Author:

Susie Cagle

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The Guardian

Conservative lawmakers have put forward laws criminalizing protests in at least 18 states since 2017 that civil liberties advocates say are unconstitutional

8 Jul 2019