USA

Dec. 5, 2023

America has no idea how to live after the end of fossil fuels. When the country is ready to listen, ecosocialism can provide the answers it needs

December 12, 2023  

It’s happening: the city of Albuquerque (population 1 million) is permanently eliminating public bus fares, becoming the largest US city to embrace this critical step toward racial and economic equity. A coalition headed by Together for Brothers – a community-organizing and power-building group led by and for young men of color – made the victory possible.

The article below is about the US housing market, but we need similar legislation in Canada--to reduce purchase prices AND rents. Regarding rents, we need to get rid or Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), which mean renters don't even have a landlord/lady to deal with, just a big business.

            -- Gene McGuckin

Dec. 11, 2023

Dec. 8, 2023

As the crisis unfolds, the brute exercise of power by the U.S. and Israel has catalyzed world reactions. A significant transformation in global diplomacy is underway.

original to  ScheerPost

Dec. 5, 2023

In a sign of instability in Beijing’s top ranks, foreign policy and defense officials are vanishing as Xi roots out perceived enemies.

Something is rotten in the imperial court of Chairman Xi Jinping. 

While the world is distracted by war in the Middle East and Ukraine, a Stalin-like purge is sweeping through China’s ultra-secretive political system, with profound implications for the global economy and even the prospects for peace in the region.

Nov. 29, 2023

The far right plan to remake America. They even wrote it down.

It’s not like we haven’t been warned.

Should the Republican presidential nominee (likely Donald Trump) win the election next year, conservatives have been pretty clear about what they intend to do. In fact, explicitly clear.

But . . . . "the devil is in the details​"   and . . . ."In total, over US$400 million was announced. So far, that’s about 0.1 per cent of what’s needed each year, developing countries say, pointing to needs of at least US$400 billion."

Nov. 30, 2023

Nov. 27, 2023

U.S. oil and gas companies extracted record amounts of planet-warming oil and gas in 2023 — a year that was the globe’s hottest in recorded history. 

New reporting from The Guardian on Monday found that the U.S. government is planning for oil and gas production levels to stay at “near-record levels” until mid-century.