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07/08/23
Author: 
Douglas Macgregor
America’s proxy war with Russia has transformed Ukraine into a graveyard.

Aug 1, 20231:00 PM

America’s proxy war with Russia has transformed Ukraine into a graveyard.

Incrementalism—the tendency to inch forward rather than to take bold steps—is usually preferred by political and military leaders in warfare, because the introduction of a few forces into action puts fewer personnel at risk, and, in theory, promises a series of improvements over time, often through attrition.

06/08/23
Author: 
Benjamin Shingler
Air quality in Windsor, Ont., was among the worst in the world in late June, as wildfires raged in northeastern Canada and Quebec. Here, the Detroit skyline is barely visible through smoke and haze on June 29. (Dax Melmer/CBC)

Jul. 13, 2023

When tallying the economic toll of climate change, flooding tops the list in Canada. But the wildfire smoke that has blanketed many parts of North America this summer also comes with a financial cost.

02/08/23
Author: 
Ann Garrison
Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Jul 31, 2023

Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines - Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Following is an interview conducted by Ann Garrison with Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, about the virtual slave labor in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s cobalt mines.

02/08/23
Author: 
Joel Stronberg, originally published by Civil Notion
photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash
July 31, 2023

As if we needed more reminders of the impacts of Earth’s warming, it’s being reported:

that climate change is destabilizing the insurance industry, driving up prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets.”

23/07/23
Author: 
Primary Author: Compiled by Mitchell Beer
gas fired power plant - Peoplepoweredbyenergy/Wikimedia Commons

July 18, 2023

Natural gas can carry as severe a climate impact as coal, a new study from the United States warned late last week, just as an Ontario power producer proposed a new gas-fired generating station in the Niagara Region city of Thorold.

20/07/23
Author: 
David GellesPhotographs by Erin Schaff Reporting from Puerto Rico.
Missy Sims, a lawyer with Milberg, one of the biggest class-action firms in the world, at a cemetery in Lares, P.R.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

July 19, 2023

A lawyer started small with a creative tactic. It grew into an effort that could force fossil fuel companies to pay hundreds of billions in damages.

Missy Sims carefully picked her way through a field of ruined tombs in central Puerto Rico, in a cemetery where walls of water from Hurricane Maria had smashed open some coffins and sent others careering into a nearby stream.

Six years later, the burial place in Lares, where more than 1,700 graves were damaged, is still shattered.

16/07/23
Author: 
Dianne Mathiowetz, Workers World
Photo: Credit: Housing Justice League, Facebook.

Jul 15, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia – Tenants and housing activists packed the Neighborhood Church in East Atlanta July 8 for a People’s Town Hall to launch a statewide effort to overturn a Georgia law that forbids any rent control measures from being enacted in any jurisdiction.

People traveled from around the state, coming from small towns and large cities like Valdosta near the Florida border, Columbus and Albany. Atlanta and its suburbs were well represented.

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