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08/02/19
Author: 
Laura Kane
The Canadian Press

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says his state shares concerns with British Columbia about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and will continue to voice its objections any way it can.

Inslee made the comments at a joint news conference in Seattle on Thursday with B.C. Premier John Horgan, who is visiting the state to discuss partnerships on endangered killer whales, clean energy and high-speed rail.

08/02/19
Author: 
Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos
 A Green New Deal that is big and bold enough could end the arbitrary power of the few over the many. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUM/Rex Shutterstock

Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to redefine freedom in the face of war. The Green New Deal imagines goals for a colorful democracy

One of the biggest challenges of climate politics is that the solutions seem scarier than the problem. We worry that to truly decarbonize, we’d need an authoritarian government or endless austerity. But a big and bold enough Green New Deal could finally make us truly free.

07/02/19
Author: 
Kate Aronoff
Sunrise Movement protesters advocate that Democrats support the Green New Deal inside the office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 10, 2018. Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

THE FIRST HAND of the Green New Deal has been dealt. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Thursday unveiled a five-page, nonbinding resolution that frames a 10-year “national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization” to confront the climate crisis.

06/02/19
Author: 
NA

Resources - Recursos - Venezuela - 2/2019

 

Venezuelanalysis - https://venezuelanalysis.com/   (English)

teleSUR - https://www.telesurtv.net/ (English/Espanol)

Resumen Latinoamericano - www.resumenlatinoamericano.org (Espanol)

06/02/19
Author: 
Redfish

 

[Web page editor's note: Similar numbers of people voted for Nicolas Maduro in the last presidential election in Venezuela (6.3 million) as for Justin Trudeau's Liberals in the last parliamentary election in Canada (6.9 million). The Liberals received 39.5% of the popular vote, and with a turnout rate of 68.5% they got 27.2% of registered voters  - well below Maduro's 31.7%. Source of numbers for Canada: Wikipedia. ]

Category: 
01/02/19
Author: 
Scott Waldman
EPA - Credit: Getty Images

John Christy has advocated for the repeal of regulations on greenhouse gas emissions

February 1, 2019

The Earth will benefit from burning more fossil fuels and regulations on greenhouse gases must be challenged, one of EPA’s newest science advisers said yesterday.

01/02/19
Author: 
Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal
Making of Juan Guaidó
January 29, 2019
 
Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization.
27/01/19
Author: 
Socialist Project

 

[Click here to listen to the  discussion at this public meeting in Toronto on Jan 26]

[See also the statement by the Democratic Socialists of America further below]

Speak out against the ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela and the U.S. and Canadian government’s support!

24/01/19
Author: 
LA Times Editorial Board

....by this time next year the flow of plastic containers, cups, lids and utensils from restaurants, fast food outlets and other businesses serving prepared food within city limits will have virtually stopped...

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