War/military

02/10/23
Author: 
John Helmer, Moscow
KICK START OR KICK OVER — CAN THE US DEFEAT RUSSIA IN THE LITHIUM BATTERY WAR?

Sept. 28, 2023

In January of this year the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the reserves of the nine leading countries in the world which mine lithium, the new fuel to power electric batteries. Chile led, followed by Australia, Argentina, China, and the US which claims to have one million tonnes. Russia was left out of the USGS chart.

01/10/23
Author: 
Vipal Monga
Flying over the Hudson Bay Lowlands to the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario.

Sept. 28, 2023

$67 Billion of Rare Minerals Is Buried Under One of the World’s Biggest Carbon Sinks

A fight is brewing in Canada about how, or whether, to dig out materials essential for EV batteries that lie deep beneath vast peat bogs

The pace of the global transition to electric vehicles depends on the future of a remote region in Canada known as the Ring of Fire.

22/09/23
Author: 
Margaret Kimberley
 Joe Biden during 2020 campaign (Image: courtesy CNN)

Aug. 30, 2023

The climate emergency won't end because of heartfelt pleas to the people and the interests who created the crisis. Ecocide will stop when capitalism ends.

“No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.”
Joe Biden February 9, 2020

23/08/23
Author: 
Sidney Coles
Kai Nagata, communications director at Dogwood BC, presenting at the third annual Peace and Unity Summit.

Aug. 17, 2023

Presentation highlights darker truths behind violence and intimidation against Indigenous land defenders resisting resource extraction

16/08/23
Author: 
Paul Fleckenstein and Gareth Dale
 rawpixel - fire and figure walking in front
Aug. 16, 2023
 

Degrowth identifies and critiques growth as fundamental to the capitalist system. Growth enriches property owners and the wealthy, leaving the rest of humanity behind with devastating environmental consequences. Tempest member Paul Fleckenstein interviews Gareth Dale on the politics of degrowth and the critique of the ideology of growth in capitalist society.

 
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.

16/07/23
Author: 
Grey Anderson and Thomas Meaney
Virginia Mayo/Associated Press

Jul 11, 2023

NATO leaders convening this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, have every reason to toast their success.

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