Mostly sneezes, reposts, thoughts, rantings, unedited nonsense, and favourite or interesting links and news and passages and quotes and engaging music and film, etc.. Don't expect to like it.
Friday, December 29, 2023
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
What Charles Koch Paid to Elude 70 Years in Prison - Greg Palast
What Charles Koch Paid to Elude 70 Years in Prison - Greg Palast: In 1996, I filmed an investigation that never saw the light of day. It was about the richest guys you’d never heard of, Charles and David Koch—and their theft of a mind-blowing $2 billion in oil from... READ MORE
Monday, December 25, 2023
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Focus on Palestine-Israel conflict: statements, reading lists, online resources
Focus on Palestine-Israel conflict: statements, reading lists, online resources: ERIS members are collecting and listing below statements, reading lists, petitions, and open letters with reference to the Palestine/Israel conflict. Content is continuously updated.
Summary
Academic societies statements
Academic networks, artists, and activists' statements
Petitions and open letters
International Organizations' statements and coverage
Reading list
Blogs
Teach-in and videos
Monday, December 18, 2023
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Friday, December 15, 2023
US Spent $1.1 Trillion of Federal Discretionary Money on Militarism in Past Year | Truthout
US Spent $1.1 Trillion of Federal Discretionary Money on Militarism in Past Year | Truthout: This left less than two-fifths of the discretionary budget for public health, education, the environment, and more.
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Dec. 12, 2023 ❧ A "sick joke" at UN climate summit, Congress re-authorizes FISA surveillance, and a tomato mystery on the ISS
Dec. 12, 2023 ❧ A "sick joke" at UN climate summit, Congress re-authorizes FISA surveillance, and a tomato mystery on the ISS: Plus the IDF assassinates a poet, an insane election abortion ruling in Texas, Hong Kong's "patriots only" election, the EU vs. AI, and Greenland's shark elders
Monday, December 11, 2023
COP Can’t Go On Like This - Heatmap News
COP Can’t Go On Like This - Heatmap News: Geopolitics, the heightened importance of climate change, and the sheer size of the conference have transformed the event into something that it was never meant to be.
The point is clearly to strategize how best to profit from planetary destruction while barely slowing down the ecocidal capitalist machine.
And Here’s to You, Henry Kissinger… - FPIF
And Here’s to You, Henry Kissinger… - FPIF: He was a war criminal, and he also transformed many into activists.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Capitalogenic disease: social determinants in focus | BMJ Global Health
Capitalogenic disease: social determinants in focus | BMJ Global Health: Scholarship on the social determinants of health and disease has become firmly established over the past several decades. This school of thought has created space for academics and health professionals to consider the structural factors that may produce ill health, generate health inequalities and prevent access to healthcare or other goods and services necessary for human welfare.1 Research on social determinants has been developed through attention to ‘structural violence’,2 ‘commercial determinants’3 and the ‘causes of the causes’ of disease.4
These are useful analytical developments. But terms such as structures, commerce and so on are generic descriptors, and it may be useful to further specify the particular political and economic systems that are at stake. This includes paying attention to capitalism and dynamics of capital accumulation. Given that capitalism prevails in nearly every country, and organises the world economy, it seems necessary to develop analytical frameworks that can help us understand and assess its implications for health outcomes, which have been described in existing literature.5
It is important to clarify what we mean by capitalism. People often assu
Bound For Glory (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Union Maid - Turner Classic Movies
Bound For Glory (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Union Maid - Turner Classic Movies: Director Hal Ashby recreates the on-the-spot composition of the union anthemn Union Maid in a California labor camp, David Carradine as Woody Guthrie, Ronny Cox as colleague Ozark Bule, in Bound for Glory, 1976
LEVER WEEKLY: “We’re Talking Five Million People That Could Potentially Be Monitored”
LEVER WEEKLY: “We’re Talking Five Million People That Could Potentially Be Monitored”: From profit mongers eyeing an immigrant surveillance boom to corporate media ignoring Trump’s climate death cult, here’s a roundup of our reporting from the past week.
The era of Full Spectrum Surveillance is already here. . . .
The May 2017 Report Tying Oleg Deripaska to Russian Intelligence - emptywheel
The May 2017 Report Tying Oleg Deripaska to Russian Intelligence - emptywheel: Bill Barr's flunkie, Seth DuCharme, thinks his client Charles McGonigal should get a probation sentence even though he reviewed reports of Oleg Deripaska's Russian intelligence ties before choosing to work for Deripaska.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Dubai oil CEO degenerates COP28 into climate crisis charade – People's World
Dubai oil CEO degenerates COP28 into climate crisis charade – People's World: As predicted, this year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai devolved into a charade of science denial, media criticism, and fossil fuel promotion. COP28 President Al Jaber, also the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), stormed on stage Dec.
Friday, December 8, 2023
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention - EXPOSEDbyCMD
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention - EXPOSEDbyCMD: State lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives got together in Scottsdale, Arizona last week for the 2023 States and Nation Policy Summit hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The summit — one of the largest annual gatherings of the ALEC faithful, along with the summer meeting — caps off ALEC’s 50th anniversary year.
Alarm at plan to stash planet-heating CO2 beneath US national forests | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The Guardian
Alarm at plan to stash planet-heating CO2 beneath US national forests | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The Guardian: Groups seek more time to comment on US Forest Service proposal to store carbon dioxide amid fears over safety and impact
Private Prison Firms Set To Cash In On Immigrant Surveillance Boom
Private Prison Firms Set To Cash In On Immigrant Surveillance Boom: Companies are salivating over a proposal to electronically track millions of people caught up in the U.S. immigration system.
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Israel’s Assassinations Road to Perdition
Israel’s Assassinations Road to Perdition: Netanyahu desperate to shift narrative away from Gaza carnage with targeted killings
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Monday, December 4, 2023
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record high | Climate crisis | The Guardian
(Gulp: this, as USA records highest emissions.)
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record high | Climate crisis | The Guardian: Projected rate of warming has not improved in past two years, analysis shows
Lead on Tap: A Short History of the Failure to Fix One of America’s Worst Water Contamination Crises
Lead on Tap: A Short History of the Failure to Fix One of America’s Worst Water Contamination Crises: Why has it taken so long to fix the lead in tap water crisis? Here's a short history.
Sunday, December 3, 2023
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