Monday, December 25, 2023

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report - Carbon Brief

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report - Carbon Brief

Is the European Central Bank silently walking back on its climate commitments? - Greenpeace International

Is the European Central Bank silently walking back on its climate commitments? - Greenpeace International

Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Poet Mohammed El-Kurd: 'A pen is like a weapon'

The Climate Crisis by the Numbers - The Santa Barbara Independent

The Climate Crisis by the Numbers - The Santa Barbara Independent

Here’s the truth about Sunak’s plans for the North Sea: he will sell out the planet to the dirtiest bidders | George Monbiot | The Guardian

Here’s the truth about Sunak’s plans for the North Sea: he will sell out the planet to the dirtiest bidders | George Monbiot | The Guardian

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come | Climate crisis | The Guardian

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Global heating is accelerating, warns scientist who sounded climate alarm in the 80s | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Global heating is accelerating, warns scientist who sounded climate alarm in the 80s | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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.

Big Racket Man: Donald Trump and the Frankfurt’s school’s ‘racket soci – Verso

Big Racket Man: Donald Trump and the Frankfurt’s school’s ‘racket soci – Verso

Wildfires are thawing the tundra | Popular Science

Wildfires are thawing the tundra | Popular Science

Althusser - an Intellectual Adventure (2017)

Democrats need to 'stop talking bullshit and do something'

Democrats need to 'stop talking bullshit and do something'

Who owned slaves in Congress? A list of 1,800 enslavers in Senate, House history. - Washington Post

Who owned slaves in Congress? A list of 1,800 enslavers in Senate, House history. - Washington Post

Invisible Gas Clouds Are Warming the Poles Faster Than We Predicted – Mother Jones

Invisible Gas Clouds Are Warming the Poles Faster Than We Predicted – Mother Jones

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists | The Nation

Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists | The Nation

The Landlord (1970) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All | The Nation

The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All | The Nation

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.

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.

Socialism Is For Humanity

Socialism Is For Humanity