Finding Her Voice In a Deaf "Homeland"
By Priti Gulati Cox / 27 September 2018
Our "liberal" media push back when riled up MAGAheads spit venom laced with ignorance and stupidity. But the same media turn a deaf ear to the many articulate voices for justice and accountability that have been rising from all across this fracked nation, in their respective communities. And while the media spends its umpteenth week covering, non-stop, what the Poor People's Campaign co-chair Rev. Dr. William Barber has described as "Trump porn," the words of unknown mothers like Theresa... Read more
Puerto Rico's Unnatural Disaster Rolls On Into Year Two
By Paul Cox and Stan Cox / 19 September 2018
One year ago, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, one of the most disaster-vulnerable parts of the United States. In the days leading up to this anniversary, the U.S. president, backed up by his FEMA director, made cruel, petty, false claims about the death toll, mocking the grief of many thousands of people who lost loved ones in the storm and its aftermath. Donald Trump's dismissal of all victims who weren't slain directly by Maria's violence— crushed by a falling tree, carried to their... Read more
Book Review: New York 2140
By R. Burke / 09 September 2018
It has been said that science fiction is not about the future, but a way of commenting on the present. With that in mind contemplate a vision of New York City in 2140. The seas have risen, and downtown Manhattan is flooded like Venice. The streets have become canals, and boats have replaced cars and busses. Skywalks between buildings have replaced sidewalks. The wealthy have fled uptown, living in "superscrapers" made possible by new building materials. In the "intertidal" zone of lower... Read more
The Air-Conditioning Debate Isn't Really About Air-Conditioning
By Stan Cox / 07 September 2018
Jacobin recently published an article calling for a national and worldwide expansion of air-conditioning usage. In it the writer, Leigh Phillips, used the suffering of economically and ecologically stressed people and communities during heat waves as a rationale for doubling down on a technology that, at the same time it's cooling the indoors today, is heating up the outdoors of tomorrow. So to assuage such climate concerns, he went on to call for a far-reaching expansion of nuclear power. I... Read more
Venezuela: Roundup – 3- Details of Electricity War exposed, saboteurs detained, imperialist economic war widens
By Countercurrents Staff / 13 March 2019
Details of the Electricity War, part of a plan to incite unrest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the ruling party, have been exposed. President Maduro has presented details of the attacks on the country's electricity supply system. The three phases of attacks, according to President Maduro were as follows: Cybernetic attack: It was made on the computerized system of the company... Read more
https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/12/venezuela-roundup-3-details-of-electricit...
We Need To Live Differently
By Simon Pirani / 11 March 2019
Governments have signed agreements with one hand and poured tens of billions of dollars per year in subsidies into fossil fuel production and consumption with the other. The first step to dealing with climate change is to reject the illusion that governments are dealing with the problem. Society as a whole must act.
https://roarmag.org/essays/climate-change-technology-society-economy/
A Green New Deal Must Not Be Tied to Economic Growth
By Giorgos Kallis / 10 March 2019
The Green New Deal narrative risks reproducing the hegemonic ideology of capitalist growth, which has created the problem of climate change in the first place.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-green-new-deal-must-not-be-tied-to-economic-grow...
The Oily Trinity: How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Are Automating the Climate Crisis
By Brian Merchant / 10 March 2019
"Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have all struck lucrative arrangements—collectively worth billions of dollars—to provide automation, cloud, and AI services to some of the world's biggest oil companies, and they are actively pursuing more. These deals, many of which were made just last year, at what may be the height of public awareness of the threats posed by climate change, are explicitly aimed... Read more
https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-automating-the-1832790...
There's Nothing Radical About the Green New Deal
By Kristine Mattis / 06 March 2019
Our insatiable yearning for more has left us with less of the one thing upon which our entire lives depend: the natural world We are at the precipice of ecological collapse. There are no two ways about it. And despite what you hear, it is about far more than just catastrophic climate change. In a nutshell, our current biological predicament is the result of overuse of natural resources beyond... Read more
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/01/theres-nothing-radical-about-green...
For a Fighting Ecological Trade-Unionism
By Daniel Tanuro / 04 March 2019
The ITUC wants to believe that a "democratic governance" integrating the "just transition" would open up "new opportunities," that it would create massively "green jobs," good and "decent." This is wishful thinking. Capital invested in the "energy transition" in no way derogates from the ruthless capitalist offensive against wages, working conditions and trade unions. Germany is at the forefront... Read more
https://socialistproject.ca/2019/03/for-a-fighting-ecological-trade-unionism/
How We, the People, Can Save the Planet
By Gary Null and Richard Gale / 04 March 2019
The recent release of the proposed Green New Deal is a template, an outline identifying some of the most crucial issues facing the nation regarding climate change and a wish list of measures to address those issues. But there are plenty of legitimate criticisms too, and progressives would be wise not to let their desire to see pro-environmental legislation enacted at last blind them to the very... Read more
https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/02/how-we-the-people-can-save-the-planet/