September 7, 2008
From "Dominion" to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew Scully
From "Dominion" to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew Scully By Dr. Steve Best, Ph.D. Mathew Scully (pictured here between two of his fellow enthusiastic enablers of war crimes, Michael Gerson [left] and David Frum), is not just a hypocrite or opportunist. He is a menace to all life, beings,...
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June 19, 2008
Disaster Capitalism on a Grand Scale
Disaster Capitalism on a Grand Scale As the cost of food and fuel spirals out of control, and the mortgage and credit crises all strike at a global level, one has to ask if this is a "perfect storm" or a manufactured opportunity - or both....
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June 14, 2008
World rice shortage
World rice shortage By Marina Johnson "They're taking no chances with this year's harvest on the farms in Supamburri. Alongside the heavy machinery, there's a new feature: shotguns. The message is clear: Hand off my rice." ITV News Correspondent, Inigo Gilmore ("Rising Food...
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April 23, 2008
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food Food riots turn deadly in Haiti. Food riots fear after rice price hits a high. And so it starts. Globally there has been roughly a 25% increase in food prices. In some areas - such as Haiti - food...
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April 22, 2008
Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished...
Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished... By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner (As inspired by a conversation with Derrick Jensen) "There's got to be just more to it than this; Or tell me why do we exist?" -Iron Maiden We in the Western "developed" nations,...
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March 13, 2008
How Does Tomorrow Dream?
How Does Tomorrow Dream? As the global struggle for power and resources continues, and as we mark the fifth anniversary of the United States' war of choice, this message from John Trudell rings true in one's heart. Thanks to Kelly for finding and sharing...
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February 3, 2008
Who Wins, Oil or Arctic?
Who Wins, Oil or Arctic? Whether to open the Chukchi Sea to exploratory oil drilling now rests in the hands Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne. He plans on opening 20 million acres of the Chukchi Sea for leasing on February 6, 2008. The Chukchi...
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January 12, 2008
The Year of the Bear: Reflections on the Daunting Challenges of 2008
The Year of the Bear: Reflections on the Daunting Challenges of 2008 By Carla Royal republished from Speaking Truth to Power On New Year's Eve I went to a friend's house. A few of us gathered in the middle of the afternoon to bring in the New Year with quiet contemplation, ritual,...
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December 24, 2007
Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We're on the Highway to Hell--Don't Stop Us!
Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We're on the Highway to Hell--Don't Stop Us! By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "We are riding alongside Angus and Malcolm Young on the 'Highway to Hell.'" We "Free World" capitalistic Westerners are a loathsome lot--or to put it more crudely, we suck. When one considers how...
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December 5, 2007
Redefining 'Positive':Collapse from Beyond the Human-Centric Perspective
Redefining 'Positive':Collapse from Beyond the Human-Centric Perspective By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This article is an excerpt from Carolyn's forthcoming book The Spirituality Of Collapse: Restoring Life On A Dying Planet. If we do not soon remember ourselves to our sensuous surroundings, if we...
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November 27, 2007
Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture
Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "Again, if PETA is putting something out, I will always have my doubts - they see things one way and one way only. Theirs. In many ways the activists in this country are...
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November 19, 2007
Middle Class Angst: The Politics of Lemmings
Middle Class Angst: The Politics of Lemmings By Stan Goff writing for Speaking Truth to Power Suburbia is also a spiritual wasteland, a place where the wonder of nature is desecrated ubiquitously with corporate logos and all the artifacts of late technological society. There is a common...
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November 18, 2007
Oil and Climate
Oil and Climate By Marilyse Crise de l'énergie et changements climatiques, La fortune et la famine, La Fontaine, 18 novembre 2007 Energy crisis and climate change, wealth and famine, La Fontaine, November 18th, 2007...
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May 5, 2007
Of Surges and Purges
Of Surges and Purges I share with many of you a growing sense of anger and frustration at the constantly worsening situation in Iraq. Now, the "surge" is in place, and "gated communities" are being delineated over the objections of both Shia and Sunni...
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May 1, 2007
Energy Depletion and Immigration
Energy Depletion and Immigration Our Congress has produced a draconian new immigration bill that would attempt to close US borders and severely oppress immigrants—particularly illegal immigrants—within this country. These efforts have resulted in a new civil rights movement, which has grown virtually overnight to...
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March 19, 2007
Are Labor Unions Terrorists?
Are Labor Unions Terrorists? By Dale Allen Pfeiffer of Mountain Sentinel Two recent news stories, taken together, could signal an ominous turn in the invasion of Iraq. The first story appeared on the Time website on February 28th.1 It discusses Iraqi opposition to government...
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December 22, 2006
Of Wealth and Death
Of Wealth and Death The headlines read: Richest 2 Percent Own Half the World's Wealth; Richest 2% Hold Half the World's Assets; India's 40 million shopkeepers brace for Wal-Mart effect; Nike's dilemma: Is doing the right thing wrong? - child labor in Pakistan; The...
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November 18, 2006
Shall The Cradle Fall?
Shall The Cradle Fall? Africa, the home of the human race. Science indicates she birthed us. She nurtured our infancy. Some went out from her to spread across the Earth. Others stayed and continued an unbroken relationship with our birthplace. Africa was, and is,...
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October 18, 2006
EPA Program Protecting the Poor Is Cut
EPA Program Protecting the Poor Is Cut The EPA is cutting protections for poor and minority communities while "promising" to protect them more. The Bush administration has shown no such "compassionate conservativism" thus far in one and half terms in office. The Seattle Post Intelligencer agrees with...
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October 16, 2006
Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus
Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus By Jeremy of Biohabit.org http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004799.html What really threatens us? How do we truly make ourselves safer? The Cato Institute (a conservative thinktank) has released an outstanding paper, A False Sense of Insecurity (PDF), which makes the point that in any...
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October 15, 2006
Finally An Acknowledgement of Oil's Role in Darfur
Finally An Acknowledgement of Oil's Role in Darfur The International Crisis group has released its report on ending the Darfur crisis. Central in those findings is sanctioning the oil industry....
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September 27, 2006
I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations
I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations... Fascism the American Way Relentless indoctrination by a vast corporate media complex has convinced many that the United States of America is an exceptional nation. Charged with...
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September 22, 2006
The Global Warming Snowball
The Global Warming Snowball Reading the news, it seems clear that global warming has become a snow ball rolling down hill gathering both size and speed. It seems that there is no good news to be had, and each new study and report is...
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September 19, 2006
Darfur Hypocrisy
Darfur Hypocrisy Around the world millions have rallied or expressed their demand that the humanitarian disaster continuing in Darfur stop (Council on Foreign Relations, 9/19/06). President Bush is supposedly concerned about the situation in Darfur, and urged the UN to take action....
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September 14, 2006
Inconvenient Heroes - The Survivors of 9/11/01
Inconvenient Heroes - The Survivors of 9/11/01 Having just passed the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, and having watched at least four programs on the ongoing health issues of first responders, and those near the World Trade Center, I wonder about living versus dead heroes....
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September 6, 2006
The Meaning Of Things
The Meaning Of Things I recently re-read Sherri S. Tepper's book The Visitor (2002). While I recommend Tepper as an exceptional author, and think this is a great book, I am not writing a book review, but addressing an idea that comes up in...
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August 24, 2006
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc.
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc. By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers. They sign agreements with us and then ignore...
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June 10, 2006
Slow Growth, Inflation? Raise Interest Rates
Slow Growth, Inflation? Raise Interest Rates According to the NY Times, the Fed Makes It Clear That Rates Will Rise Again: "SIGNS of slower economic growth, paradoxically, would normally have been welcome news this week, bolstering the idea that the Federal Reserve would stop tightening the...
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June 7, 2006
Of Water, Human Beings and Other "Worthless" Commodities
Of Water, Human Beings and Other "Worthless" Commodities BY GUEST AUTHOR: JASON MILLER How Capitalism Unleashes the Beast of Soulless Avarice Jinshan Mining Ltd, a leading mineral extraction corporation based in China, has officially announced its ground-breaking technology for extracting gold from the water supply in the United...
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May 17, 2006
Global Warming: Who Lives Who Dies?
Global Warming: Who Lives Who Dies? It seems easy sitting in the most consuming, capitalist nation in the world to think that global warming is not a big deal. There is a belief that no matter what nature throws this way that "technology" can handle it....
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April 26, 2006
Have a Koch and a Smile
Have a Koch and a Smile BY: Jason Miller Have a Koch and a Smile: Free Markets and Property Rights Trump Humanity and the Environment! So long as the markets are free and the rich stay that way, human suffering and environmental devastation are irrelevant. Beneath...
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March 25, 2006
Africa, here we come (again...)
Africa, here we come (again...) Reading from Reuters:Oil producing countries not aligned to OPEC are set to add more than five million barrels a day to world supply by 2010, although this may rise if prices remain high, a leading industry analyst said. Much of...
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March 5, 2006
Blood and Oil In Nigeria
Blood and Oil In Nigeria 3/05/06 Ken Wiwa, Guardian, Death rules the delta in battle to control oil In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information...
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March 1, 2006
The F.I.R. Project
The F.I.R. ProjectThe Forest Image Registry Project is particularly the brain child of Harlan Weikle a.k.a. The Naked Vegetarian. Also involved, so far, are myself, Andrew Turner of Green Roof Resource, and Jeff McIntire-Stasburg of Sustainablog.
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February 27, 2006
Globalization's Effects on Developing World Agriculture Systems
Globalization's Effects on Developing World Agriculture SystemsIt is no secret that modern, industrial agriculture is based on a global infrastructure. Globalization has changed agriculture almost everywhere that food is bought, sold, grown, and produced, but its effects on local agricultural systems in the developing world have been staggering. It has drastically affected the environments, economies, and cultures of these nations in ways that are already clear but will no doubt become even clearer as time passes.
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February 25, 2006
Civil War or Genocide In Iraq?
Civil War or Genocide In Iraq? All hell has broken loose in Iraq. The bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samarra on February 22, 2005. The shrine is one of the holiest of Shi'ite sites. In the ensuing days, riots, peace marches, and further attacks on...
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February 21, 2006
National Forests For Sale To Fund Rural Schools
National Forests For Sale To Fund Rural SchoolsSecure Rural Schools Forest Service FY 2007 Initiative - The FY 2007 President's Budget proposes to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools program for another five years. To help fund this initiative, the Administration recommends selling a limited number of acres of National Forest System lands around the nation. Lands that are potentially eligible have been identified and are displayed in a table here.
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February 19, 2006
Katrina Is Not History
Katrina Is Not History As the investigation into the failed response to Hurricane Katrina drags on, we see what has become a pattern of graft, cronyism, incompetence. FEMA's almost billion dollar purchase of mobile and modular homes largely sit decaying in a filed in...
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February 17, 2006
Global Warming Is Accelerating
Global Warming Is Accelerating There are a flurry of articles coming out about the acceleration of global warming. This is because of the reports coming out of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Conference which is currently in session (2.16-2.20) in...
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February 13, 2006
State of the Earth
State of the Earth BY: Anwaar Hussain of Fountainhead In 1 AD, we humans were estimated to be around 300,000,000. In 1850, we first passed the 1 billion mark. We were 3.9 billion on January 1 of 1970 and today we number 6.9 billion....
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February 12, 2006
South America Flexes Its Muscles
South America Flexes Its Muscles There is an interesting sea change that is occurring in South America. One by one, countries are swinging left and reclaiming resources in the name of the people. They are also attempting to set their own terms with the United...
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February 9, 2006
The People Rise Up
The People Rise Up The people of the planet are rising up to fight the forces of corporatization that is stripping the resources from under their feet. In India, water has become the rallying point. India's people have launched a campaign against water privatization....
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February 8, 2006
The Twin Plagues - Inequality and War
The Twin Plagues - Inequality and War David Swanson originally posted at CounterPunch Ending the extreme inequality of wealth and well-being in the United States would end the war in Iraq. Ending the war in Iraq and others like it would go a long way toward reducing...
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January 6, 2006
The Cost of Cronyism
The Cost of Cronyism Merriam Webster cronyism: partiality to cronies especially as evidenced in the appointment of political hangers-on to office without regard to their qualifications MoneyGlossary cronyism: Favoritism to a friend. What are the costs of cronyism? Well, death and disaster are heading...
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December 31, 2005
More Bad News Ahead
More Bad News Ahead How far do greenhouse gas emissions need to drop in order to change the global warming path we are on? According to Guy Brasseur, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology 80 to90%. Well that level of emissions decrease would mean stopping...
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December 30, 2005
The Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan Pipeline
The Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan Pipeline Picture from Global Guerrillas The Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan Pipeline project is expected to cost $4 billion. The politics of conflict and enmeshment follow the course of the pipeline and spread beyond it. Other pipelines (existing and planned) will connect to...
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December 9, 2005
Global Warming Up, Agreements Down
Global Warming Up, Agreements Down The U.N. Climate Change Summit in Montreal looks like it is going nowhere fast. Perhaps they do not realize the critical pace at which global warming is preceding. Such as the retreat of Greenland's glaciers, or the dramatic slowing of...
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December 8, 2005
New Orleans Katrina Victims Speak Out
New Orleans Katrina Victims Speak Out There are a number of hearings happening in Washington right now on the response to, and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. C-Span has the streaming videos of a number of the now available. Of the testimony that I have seen, there...
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December 6, 2005
Looming Food Crisis
Looming Food Crisis According to a study from the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 40% of the planet is under cultivation. This compares to an estimated 7% in 1700, and is beyond the limit where it...
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November 28, 2005
Oil Costs Hit Middle Class
Oil Costs Hit Middle Class The cost of heating oil and natural gas are starting to hit the middle class. According to an article in the NY Times - Middle Class Gets in Line for Help With Rising Heating Bills, people who have never showed...
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November 25, 2005
China's Toxic Spills - A New Chapter In An Old Story
China's Toxic Spills - A New Chapter In An Old Story On November 22,2005, the BBC reported that Harbin, China was shutting off its water supply for four days. While the official story from Chinese authorities was that the water mains needed maintenance, this was a cover up for an explosion...
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November 20, 2005
Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least
Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least A report released by the World Health Organization says that 150,000 people a year are dying from the effects of global warming, and that number could double in the next 15 years. The report is discussed in a Washington Post...
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November 18, 2005
EPA To Allow Pesticide Testing On Orphans And Mentally Handicapped Children
EPA To Allow Pesticide Testing On Orphans And Mentally Handicapped Children This alert comes from the Organic Consumers Association Send a letter to EPA here! Note: Concerns about Snopes or other questions are answered here Friday, November 18, 2005 Public Comment Period for this rule Closes December 12, 2005 Public comments...
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November 8, 2005
The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal President Bush finished his tour of Latin America with a stop in Panama. One might wonder what stories Papa Bush told him of the invasion he had ordered for Panama's "regime change" - the ousting of Manuel Norriega. Regardless, the...
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November 2, 2005
Global Warming And Poverty - Not A One Way Street
Global Warming And Poverty - Not A One Way Street The title reads UN Warns of Poverty as World's Lakes Evaporate. The story goes that the warming climate is drying up lakes around the world, as they dry up the poverty of the populations dependent on them also increases -...
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October 31, 2005
Rebuilding The South With Immigrant Sweat: Business As Usual
Rebuilding The South With Immigrant Sweat: Business As Usual In the wake of hurricane Katrina, Bush swore to rebuild New Orleans (and one presumes the rest of the hurricane devastated area). No bid contracts were handed out to the usual crew of military favorites - including Halliburton. To speed...
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October 28, 2005
Evangelical Platform: Homosexuals, Abortion, and Global Warming?
Evangelical Platform: Homosexuals, Abortion, and Global Warming?On last week's Living on Earth, which you should really be listening to anyway, Reverend Richard Cizik, director of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, laid out his organization's plan for helping the environment.
No, seriously. Stop laughing!
I'm as shocked as you are, but as Cizik points out, any biblical Christian really SHOULD care about the environment.
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October 22, 2005
Bush's and Birds: Avian Flu Pandemic Possibilities
Bush's and Birds: Avian Flu Pandemic Possibilities One of the major health problems threatening the world at this point is the Avian (or Bird) Flu. It is clear that it is spreading - UK, Greece, East Africa- and there is a new outbreak in China. Australia is...
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September 17, 2005
Isn't Reoccupying New Orleans Premature?
Isn't Reoccupying New Orleans Premature? Doesn't it seem to be a bit premature to be reoccupying New Orleans? The talk is that businesses are cleaning up and getting ready to reopen. Word is a couple of hotels are ready to go. Up to 186,000 residents,...
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September 16, 2005
The Invisible Victims of Katrina
The Invisible Victims of Katrina The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has brought the issues of race and class into high relief. As is typical of the cultural ideology of racism, the issue is drawn in Black and White. Underneath this cultural dichotomy lies the...
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September 12, 2005
The Gulf After Katrina - An Environmental Disaster
The Gulf After Katrina - An Environmental Disaster Regardless of the brave words that New Orleans will rebuild, there is a reality of an environmental disaster that may make the entire region unlivable for a long time. The U.S. Gulf coast, as well as the area around New...
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September 8, 2005
Natural Gas Prices To Spike
Natural Gas Prices To Spike If you have been stunned by gasoline cost spikes, then hang onto your hat as natural gas prices could jump 71% this winter. This is bad news for anyone using natural gas for heating, and for gas-fired electric generation. Natural...
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September 6, 2005
Peak Oil and the Working Class
Peak Oil and the Working Class By: Dale Allen Pfeiffer Let us be clear about this from the start. Government, as we know it, is the tool of the privileged class through which they control the masses and provide a favorable environment for their own businesses....
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August 31, 2005
Katrina and Poverty
Katrina and Poverty The news is still incomplete as I write this, but last night news started rolling in of perhaps thousands of people in New Orleans trapped in their attics. Breaking the general calm of a reporter, Jeanne Meserve at CNN tries...
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August 20, 2005
Environment, Globalization, and Genocide
Environment, Globalization, and Genocide The environment is the straight line link between globalization and genocide. The policies and practices of globalization institutions (such as the IMF and World Bank), and the practices of transforming nations for "participation" in a globalized free market capitalist economy,...
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August 11, 2005
Global Warming - Have We Hit the "Tipping Point?"
Global Warming - Have We Hit the "Tipping Point?" The frozen peat tundra of Siberia is thawing, and this will speed global warming. The peat tundra covers about 1 million square miles, and as it thaws tons of methane could be released into the atmosphere. Since global warming predictions...
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August 6, 2005
Peak Oil and Environmental Injustice
Peak Oil and Environmental Injustice There is a gaping hole in most discussions of peak oil and its implications - injustice. Seemingly racial and economic inequality are outside the vision of too many writers and activists. I see this as largely being symptomatic of white...
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July 28, 2005
The Venerable China and U.S. To Work On Climate Change Pact
The Venerable China and U.S. To Work On Climate Change PactStory here. WELL, with the venerable China involved, I'm sure that the U.S. is planning a stunning environmental campaign!
*insert rolling eyes here*
So far, the "clean air act" has decreased smokestack regulations, the "healthy forest act" has increased logging.
Why should I think that this new idea will be any different? Here's to hoping, but I'm not going to count my chickens.
Link to The Venerable China and U.S. To Work On Climate Change Pact | July 28, 2005 7:04 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: | Category: Environmental Justice
July 20, 2005
Justice Nominee Roberts Isn't Environmentally Friendly
Justice Nominee Roberts Isn't Environmentally FriendlyJohn Roberts has been nominated by President Bush as the replacement for Sandra Day on the Supreme Court. So, what should we make of that? The political perspective will be all over the place, and I'm sure his views on abortion and privacy will come into play, but I don't know how much his ideas about environmental protection will be discussed. Therefore, I'll send you to all of the great posts that the green end of the blogosphere is producing:
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July 7, 2005
Global Warming and Developing Nations
Global Warming and Developing Nations Michael McCarthy has a good article in the Independent about the contribution of "developing" nations (i.e. China, India, Brazil) to global warming, and praises Blair for inviting them to the G8 conference. I would agree that they definitely should be...
Link to Global Warming and Developing Nations | July 7, 2005 6:32 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Environmental Justice
June 10, 2005
How Much Will Global Warming Cost? Look At Shishmaref
How Much Will Global Warming Cost? Look At Shishmaref Shishmaref is an island off the coast of Alaska which is the home to roughly 562 Inupiats. The island has been disappearing at a rate of 13 to 22 feet a year. The Army Corps of Engineers will be moving...
Link to How Much Will Global Warming Cost? Look At Shishmaref | June 10, 2005 3:56 PM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Environmental Justice
June 7, 2005
The End of Suburbia
The End of Suburbia There is a new video out that deserves watching (with a caution discussed below) called The End of Suburbia. It focuses on the issue of the creation and ongoing promotion of suburbia in the US and how it both helped...
Link to The End of Suburbia | June 7, 2005 5:41 PM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Environmental Justice
June 2, 2005
Gold, Oil, Diamonds and Death
Gold, Oil, Diamonds and Death Pick up a newspaper, or search the web for news on Africa, and you will find quite literally a "bloody" mess. The drooling dogs of the "developed" world are roaming Africa - still and again. The consequences in nation after...
Link to Gold, Oil, Diamonds and Death | June 2, 2005 11:40 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Environmental Justice
May 30, 2005
Empire and Resistance
Empire and Resistance The people of Bolivia are in the streets over who controls the gas reserves of the nation. They call for the nationalization of Bolivia's gas reserves, after the government essentially signed over those resources to transnational corporations. Even an effort...
Link to Empire and Resistance | May 30, 2005 7:19 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Environmental Justice
May 11, 2005
Bush Is No Environmental President
Bush Is No Environmental President Surely no one ever labored under the belief that Bush is an environmental President, but the latest of round of actions make that perfectly clear. From an "energy" plan that opens ANWR to the opening up over 34 million acres...
Link to Bush Is No Environmental President | May 11, 2005 12:56 PM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Environmental Justice
April 11, 2005
The ANWR Drilling Myth
The ANWR Drilling MythImagine 2,000 acres of this:
Ending up like this:
Well, great. He wants us to drill ANWR. I mean, not that this is surprising, but here's the problem I have with it. It's drilling in a wildlife preserve, first of all, which makes it bad enough. Also, it's oil, which we should be trying to lower our dependence on rather than find more sources of. However, the really stupid thing is this: the article says that "drilling on just 2,000 acres of the vast ANWR would provide access to all of the refuge's estimated 10 billion barrels of oil."
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