Mass die-offs and constant crisis will define the brutality of our future as we attempt and fail to adapt to a completely destabilized climate. Mass fish die-off in Vietnam as heat wave roasts Southeast Asia Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in southern Vietn … | Continue reading
A War Against Humanity Itself | Common Dreams Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s “voracious death machine,” its leaders now openly vow “total and utter destruction” by what they still grotesquely call “one of the m … | Continue reading
It has begun! I found this year's cicadas in my garden this morning. Magicicada septendecim, sometimes called the Pharaoh cicada or the 17-year locust, is native to Canada and the United States and is the largest and most northern species of periodical cicada with a 17-year lifec … | Continue reading
Salt Marsh Caterpillar found in my garden this morning. | Continue reading
Violence AGAINST Anti-War Student Protesters Escalates Across The US - YouTube Sam parses through yesterday’s mass escalation of violence against anti-war student protesters on college campuses across the US, with the NYPD sending a SWAT team to infiltrate the Student occupation … | Continue reading
U.S. Hypocrisy Laid Bare as Biden Admin Claims ICC Can’t Prosecute Israel for War Crimes - Democracy Now The Biden administration is claiming the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction to charge Israeli officials for war crimes. This comes after rumors that the ICC may … | Continue reading
The Preacher and the Slave - Wikipedia “The Preacher and the Slave” is a song written by Joe Hill in 1911. It was written as a parody of the Christian hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By”. Copying or using the musical style of the hymn was also a way to capture the emotional resonance o … | Continue reading
There comes a time when the operation of the machine is so odious that you cannot even tacitly participate. You’ve got to place your bodies on the gears, the wheels, all the mechanism. And you’ve got to indicate to those who own it and those who run it that unless you are free, t … | Continue reading
We in the US have forgotten so much about our own history. It’s been sterilized with the dangerous bits removed. Recommended Music: Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco Fellow Workers The Past Didn’t go Anywhere Billy Bragg The Internationale International Worker’s Day - Wikipedia Bald … | Continue reading
Some don’t seem to understand the connection between universities and Israel and the divestment demands of the student protests. Three links that may help: Cornell student suspended over Gaza protest speaks out - YouTube Across many American universities - student protesters have … | Continue reading
Biden is in danger of losing the election because of his support Israel’s war crimes and genocide. It would be best if he kept his mouth shut and his opinions to himself in regards to what protests are “acceptable”. White House denounces Columbia protesters’ occupation of campus … | Continue reading
Mehdi Hasan providing important context on the media’s framing of the recent military exchange between Iran and Israel. Western mainstream media either exclude the context or provide a biased framing of the context. It’s done all the time and it’s meant to be invisible because it … | Continue reading
Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza? | The Guardian Nothing screams ‘covering up war crimes’ like insisting that there should absolutely not be an independent investigation Did you know that the Palestinians are the very first people in the worl … | Continue reading
And yet cities in the Southwest are still growing. The delusional thinking about the future is off the charts. Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland | The Guardian In February, the cooperative announced that it would close its 50-year-old sugarca … | Continue reading
Americans have long described their government as being democratic. But an honest look at the history and evolution of the government here tells a very different story. The April 29, 2024 episode of the The Majority Report with Sam Seder includes interview with Ari Berman, nation … | Continue reading
They’re committing war crimes and genocide so yes, they should be arrested, tried and if found guilty, imprisoned. Netanyahu asks Biden to help stop ICC arrest warrants over Gaza war Israeli officials have grown increasingly concerned over the last two weeks that the ICC is prepa … | Continue reading
Land Back: Indigenous Environmental Stewardship and the Path Forward Indigenous peoples around the Earth serve an outsized role in the conservation of natural resources including land, water, flora, and fauna. We make up only about 6 percent of the total global population, yet oc … | Continue reading
I deeply appreciate this post by Ben Werdmuller explaining who he is and offering insight into how and why he became the human he is. This is the kind of thoughtful human-to-human sharing that makes the internet worth having because it provides an opportunity for real connection … | Continue reading
World Central Kitchen says it will resume operations in Gaza : NPR The aid group World Central Kitchen said it was resuming operations in Gaza, less than a month after seven of its staff were killed in Israeli airstrikes. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire. We are r … | Continue reading
Israel Has Already Imposed Unavoidable, Exponential Famine on Gaza outpacing Somalia’s - ZNetwork Juan Cole summarizes a story by prominent foreign policy journalist Colum Lynch: Lynch has seen a memo entitled “Famine Inevitable, Changes Could Reduce but Not Stop Widespread Civil … | Continue reading
Yesterday Manton shared a recent post by Manuel Moreale The web is not dying – Manu: Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And all the other huge platforms. There would still be one global town square left. It’s called the web. The web itself IS t … | Continue reading
And it will get much, much worse. We are in the earliest days food systems disruption. Rest assured, we’ll continue to do nothing to solve the problem. Worst wine harvest in 62 years blamed on ‘extreme’ weather and climate change | Euronews The International Organisation of Vine … | Continue reading
Also US misdeeds in Iraq, 1990-91, pre-2001: Thomas Fuchs: Has everyone memory-holed what happened after 9/11? Peaceful protests being declared “un-American”? A 20-year long war that caused an estimated FIVE MILLION deaths? …Maybe fucking listen to protests sometime. You might le … | Continue reading
People are rightly disgusted by the puppy killer Kristi Noem. But let’s keep in mind how many months Congress and the Biden administration have supported Israel in its ongoing and intentional killing of 34,000+ Palestinian civillians. A number that does not include the missing bu … | Continue reading
Anyone paying attention the past 7 months is not surprised and it’s taken too long to get to this point of acknowledgment. State Department Internal memo: Israel may be violating international law in Gaza | Reuters A joint submission from four bureaus - Democracy Human Rights & L … | Continue reading
Recommended podcast episode: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: “Decolonization Is Not a Discourse, It Is a Material Process”. An interview with: Leila Shomali is a Palestinian PhD candidate in International Law at Maynooth University Ireland and a member of the Good Shepherd Co … | Continue reading
More grassroots anti-war activism in the US: Walkouts, Blockades, and Student Occupations in Solidarity with Palestine Continue | It’s Going Down Resistance to the US backed Israeli war and genocide against Palestinians living in the occupied territories remains ongoing, with a c … | Continue reading
A carefully presented and well researched video by Randahl Fink: Genocide in Gaza — is Israel guilty? - YouTube #Gaza #Israel #Genocide | Continue reading
UN Human Rights Council calls for halt to weapons shipments to Israel : NPR GENEVA — The U.N.’s top human rights body called on countries to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel in a resolution passed Friday that aims to help prevent rights violations against Palestinians a … | Continue reading
Evidence that grassroots, progressive activism in the US is still alive and capable of changing world events. While it’s still early days it seems that the Biden administration may finally be shifting its position on Israel. The killing of the 7 aid workers of the World Central K … | Continue reading
The Perserverance of Dignity – Abolition Media The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico have been working for 30 years to create and expand real, local democracy. Young Liria nodded excitedly with a smile that lit up her face like the Mayan sun. Her small frame rocked back and forth wit … | Continue reading
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties | Continue reading
Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia | The Guardian Thousands of schools in the Philippines have stopped in-person classes due to unbearable heat. In Indonesia, prolonged dry weather has caused rice prices to soar. In Thailand’s waters, tempe … | Continue reading
Biden is not passively funding the slaughter of Palestinians, he’s working hard to do so, bypassing Congress at least twice. And his supposed “outrage” at Israel’s genocide is not convincing. With each week Biden seems determined to hand the election over to Trump. The activist, … | Continue reading
In this Majority Report clip about Israel’s recent slaughter of WCK aid workers in Gaza Emma Vigeland refers to the IDF as the Israeli Genocide Force. Calling things out for what they are. See also: US billionaires: Oligarchs The Republican Party: The Fascist Party | Continue reading
War Crimes: “Sniper shots to the brain. They were seven or eight years old.” ‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza | The Guardian Dr Fozia Alvi was making her rounds of the intensive care unit on her final day at the battered Europ … | Continue reading
Delusions at the United Nations | Al Jazeera We have now entered the comforting world of delusions. Earlier this week, 14 members of the United Nations Security Council agreed on a resolution that called for an “immediate ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas and the “unconditional … | Continue reading
Is the US status as a war criminal just being accepted by its citizens? Seems that way. Interview with Josh Paul, former State Department official who resigned in October to protest increasing arms sales to Israel. The most recent shipment to include 25 F-35 fighter jets and the … | Continue reading
The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattle | The Guardian There is a simple, cost-effective and scientifically sound way to turn back the clock on global warming and reverse the catastrophic collapse of biodiversity: pay ranchers to raise trees instead of cattl … | Continue reading
1 in 5 Wisconsin Democrats Said Gaza War Will Impact Their Primary Vote More than 1 in 5 Wisconsin Democrats said that Israel’s war in Gaza is impacting their vote in the state’s primary on Tuesday, while 71% said they strongly support an immediate and permanent ceasefire, accord … | Continue reading
Not a surprise that the Fascist Party in attempting to limit democracy in Missouri. Voiceless in Missouri: How an attack on initiative petitions stifles democracy • Missouri Independent Lawmakers, in a panic over the prospect that voters might overturn their abortion ban, are mov … | Continue reading
Big surprise. Nations Are Undercounting Emissions, Putting UN Goals at Risk - Yale E360 Because of lax rules, national inventories reported to the United Nations grossly underestimate many countries’ greenhouse gas emissions… In the United States, an analysis published this month … | Continue reading
Lots of planning for November and post election: How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation | The New Republic Last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made waves by flying to the United States to meet with Donald Trump—but not with sitting president Joe Biden. It … | Continue reading
Not only will the cost of food contiune to rise, but an increasingly destabilized climate will decrease crop production as the population of the planet grows. We will have food shortages. The poorest of the planet will suffer first. And the wealthiest 10% are okay with that. Extr … | Continue reading
I’ve seen it suggested that American billionaires should now be referred to as oligarchs. By the same logic, we should also now refer to the Republicans as Fascists, and the Republican Party as the Fascist Party. Call them what they are. Fascists. | Continue reading
The GOP is Fascism now. GOP Congressman Tim Walberg calls for Gaza genocide: “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima: Get it over Quick” Walberg, a fundamentalist former Christian pastor, once ran the homophobic, far right Moody Bible Institute in Chicago while supposedly repre … | Continue reading
‘Obscene’: Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs, Warplanes for Israel The Washington Post reported Friday that Biden authorized shipments including more than “1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, as well as 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines worth approxi … | Continue reading
Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBC After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine. It has increased the pressure on Israel to … | Continue reading