2022

9/11 Survivors’ exposure to Toxic Dust and the chronic Health Conditions that followed offer Lessons that are still too often Unheeded

By Roberto Lucchini, Florida International University | – (The Conversation) – The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss of 2,753 people in the Twin Towers and surrounding area. After the attack, more than 100,000 responders and recovery workers from every U.S. state – along with some […]

Agriculture

Food Sovereignty vs. Food Aid: Why Small-Scale Farming Suffers

Daniel Martin Varisco

( Tabsir.net ) – The early major civilizations in the Middle East and Asia with their head start several millennia ago had one thing in common: an agricultural base that fed not only people but led to development of states and their services. Major river systems like the Nile and Tigris/ Euphrates, the Ganges of […]

Arms Sales

Spending Unlimited: Contractors Cash in as Congress Adds Billions to the Pentagon Budget

Tomdispatch

By Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Congress has spoken when it comes to next year’s Pentagon budget and the results, if they weren’t so in line with past practices, should astonish us all. The House of Representatives voted to add $37 billion and the Senate $45 billion to the […]

Climate Crisis

Solar Power in US to grow by Factor of 3 by 2027 after IRA, Saving us from Climate Disasters and Lung Cancer (yes)

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Because of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), energy analysis firm Wood MacKenzie has increased its estimation of how much solar power the US is likely to install in the next five years by nearly 50%. Because of supply chain problems with solar panels, the firm does not expect the […]

Climate Crisis

U.S. House Members raise Objections to Manchin Deal fast-tracking Coal, Oil, Gas Projects

Minnesota Reformer

By Jacob Fischler | – ( Minnesota Reformer ) – More than 50 U.S. House members are objecting to a push to revise federal environmental permitting requirements for energy projects — part of a deal Democratic leaders struck with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin III to win passage of their climate, health and taxes bill that […]

Israel/ Palestine

How many times must Gaza be rebuilt, to be bombed again?

Middle East Monitor

By Anjuman Rahman | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is infamous for bombing innocents in the Gaza Strip. During Israel’s latest three-day military offensive against the besieged enclave on 5 August, 49 people, including 17 children and four women were killed. Israeli air and artillery strikes also struck various targets across Gaza […]

Climate Crisis

As Climate Emergency unfolds, how can Pakistan combat future Mega-Floods and Droughts?

The Conversation

By Shahid Azam, University of Regina | – Pakistan is suffering from the aftermath of yet another massive flood covering about one-third of its landmass. This time it has affected more than 33 million people in the Indus River valley, with extensive damage to life, property, crops and livestock. The Indus River valley contains a […]

Climate Crisis

The 15 Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Dramatic Climate Emergency Tipping Points that are around the Corner

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the Book of Revelation by John of Patmos, seven seals are described, and when the first four are broken, four horsemen emerge, Conquest, War, Famine and Death. It turns out that our latter-day apocalypse will be driven by 15 tipping points affecting the earth’s climate. The sooner humanity stops […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Emergency Caused our Scorching Summer, but Inequality meant it hit Workers Hardest

Sam Pizzigati

( Inequality.org ) – The heat. Never been hotter in our lifetimes. This past spring the mercury nearly hit 124 in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, “just below,” notes science writer David Wallace-Wells, “the conventional estimate for the threshold of human survival.” This summer’s U.S. daily high temperatures are continuing our torrid global pace. America’s […]

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