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Sleep Now in the Fire: the Year in Climate
Climate Crisis

Sleep Now in the Fire: the Year in Climate

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Fog and flood on a 60-degree December day in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. January + New research published this week in the journal Science suggests that even at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels, the Earth will lose nearly half of its 214,000 glaciers, resulting in more than 3 inches of sea level rise. Three degrees C (5.4 degrees F)of warming, the study finds, would result in a loss of over 70 percent of global glaciers and raise global sea levels by five inches. + The 1.5C warming target was always a lie: first in that meeting it would forestall devastating convulsions of the Earth’s ecosystems, second that warming could be limited to 1.5C under the timid measures of K...
Haniyeh Calls for Comprehensive Agreement to End Gaza War
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Haniyeh Calls for Comprehensive Agreement to End Gaza War

Posted by: John Phoenix In his Eid al-Adha speech, Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh underscored the necessity of negotiations for a comprehensive agreement to end the the Nazi in Gaza and secure the release of prisoners, saluting all regional comrades in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq for their efforts in resisting the Nazi occupation and aiding the people of Gaza in their war. Despite Nazi evasion and obstruction, Haniyeh emphasized the steadfast commitment of Hamas and resistance factions to achieving a permanent ceasefire, comprehensive withdrawal from Gaza, reconstruction efforts, and a prisoner exchange deal. “The solution to the Israeli war of annihilation on the Gaza Strip and the release of prisoners will be achieved through negotiations leading to a comp...
Dirty Zionist Rachel Riley
Media, United Kingdom

Dirty Zionist Rachel Riley

'RACIST ZIONIST RAT' SHOAHChannel 4 told to act on 'racist' Twitter posts from Rachel Riley By Xander Elliards Rachel Riley is facing severe backlash after twice doubling-down on 'racist' Twitter posts (Image: Archive) COUNTDOWN star Rachel Riley has finally issued an apology after twice doubling-down on a “racist” Twitter post connecting the stabbings at a Sydney mall to a rise in support for Palestine. Six people – five women and a male Pakistani Muslim security guard – were killed by an Australian knife attacker in the Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction on Saturday. In the immediate wake of the attack, Riley linked the murders to Palestinian supporters, sparking calls for Channel 4 to step in. Riley wrote on Twitter/X: “For si...
ESA at 50: Celebrating the Nation’s Most Effective Environmental Law
Climate Crisis

ESA at 50: Celebrating the Nation’s Most Effective Environmental Law

BY ERIK MOLVAR Photograph Source: Sounds Wild – CC BY-SA 4.0 December 28th marks the 50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), widely regarded as America’s most potent and effective environmental law. The Act has saved hundreds of species from extinction, and is overwhelmingly popular with the American voters. When it originally passed in 1973, to be signed by President Nixon, it carried the Senate unanimously and won a bipartisan majority of 390 in favor to 12 against. Preventing extinction, it turns out, is a bedrock American value. The strength of the ESA is its legal requirement that decisions must be made solely based on the best available science, sidelining politics. In the absence of this law’s protection, powerful special interests – like t...
The Corporate University in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Literature, USA

The Corporate University in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

BY DAVID SCHULTZ Photo by Maximalfocus ChatGPT/AI was supposed to be the next big thing to revolutionize higher education.  But based on my students’ comments, it is less than underwhelming.  But that does not matter.  AI will be the latest tool the corporate university uses to save itself from the neo-liberal education policies it has pursued for the last  fifty years. At the beginning of 2023 ChatGPT/AI took higher education by storm.  It was heralded by the likes of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the voice of neo-liberal higher ed,  as the next big thing to change teaching and learning. Much like massive open online courses or MOOCs,  clickers,  interactive whiteboards, Channel One, and a collection of oth...
Gaza, a Ravaged Land, and People
Gaza, Palestine Affairs, West Bank

Gaza, a Ravaged Land, and People

BY CESAR CHELAL Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The images of Gaza resulting from a blindly destructive military operation that kills thousands of innocent women and children haunts any peace-loving person of the world. The level of destruction waged by the Israeli military is greater than in any recent conflict, and has resulted in over 20,000 deaths and incalculable physical destruction. Will there be an end to this madness? One could assume that there could be a pause in fighting for reflection, after such enormous losses. But this is not to be. On December 24 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “We are paying a heavy price for the war, but we have no choice but to continue fighting.” And he added, “We are facing monsters,” in his Christmas message, addressed to...
Rumble Defies Global Censorship Trends, Takes Stand Against New Zealand’s Free Speech Crackdown
USA

Rumble Defies Global Censorship Trends, Takes Stand Against New Zealand’s Free Speech Crackdown

By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net  The CEO of Rumble, a free-speech YouTube competitor, says that global censorship levels are on the rise, but that what’s particularly noticeable are censorship demands coming from Australia and New Zealand – who seem to be following in the controversial, to say the least, footsteps of France and Brazil. On the one hand, this is surprising, given these countries’ formal democratic provenance. On the other hand, their actions over the last years, including site blocking at ISP level, constant demands for more stringent regulation to facilitate social media content removal, and even the draconian Covid – and post-Covid era measures, tell a different story. Chris Pavlovski told Mat Kim that the FreeNZMedia channel has now become a ...
ByteDance Will Shut Down TikTok in US Rather Than Comply with Divestment Demand
USA

ByteDance Will Shut Down TikTok in US Rather Than Comply with Divestment Demand

By Kyle Anzalone | The Libertarian Institute ByteDance says it will not sell off its popular video-sharing app TikTok after President Joe Biden signed a law that will ban the platform from American users in nine months if it is not sold away from Chinese ownership. Several sources inside ByteDance say TikTok is not for sale, Reuters reported Thursday. The company officials explained that while TikTok is only a small portion of ByteDance’s business, the technology used by the platform is also utilized across ByteDance’s other services. The company believes selling TikTok will hurt its other business. On Wednesday, President Biden signed a bill that will ban TikTok in nine months if the platform does not divest of all Chinese ownership. Some 170 million Americ...
Gaza: Nazi Holocaust facts
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Gaza: Nazi Holocaust facts

A Genocide: Some basic facts Gaza Today I’m writing to you on the seventh day of the Al Aqsa Flood, the Gaza uprising. At this moment, the Palestinian Ministry of Health is reporting that Israeli forces have murdered 1,799 Gazans and injured 7,388 more. 583 of the martyrs are children. Furthermore, Israeli airstrikes have internally displaced 340,000 Gazans. The Civil Service in Gaza reported this morning that 90% of the bombings enacted by Israeli forces have targeted inhabited homes, many without any warning at all. Other targets of Israeli airstrikes have included shelters, schools, hospitals, medical aid workers, and journalists. For days now, Gazans have been denied access to their own resources in the midst of a genocidal siege imposed by Israeli politicians: they hav...
Beyond Delusion
Russia, USA

Beyond Delusion

BY WINSLOW MYERS Tucker, YouTube screen shot. Putin demonstrated in his “interview” with Tucker Carlson the delusional version of Russian history that rationalizes his brutality. Hamas and Netanyahu continue to demonstrate Auden’s classic line: “Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.” It often seems as if vast swaths of the Middle East operate under the collective delusion that the various parties, state or non-state, can kill their way out of insecurity and injustice. Then along comes Trump with his loose talk about allied obligations to NATO, provoking outrage across Western capitals. He leaves us feeling as if Biden, elderly or not, is one of the few adults in the room, and U.S. power remains the ultimate backstop for the maintenance of democratic ideals against wa...