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World’s Premier Marine Ecosystem at Risk

3Nov

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Environment

World’s Premier Marine Ecosystem at Risk

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Hiroko Yoshii. The Southern Ocean is 10% of the world’s oceans. Yet, it is arguably the most significant ecosystem of the planet for marine sea life as well as regulation of CO2 and ocean heat, serving as a buffer to climate change and thereby benefiting the entire globe. It is the final frontier of life support for Earth. A new scientific research paper is calling for immediate protection of the Southern Ocean: “Climate change and fishing present dual threats.” (Source: Cassandra M. Brooks, et al, Protect Global Values of the Southern Ocean Ecosystem, Science, October 20, 2022) Indeed, the Southern Ocean is key to sustaining life on the planet. It deserves special focus and must be protected to stop irreparable damage to a powerful ye...

3Nov

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Brazil

What’s at Stake in Brazil’s Elections

BY WAGNER IGLECIAS Photograph Source: Valter Campanato/ABr – Agência Brasil – CC BY 3.0 br The results of the first round of the general elections in Brazil surprised everyone, given the numbers in the polls on voters’ intentions carried out by various institutes in the weeks prior to election day. In the Oct. 2 vote, former president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva almost made the 50% cut to win without a run-off, garnering 48.4% of the valid votes (57 million votes), but the surprise was that current president Jair Bolsonaro obtained 43, 2% of valid votes (51 million votes), a figure that far exceeded the projections in the polls up until the eve of the elections and demonstrated a degree of resilience and social penetration of the Brazilian extreme right that the progres...

Fancy a mid-winter break in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya?

3Nov

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Ukraine

Fancy a mid-winter break in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya?

There’s a move afoot to safeguard the clapped-out nuclear plant by inserting a specially trained unarmed civilian “protection” team between the warring sides. Stuart Littlewood writes: Why this came my way, I don’t know. But it’s scary enough to be of interest to some, though once the realities become known it could be less so. Zaporizhzhya has six old fission reactors surrounded by 37 years of nuclear waste in unprotected cooling pools and dry casks. The plant is near the front line and has been in Russian hands since February, although it is owned and operated by the Ukrainian state entity Energoatom, whose personnel still have the day to day management. For months artillery fire has caused damage to various structures, including the back-up power supply ...

WEAPONS LOBBY – 8. American Armaments Sales in Europe Booming thanks to the War in the Ukraine: “US Colony” after NATO Coup

3Nov

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Europe, USA

WEAPONS LOBBY – 8. American Armaments Sales in Europe Booming thanks to the War in the Ukraine: “US Colony” after NATO Coup

Questo gioco gratuito sta conquistando tutti gli italiani Raid Shadow Legends Cover image: T-72B tanks and HAWK missiles supplied to Ukraine and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO Head of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, considered that the current regime in Kyiv is leading Ukraine to disappear completely. “Since 2014, Ukraine has lost 53.7 percent of its population, and the population of this country is considered a consumable item for Washington and Brussels, which want to continue the war until the last Ukrainian. This war which claims hundreds of lives every day, as the Kyiv regime is leading Ukraine to complete disappearance,” Volodin was quoted by Novosti News Agency as saying. Volodin pointed...

3Nov

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USA

Roaming Charges: Vincent, Duck! Soup!

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Climate protest at National Gallery, London. “It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.” – Seamus Heaney +On October 14 two protesters for the climate group Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup on the protective glass covering Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers and then glued themselves to the wall at London’s National Gallery. I was dismissive at first. After all, if you’re willing to go to jail for a direct action why not target an oil or coal company? But the intensity of the reaction against them from nearly all quarters–but particularly from putative progress...

The untold story of the most toxic place in America-an-inteThe Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

3Nov

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Environment, USA

The untold story of the most toxic place in America-an-inteThe Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

An Interview with Joshua Frank BY KARL GROSSMAN https://www.youtube.com/embed/LiiWDQOXOEY Purchase Atomic Days from CounterPunch. Joshua Frank has written a powerful, extraordinary, must-read book, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America. In it, he exposes how the Hanford Site, a nuclear production complex set up along the Columbia River in the State of Washington by the Manhattan Project, and “has produced nearly on the radioactive fuel used in the nuclear arsenal of the United States,” is “laced with huge amounts of radioactive gunk” and “is a ticking time bomb that could erupt at any given moment, creating a nuclear Chernobyl-like explosion, resulting in a singular tragedy that would be unlike anything the United States has eve...

3Nov

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USA

Homeless in America

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair One of the six colossally dangerous promises made by Trump, should he regain the white house, is his plan to deport homeless people from urban centers to tent cities on the periphery. Another word for tent cities is concentration camps. As anyone with a brain can deduce, a Trump team might very well not stop with packing off the homeless to concentration camps. Next could come Black Lives Matter protesters, anyone accused of being antifa, then all leftists in general, then immigrants, Muslims…you get the picture. Arranging for forced relocation to tent cities is a slippery slope into fascist hell. Even if it is limited only to the unhoused, it would be an execrable violation of their human rights. So it is to be opposed on all c...

Democracy Under Siege? New Polling Reveals Anxieties Over the Future of the Republic

2Nov

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USA

Democracy Under Siege? New Polling Reveals Anxieties Over the Future of the Republic

BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Photo by Fred Moon The latest New York Times-Siena poll provides a window into the bizarre combination of national delusion and anxiety that permeates the United States in an era of rising neofascist politics. It’s becoming more and more difficult for Americans to ignore the intensifying assault on electoral democracy, with the biggest threat being the mainstreaming of Big Lie propaganda that baselessly claims Democrats stole the 2020 election. Looking at the Times-Siena poll, an incredible 71 percent of Americans recognize that U.S. democracy is “currently under threat.” It’s difficult by looking at this number alone to know what Americans are afraid of. Still, there are serious reasons to be concerned. However flawed this “democracy” is, there ...

Ukraine War Evolves: Slouching Toward Armageddon

2Nov

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

Ukraine War Evolves: Slouching Toward Armageddon

BY RICHARD FALK Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, February 1945. Photo: US Army. Disdaining Diplomacy, Seeking Victory Ever since the Ukraine War started on February 24, 2022 the NATO response, mainly articulated and materially implemented by the U.S., has been to pour vast quantities of oil on the flames of conflict, taunting Russia and its leader, increasing the scale of violence, the magnitude of human suffering, and dangerously increasing the risk of a disastrous outcome. Not only did Washington mobilize the world to denounce Russia’s ‘aggression’, but supplied a steady stream of advanced weaponry in great quantities to the Ukrainians to resist the Russian attack and even mount counterattacks. The U.S. did all it could at the UN and elsewhere to build a punit...

Manchin Helped to Impoverish 4 Million Children When He Killed Child Tax Credit

2Nov

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USA

Manchin Helped to Impoverish 4 Million Children When He Killed Child Tax Credit

Sen. Joe Manchin arrives for a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C. BYAmy Hutchison, Truthout Imagine wanting to tell your story, racing to the microphone, only to find that there is a proverbial sea separating you from it; you can see the microphone, but you cannot access it. You do not have the required credentials to stand before it. You watch people on the other side and quickly realize they have power and social mobility. Hell, their entire experience is constructed in a way that they can operate without acknowledging or seeing you. They have the political, financial and social capital to do so. Relatedly, they also have the means to tell their story; they never pray to be heard because they know the...