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Covid deaths in the US (over 1 million) and China (about 5000)

10Jul

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Health, USA

Covid deaths in the US (over 1 million) and China (about 5000)

BY JOHN V. WALSH Photograph Source: Travis Wise – CC BY 2.0 “History Should Judge Us” – and it will. In May and June of 2022 two milestones were passed in the world’s battle with Covid and were widely noted in the press, one in the US and one in China. They invite a comparison between the two countries and their approach to combatting Covid-19. The first milestone was passed on May 12 when the United States registered over 1 million total deaths (1,008,377 as of June 19, 2022, when this is written) due to Covid, the highest of any country in the world. Web MD expressed its sentiment in a piece headlined: “US Covid Deaths Hit 1 Million: ‘History Should Judge Us.’” Second, on June 1, China emerged from its 60-day lockdown in Shanghai in response to an ...

10Jul

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Environment

Don’t Look to EPA to Save Us!

BY TED FRANKLIN Image by Markus Spiske. West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency completes a trifecta of long-sought court victories for the right. What New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v Bruen did to gun control and Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization to reproductive rights, West Virginia v EPA has done to climate. The 6-3 Supreme Court decision stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of much of its power to regulate U.S. industries that are pumping out greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The court held that EPA had no authority to cap coal’s contribution to national electricity generation at 27% by 2030. The goal had been announced in Obama’s 2014 Clean Power Plan that never took effect, but still m...

Media Outlets Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

10Jul

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Environment

Media Outlets Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

BY ALEX KOTCH - MARIA BUSTILLOS https://www.youtube.com/embed/XjXWdw4cpv8 Who’s to blame for a lack of action on climate change? “There’s simply no reason to take drastic action now.” The oil companies, most obviously; “Energy! Environment! Some say it’s either/or… I don’t buy it.” PR and ad agencies paid to hire chipper young adults urging viewers to become “energy voters”; “Members…need to start focusing on the issues that are impacting everyday Americans, and the consequences of an overly ambitious and unrealistic climate agenda.” Politicians who carry water for the fossil fuel industry. These are all easy to blame. But without the complicity of corporate and legacy media, none of the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda would fly. Outlets including Th...

10Jul

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Germany

Germany’s Super-Rich

BY THOMAS KLIKAUER Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr Portrait Painting Collage By Danor Shtruzman. Photograph Source: Danor Shtruzman – CC BY-SA 4.0 Poverty and wealth remain two sides of the same coin – at times, minted in Germany. Germany’s super-rich own very obscene levels of treasures – mostly thanks to unsavory capitalism, dirty business dealings, white collar crime, and the Nazi past of many of Germany’s businesses. Furnished with all that, Germany’s businesses and its super-rich have even taken on a supermarket-like attitude towards the state, its public goods, its administration, and the government – without the checkout, of course. They have powerful allies in politics, political parties, the state, and federal and state governments. Euro-bill...

Moscow’s War In Ukraine vs. Washington’s “Special Military Operation”

10Jul

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

Moscow’s War In Ukraine vs. Washington’s “Special Military Operation”

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Sgt. Meleesa E Gutierrez – Public Domain Russian President Vladimir Putin adopted the expression “special military operation” for his invasion of, and war in, Ukraine. Putin’s brutal and senseless war cannot be hidden behind such an obtuse expression. In response to Russia’s aggression, it is the United States that has mounted a “special military operation” against Russia, which will have serious strategic consequences in the near, and possibly distant, future. The U.S. military buildup in Europe and the new round of expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will make it difficult to negotiate important substantive issues with Russia such as arms control and disarmament; the non-proliferation of strategic weapo...

Susan B. Anthony Was Rolling Over in Her Grave This July 4th

9Jul

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USA

Susan B. Anthony Was Rolling Over in Her Grave This July 4th

Portrait of Susan B. Anthony sitting at a desk, circa 1868. (Photo: Fotosearch/Getty Images). The great suffragist would surely be appalled by the Dobbs ruling and the radical logic behind it, which repudiates a century of progress in human rights and democracy. JEFFREY C. ISAAC A little over a week ago, the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision decisively overturned over 50 years of precedent established by Roe v. Wade, thereby delivering a death blow to the reproductive freedom of women across the country, from sea to shining sea. That this represents an assault on women's rights, and on democratic citizenship itself, is widely understood by many Americans. At the same time, for the minority of Americans who have energetically sought this result for decade...

Hell on Earth: From Tired Metaphor to an Increasingly Accurate Description

9Jul

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Environment, USA

Hell on Earth: From Tired Metaphor to an Increasingly Accurate Description

A local resident gestures as he holds an empty water hose during an attempt to extinguish forest fires approaching the village of Pefki on Evia (Euboea) island, Greece's second-largest island, on August 8, 2021. (Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images). When will the pain of climate change become too great to ignore any longer and will it then be too late? TOM ENGELHARDT In recent weeks, a newly emboldened right-wing Supreme Court struck down a more than century-old New York law restricting the carrying of concealed weapons and a nearly 50-year-old precedent on abortion. Meanwhile, the January 6th Committee has been laying out in graphic televised detail how our last president tried to subvert the 2021 election. Inflation, of course, co...

9Jul

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USA

What Is Wrong With Us?

Law enforcement search the area of a shooting at a Fourth of July parade on July 4, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. Police have detained Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, 22, in connection with the shooting in which six people were killed and 19 injured, according to published reports. (Photo: Mark Borenstein/Getty Images). We are habituated to the notion that deadly interpersonal violence is somehow normal and is to be expected anywhere and everywhere. Of course, this is not true. THOMAS MEISENHELDER We shoot each other. We shoot each other in the streets. We shoot each other in our homes. We shoot each other in rural towns and in big cities. We shoot ourselves in the suburbs and in the ex-burbs. We shoot each other in large mass shootings and in small individualized events. ...

Something to Think About on the Fourth of July: “The Nazification of America”

9Jul

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USA

Something to Think About on the Fourth of July: “The Nazification of America”

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, Peter Navarro, 73 years old, was Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Policy during the Trump administration. I do not know him. Last February the Democrats subpoenaed him to appear before the Democrats’ “Select Committee on the January 6 Attack,” a show trial operation trying to invent an “insurrection” by people who took selfies sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair. As Trump had declared executive privilege, Navarro simply observed the president’s right and refused to appear. There is nothing unusual about this. It has been happening forever. Personally I do not know if executive privilege is a good idea, but it is a fact. It is what happened to Navarro that is unprecedented. ...

West Bank: Nazi Soldiers Abduct Five Palestinians

9Jul

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

West Bank: Nazi Soldiers Abduct Five Palestinians

Nazi soldiers abducted, Sunday dawn, five young Palestinian men from several parts of the Nazi occupied West Bank. Several army Nazi jeeps invaded Doura town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, searched a few homes, and abducted Abdul-Aziz Walid Sweity. In Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank, the Nazi soldiers invaded Tammoun town, south of the city, before undercover officers stormed the home of former political prisoner Akram Na’im Bani Odah, 38, and kidnapped him. Akram Bani Odah The Bani Odah family said the Nazi soldiers wired and detonated the main door of their home before breaking into the property. The Palestinian is also a former political prisoner who the Nazi regime held for at least six years. The Nazi soldiers also abducted one Palestinian be...