Like Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Sandy (2012) and numerous other climate-related. not-so natural disasters, the Canadian Wildfire of 2016 is yet another attempt by Mother Nature (I write on Mother’s Day) to wake humanity up to the deadly costs of the fossil fuel addiction imposed on it by — and this is something you won’t hear on CNN or for that matter from McKibben or Hansen (you can hear it from Klein) — the ruling class masters of capital [1]. We cannot depend on the carbon-caked corporate and financial powers that be or their growth- and accumulation-addicted profits system to help us avert environmental catastrophe, which is unfolding before our very eyes and not just those of “our grandchildren.” — Paul Street, Break Free or Burn in Hell: a Message From the Canada
The men of the Niagara Movement coming from the toil of the year’s hard work and pausing a moment from the earning of their daily bread turn toward the nation and again ask in the name of ten million the privilege of a hearing. In the past year the work of the Negro hater has flourished in the land. Step by step the defenders of the rights of American citizens have retreated. The work of stealing the black man’s ballot has progressed and the fifty and more representatives of stolen votes still sit in the nation’s capital. Discrimination in travel and public accommodation has so spread that some of our weaker brethren are actually afraid to thunder against color discrimination as such and are simply whispering for ordinary decencies. — W.E.B. Duboise, Niagara Movement Speech
Accumulation of Wealth and Poverty 
Environment: 
Tar Sands Boomtown Blaze Still ‘Burning Out of Control’: Tar Sands Boomtown Blaze Still ‘Burning Out of Control’ By Lauren McCauley 
The day climate change came to haunt tar sands country By Stuart Smith
France To Ban All Pesticides Amid Worldwide Bee Death Epidemic: France have announced plans to completely ban the use of pesticides due to unusually high bee deaths worldwide, which French authorities claims pesticides are responsible for. By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Goodall Speaks Out As Revered Grizzlies Under Threat of Becoming $50 Trophy: Renowned conservationist is among 58 prominent scientists warning against Endangered Species de-listing by Lauren McCauley, staff writer 
Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:
Report: 2008 Bank Bailouts Are Still Alive By Pam Martens and Russ Martens 
World:
Cuba Will Not Fall! by Andre Vltchek
Health, Education, and Welfare:
