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The U.S. Military is Destoying the Planet! In their new documentary, Abby Martin and Mike Prysner reveal that the climate and anti-war movements are really one and the same—because the U.S. military is the worst polluter of all.
Greta Thunberg understands why this change was needed, in a recent video on Facebook she said: “There can be no climate justice without social justice. The fight for climate justice is just as much a fight against the fossil fuel industry as much as it is a fight against the military industrial complex.” This is all true. For all who are committed to fighting for justice there can be no separating out different issues. The struggle for the socialist transformation of the planet demands that we fight every injustice. This means fighting the capitalist system. But while Thunberg has always understood the need for systemic change, she hasn’t always been clear when it comes to saying exactly what people should be fighting for, not just against. For instance in 2018 she stated, that if “solutions within this system are so impossible to find then maybe we should change the system itself?” As she affirmed: “The real power belongs to the people.” That however represented a good, if basic, start — The Politics of Greta Thunberg
Parton actively facilitated reading and one of its outcomes. I mean critical thinking. That’s never been more important in the current post-truth moment of online disinformation about domestic and foreign affairs, of, by, and for the benefit of billionaires and corporations, a symptom of the overall rot in US economics and politics. Further, in a nation built with the stolen labor of enslaved Africans that in part relied upon depriving them of learning to read, Parton’s gift of 200 million books to poor and working people is, I argue, a revolutionary act. That she hailed from a community of poor whites long susceptible to the ideology of anti-blackness, a centuries-long ruling class divide-and-conquer strategy, speaks volumes of her revolutionary devotion to humanity. Parton appeared to be electorally independent of the two-party duopoly, a great thing. Meanwhile, she publicly endorsed the movements of African Americans (Black Lives Matter) and LGBT folks for full recognition of their human rights. In a racist and warrior nation such as the US, where buying a gun is easier than receiving healthcare, her support of the maligned and oppressed via the promotion of reading books should be emulated. — Dolly Done Good I admired Parton not so much for singing, like millions did globally, but for something else: her literacy promotion.
Video: The U.S. Military is Destroying the Planet (w/ Abby Martin)
Video: Earth’s Greatest Enemy: The U.S. Military’s Toxic Environmental Legacy with Abby Martin
Video: Why the U.S. Military is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report
Video: Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff
Video: Chris Hedges Answers His Readers: Resistance In An Age of Collapse
Vampire Planet: Of Ecocide and EmpireWhen we talk about war, it’s usually in numbers. Innocents and soldiers killed. Bombs dropped. Money spent. We hear figures like 7.6 million and 37.5 billion. There are so many like this that they often feel meaningless, even with context. In this case, 7.6 million is the tonnage of bombs the US has dropped on Iran, and 37.5 billion, the cost of this illegal war. Intentionally or not, large numbers like these obscure the reality of war’s toll. The number of victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, for instance, doesn’t do justice to the violence Palestinians have been forced to endure. Likewise, the number of bombs dropped and dollars spent in an attempt to destroy Iran’s government says nothing about the true human and environmental costs of US/Israel aggression. It reduces these crimes to statistics that don’t accurately convey the horror on the ground, and so much of the ground in the Middle East is soaked with the pollution and blood of empire.
Narwhals document atlantification of East GreenlandAbstract To resolve temperature and salinity changes in remote East Greenland coastal waters, including deep glacier-front basins, we equipped narwhals (Monodon monoceros) with conductivity-temperature-depth archival instruments. These data, combined with the World Ocean Database, reveal long-term warming of Atlantic Intermediate Water (AIW) penetrating East Greenland’s coastal system. In the Blosseville Basin, AIW dominates below ∼250 meters with little Polar Water influence. From 1960 to 2021, temperatures above 500 meters increased by 0.047°C per year. Atlantification of the Greenland Sea now reaches deep basins in front of marine-terminating glaciers up to 300 kilometers inland. Glaciers in Scoresby Sound and Kangerlussuaq are exposed to significantly warmer and more saline waters than those along the shallower Blosseville Coast. Elevated summer iceberg discharge coincides with higher temperatures and salinities below 200 meters, indicating an intensified AIW influence. These observations show that warming AIW delivers heat directly to glacier fronts, promoting submarine melt and accelerating glacier mass loss.
Bulletin of the Atomis Scientists: The US military’s fatal stance on climate change The Pentagon is preparing to wage war in a warmer world, even as it accelerates it he US military has a long, complicated relationship with climate change. Beginning in the mid-1950s, it paid for research into greenhouse gases and the many ways global warming could make operations more difficult and less predictable. As early as the 1990s, the Navy began raising piers to protect its ports and working to make its facilities more resilient to frequent flooding. In 2007, Sherri Goodman, the Pentagon’s first Chief Environmental Officer, coined the phrase “threat multiplier” to convey the idea that climate change could exacerbate geopolitical instability and other security risks. All branches of the military are currently preparing for more humanitarian rescue relief work as environmental emergencies multiply. But even while it’s adapting for this hot new world, with its emergencies and imminent threats, the military has largely sidestepped its role in creating the climate crisis. For decades, the military has been a significant contributor to global warming, but there is no full accounting of military and war-related emissions. Military industrial emissions are also high, and the global volume and value of arms transfers has grown rapidly over the past half-decade. And then of course, by destroying infrastructure and the environment, war itself contributes to global warming. The argument that climate change is a threat multiplier short circuits the causal chain: War and military buildups are climate change multipliers. And, while it is true that the climate is warming at an accelerating rate and that the window for preventing the worst outcomes is closing, the national security establishment’s impulse—to focus on national security threats that may or may not be caused by climate change—may make us less secure because it increases military emissions and siphons resources from emissions reduction, the energy transition, and adaptation.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Bringing Cancer Potential to a Community Near You Under pressure to expand nuclear energy production, the commission has proposed weakening standards protecting workers and communities from radiation exposure.
The World Is Burning and Time Is Not Our Friend We may despair and grieve for our planet, and we can try to “do what we can” as individuals. But we must act politically as well, or we—and especially our children and grandchildren—are doomed.
Watchdog Denounces ‘Staggering and Disgusting’ Hypocrisy of AI Industry GiantsGovernment watchdog Public Citizen on Thursday hit back at the artificial intelligence industry for warning about the dire threats posed by its own technology after it spent years trying to block any government regulations that could have curtailed dangerous AI behavior that experts and progressive lawmakers have warned about for years.
Chinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the dead Nepal and China continue arduous search and rescue operations in flood-hit Himalayas
Thank Trump for This: He Has Exposed the Leaking Guts of the War MachineAs Trump’s approval ratings crater due to his war on Iran, there may never have been a time in US history so ripe for an attack on military spending and militarism.
‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s messThere’s little optimism about treasury secretary’s ability to handle Trump’s tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debt
How the Iran war unfolded: every attack and oil price change – visualised From the first US and Israeli strikes six months ago to the battle for Hormuz, this timeline plots how Trump’s war on Iran quickly became a regional conflict with global economic consequences
Sudan: from revolution to barbarismThe Sudanese Revolution of 2018-21 was one of the most powerful movements of the masses so far this century. In this article, Thomas Soud explores the background to the revolution, its incredible potential, and how it was defeated – leading to the barbarism we see in the region today.