‘Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color
“Sacrifice zones”—pollution hot spots—are a front line in an often deadly and steadily growing health crisis across the United States
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Israel Accused of ‘Blatant War Crime’ as Human Rights Watch Confirms White Phosphorus Used in Gaza
Human Rights Watch: “White phosphorus … poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,”
Read more...Michael Hudson: IMF Showdown with China in Morocco
China is challenging the US retaining what amounts to veto rights at the IMF. What next?
Read more...UK Palestine Groups To Defy Suella Braverman’s Crackdown
Quelle surprise! The UK Home Office is trying to use pro-Palestine protests as an excuse to suppress speech.
Read more...Exxon, Apple and Other Corporate Giants Will Have to Disclose All Their Emissions Under California’s New Climate Laws – That Will Have a Global Impact
An assessment of new California emissions disclosure legislation.
Read more...Elijah Magnier on Gaza War Risks for Israel
Elijah Magnier provides important if also troubling perspective on developments in the Gaza conflict.
Read more...Is Israel Weaker Than Widely Seen in Hamas/Palestine “War”?
If Israel is weaker in conventional military terms than widely assumed, that increases the odds of very bad outcomes.
Read more...Thresholds of Perception: “Do I Wake or Sleep?”
“I learn by going where I have to go.” –Theodore Roethke, The Waking
Read more...The Top Ten Takeaways From Hamas’ Sneak Attack on Israel
Some initial observations about Hamas’ surprise strikes into Israel.
Read more...Rob Urie: Americans Are Unleashing Monsters They Have No Idea How to Contain
How Americans, or at least their putative leaders, are pursing policies that are deranged and increasingly authoritarian.
Read more...More on Ukraine’s Desperate Economy
A recent report on conditions in Ukraine paints a more dire picture than your humble blogger had imagined, and I have an active imagination.
Read more...McCarthy Ouster, Senate Republican Opposition Bode Ill for 2023 Ukraine Funding
Ukraine funding, a big focus of the row over McCarthy’s speakership, is not getting any easier.
Read more...BRICS: An Anti-Imperialist Fantasy and Sub-Imperialist Reality? – Patrick Bond
A no-holds-barred critique of BRICS as mainly aspiring to participate in in current organizations, rather than a create new ones.
Read more...Ukraine’s Unraveling, the Funding Row, and Coalition Wobbles
Project Ukraine is having another bad week.
Read more...City Caught Flat-Footed on Flood as Deluge Dredges Up Past Lessons
New York City parents, public officials and climate advocates all say the mayor and his team were ill-prepared for the effects of a storm that was on the radar days before.
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