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Spies, spies everywhere. 

How workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden contaminated waste.

A tour of the Gaza encampments

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics, and partially open thread ~

A look at some of the courses of action to impose costs on Israel and its backers, here, economic costs.

Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.

Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.

Weapons, tactics, techniques and, maybe most importantly, ideology are already spreading in the US and across the Collective West from the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts. 

“I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice,” William Lloyd Garrison once said. “On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation.”

In her new book, astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger explores how scientists might find life on other worlds.

Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Seattle Clean Air Collective, Presidential immunity, Susie Wiles, feared political operative and Trump’s right hand person, AI infesting Etsy crochet pattern marketplace ~