Tuesday, September 17, 2019  On Climate and Food, What's the Lesson We Insist on Missing? Frances Moore Lappé, Truthout We frequently see reports about imminent food shortages due to explosive population growth and catastrophic climate events. Absent from such analysis is the fact that we humans actively create the experience of food scarcity, no matter how much food we grow, through a political and economic system of inequality that is manipulated to serve the interests of the few.
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Are We About to Attack Iran? William Rivers Pitt, Truthout If Trump does commit the U.S. to a war in Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia, it would unsurprisingly be one of the worst calamities of an administration made of calamities. The only surprise here is the fact that former National Security Advisor John Bolton will have to watch it all on his flat-screen at home. Maybe irony has a pulse after all.
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African Migrants Pledge to Continue Journey Despite U.S. Asylum Ban José Luis Granados Ceja, Truthout The Trump administration's policy requiring people to seek asylum in the countries they cross to reach the U.S. has not deterred hundreds of asylum-seeking Africans currently stuck in Mexico. The conditions that caused them to flee their home countries were the result of U.S. policies, they say, and until those policies change, migration will continue.
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Warren Unveils "Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate" Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with "big, structural change to fundamentally transform our government." The End Washington Corruption plan builds on legislation that the Massachusetts Democrat introduced last August, months before she announced her presidential campaign.
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Being Arrested Scares Me, But the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Me to Act Claire Norman, Truthout For most of my life, I have not been one to take risks, but something changed after I began to grasp the increasingly dire circumstances the planet is facing. Despite my fear, I've started going to Extinction Rebellion's direct actions. I can't just accept climate apartheid and mass species extinction on our one and only earthly home.
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Naomi Klein: Greta Thunberg Is a "Prophetic Voice" in Fight for Climate Justice Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! Renowned author Naomi Klein discusses the importance of youth voices, including 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, in communicating the urgency of the climate justice movement. Klein praises Thunberg for her "moral clarity" as one of many youth voices that "burst through the bureaucratic language with which we shield ourselves from the reality of the stakes, the extraordinary stakes, of our moment in history."
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Cutting Health Care of 1,900 Whole Foods Workers Saved Bezos 6 Hours Pay Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams When billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods, the richest man in the world saved the equivalent of what he makes from his vast fortune in just a few hours. Bezos makes between $4.5 million and $9 million per hour from stocks and investments.
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Meet the Climate Whistleblowers Muzzled by Trump Oliver Milman, The Guardian From weakening vehicle emissions to blocking warnings about how coastal parks could flood, or the impacts of climate change on the Arctic, the Trump administration is accused of muzzling climate science. Here six whistleblowers and former government scientists describe being sidelined by the administration -- and why they won't be quiet.
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Legislators' Secretive Maneuvers Undermine Rights of Nature in Ohio Lisa Kochheiser, Truthout Ohio legislators and lobbyist groups are quietly passing laws opposing the rights of people who are trying to protect their communities and environment from corporate harm. As in many places across the country, Ohio communities are increasingly finding themselves at the dangerous intersection of corporate rule and unjust lawmaking.
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Federal Appeals Court Rules Trump Can Be Sued for Unconstitutional Profiteering Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Brennan Center for Justice A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump can be sued for unconstitutionally benefiting from his ongoing ownership of the Trump Organization. The ruling reverses a district court decision that dismissed the lawsuit. It also breaks from a decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia, setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown.
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Supreme Court Ruling Pushes Tens of Thousands Toward Summary Deportation Sasha Abramsky, Truthout The Supreme Court's decision on Trump's asylum restrictions inaugurates a horrifying new era in U.S. immigration policy. Huge numbers of people who entered the United States from Mexico and filed asylum claims in the period after the regulatory change was issued in July (but before the Supreme Court allowed its provisions to kick in) will now be subject to summary deportation.
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Scientists' Advice to People Living in Coastal Areas? Move. Dahr Jamail, Truthout The Amazon rainforest continues to burn amid record wildfires that have scorched more than 1,300 square miles. Moreover, in the past month, scientists have warned that it appears as though the Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced a record melt year. This year alone, it lost enough ice to raise global sea levels by more than one millimeter. Scientists are warning people who live in coastal areas to get out.
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