Might Some Of Us Be Next?

In one of the responses to my recent cop ed essay "Where is the Fire Department," I received some pithy advice from one correspondent. He suggested that “It might be useful to occasionally stop-up your ears and turn your eyes away from media and simply look around yourself at unfiltered reality. If you then see the bodies dropping around you as a consequence of extreme weather events, I will readily concede that you are indeed correct in your article.”
Fortunately, I live in New England where extreme weather events, other than sudden wind storms and flooding, have not caused any human deaths. So I cannot verify to my correspondent that I have personally witnessed “bodies dropping around [me] as a consequence of extreme weather events.” However, from penguins in Antarctica, to butterflies in Spain, honey bees in America and rodents and coral in the Great Barrier Reef, as the world warms these species are disappearing. Might some of us be next?

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Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal Arrested Months After Reporting on Venezuelan Opposition Violence

The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution. (By Ben Norton, The Grayzone) Max Blumenthal, the editor of the news site The Grayzone, was arrested on the morning […]

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‘The Morning Show’ With Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell Tackles The #MeToo Movement

“We had to deal with this idea that the entire system changed…” – Reese Witherspoon on the premise of ‘The Morning Show’ TV veterans Jennifer Aniston (“Friends”) and Steve Carrell (“The Office”) return to the small screen, depicting some big issues in today’s culture. “The Morning Show” debuted on November 1st as the first title […]

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Facebook Is Not Your Friend

Q: What kind of company views the very existence of Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign as an “existential threat?” A: Facebook, and the doom-and-gloom terms in which it frames this discussion tell you all you need to know about whose side it’s on. What’s Mark Zuckerberg and Co.’s bugaboo about the progressive Democrat’s candidacy? Senator Warren […]

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Violence in Gaza as Israeli Army Wounds Dozens of Protesters, Gaza Rockets Hit Israel

Hours after the Israeli army wounded scores of Palestinian border demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, projectiles from Gaza were fired into nearby southern Israeli towns. On Friday afternoon approximately 100 Palestinian border demonstrators in Gaza were wounded by live Israeli ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at five border locations in the eastern […]

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US Forbids Kurds To Cooperate With Other States

The United States Forbid Kurds To Cooperate With Other States

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Libya: Why the Berlin Conference May Not Resolve Anything

The German ambassador to Libya Oliver Owcza announced on his Twitter in early September that his country intends to hold a meaningful international conference this fall in Berlin to resolve the Libyan crisis. “Germany therefore initiated a consultation process with key international partners,” the German diplomat said. However, previous international meetings have not yielded the […]

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Keystone Pipeline Leaks In North Dakota, Second Big Spill In Two Years

The controversial Keystone Pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil on Thursday, making it already the eighth largest spill of the decade. The Keystone Pipeline leaked approximately 383,000 gallons of crude oil in North Dakota on Thursday, vindicating environmentalists who have long argued that the project poses severe ecological dangers. While the extent […]

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Ohio Moving Forward In Landmark Opioid Case Against Large Drug Manufacturers

If lawsuits in Ohio go in favor of the counties that have been devastated by the opioid crisis then we could see a trend across the country of more counties suing massive drug companies. Many states are facing a devastating epidemic when it comes to opioids. West Virginia leads the country in most deaths per […]

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Monsanto Wins $7.7b Lawsuit in Brazil – But Farmers’ Fight to Stop its ‘Amoral’ Royalty System Continues

When intellectual property laws that protect companies conflict with the rights of farmers to plant their fields, who should win? (By Karine Eliane Peschard, The Conversation) A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of Monsanto, the global agribusiness conglomerate, in a landmark class-action lawsuit filed by Brazilian farmers’ unions. The court’s nine justices unanimously […]

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Thousands of New Israeli Housing Units Approved in Occupied Palestine

Despite international condemnation of Israeli housing settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, Israel has ramped up building construction in 2019. Israel has approved the construction of over 2,000 Israeli housing units in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, representing a sharp increase in settlement building over 2018 numbers. According to Peace Now, the Israeli Higher Planning Council […]

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More Suspicion as Top ME Says Epstein’s Death Was Likely Homicide

Multiple forensic pathologists have come forward and cast doubt on the official ruling of Jeffrey Epstein’s death as a suicide including world-renown pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. One of the top forensic pathologists in the world is bolstering public skepticism over high-profile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s death and alleged suicide in August, arguing that the evidence […]

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How the U.S. Just Swung Right Back into the Geopolitical Contest for Syria

The struggle for control of Syria’s eastern oil fields has little to do with fighting terrorism but forms a crucial template of the geopolitical struggle. No one would have thought that out of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision in early October to withdraw all American troops from Syria, a U.S. military re-engagement with renewed vigor […]

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West of the Mississippi, Meth – Not Fentanyl – Is the Deadliest Drug

From Houston to Honolulu and San Diego to Sioux Falls, methamphetamines are the number cause of drug overdose deaths. According to a report released on October 25 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine continue to account for most fatal drug overdoses in the eastern U.S., it’s a […]

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