A quarter of the world’s population in 17 countries is facing “extremely high” levels of baseline water shortages, using over 80 percent of the local renewable supply, found updated Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas data compiled by the World Resources Institute (WRI).
The report named Qatar as the most water-stressed country.Read More »
Laborers working in factories in countries competing for securing stronghold in the world markets are not news today. Brands like Nike, Adidas, H&M, Gap, Zara, Armani, Lacoste and many such are directly or indirectly employing laborers in these factories is also not news. Mainstream discussions almost ignore the laborers’ question.
However, horrifying reports on these laborers occasionally surface. Researchers have found slavery did not end with abolition in the 19th century. The method has just changed its form and appearance.
Any official legal definition of modern slavery is non-existent.Read More »
What can one say when a well-respected investigative journalist exposed both Joe Biden and Barack Obama as closeted fascists, and the entire mainstream ‘news’-media has ignored it? This was a news-report that would be a candidate for the Pulitzers if the Pulitzer prizes were at all honest — but it is instead utterly ignored. What does that say about the reality of ‘freedom of the press’ in the U.S.A.?Read More »
In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a “world-ecology” of wealth, power, and nature.
While researching my book “The Heritage,” I was struck by the enormous effect the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have had on sports — how they look, how they’re packaged and how they’re sold. Before 9/11, giant flags and flyovers were reserved for the Super Bowl. Today, they are commonplace. Even the players wear camouflage jerseys. The military is omnipresent. And it’s by design.Read More »
Is it the country that corrupts the staff, the employees, of the U.N.? (No other country has the power to do that. This one does, and it takes full advantage of the opportunity, and carries out that corruption, ruthlessly.)Read More »
My great-aunt Mary Gosman Scarborough was born in Russia “at the time of the Czar” and was sent by her parents to America with a man, a family friend, when she was only twelve. They neglected to tell her that he was to be her husband, which exacerbated an already difficult life.
Mary was a hard worker and a believer in the Communist Party all her life. In Detroit, she was an organizer of the Ford Hunger March and the Unemployed Councils, and went to jail on numerous occasions for these and other activities. As her grandson William McAdoo wrote to me, “Her book is testimony to her extraordinary journey through modern times and the struggles she has waged and principles she has embraced along the way.”
On August 5, tens of thousands of people marched to a mining site in Turkey’s northwestern Kaz mountain region, protesting the environmental damage inflicted by mining operations of the Canada-based Alamos Gold.
Protesters said that the development of the mine in the Kaz mountains would lead to the poisoning of the local water supply and water in the dam in the nearby Canakkale city. Activists claimed that Doğu Biga Madencilik, the local subcontractor of Alamos Gold, cut more than 195,000 trees for the development of the mine.
BERLIN (AP) — The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans that has 82% of its surface covered in ice.
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