May 18
GAME OVER Leading climate scientist James Hansen warned this week that if tar sands are dug up and burned, the climate crisis will become unsolvable. “Four degrees of warming would be enough to melt all the ice,” Hansen told EurActiv. “It would take a while for it to happen, but you would have a …
May 17
IT’S OFFICIAL, THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS NOW ENDLESS (OR AT LEAST AS LONG AS ANYONE CAN BE LABELED “AL QAEDA”) “The war authorization that Congress passed after 9/11 will be needed for at least 10 to 20 more years, and can be used to put the United States military on the ground anywhere, from …
May 16
GARMENT INDUSTRY BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE STILL DYING IN BUILDING COLLAPSES The ceiling of a factory that makes sneakers for customers in Europe and the USAcollapsed on workers early this morning, killing two people and injuring seven, in the latest accident to spotlight lax safety conditions in the global garment industry. After over 1,100 …
May 15
AN ABSOLUTELY CORRUPT GOVERNMENT A story blasted over the mass media this morning has it that a Russian agent was offered a million dollars a year salary in return for spying for the USA. Russians are upset and have expelled the American “diplomat” (probably CIA). What we don’t know, and should be asking, is how many people …
May 14
MONSANTO RULES “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of biotech giant Monsanto, ordering Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman, 75, to pay Monsanto more than $84,000 for patent infringement for using second generation Monsanto seeds purchased second hand—a ruling which will have broad implications for the ownership of ‘life’ and farmers’ rights in the future,” begins a …
May 13
CAPITALISM OVER MOTHER NATURE “The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Sunday after studying 50,000 species around the world,” begins a piece at HuffPost this morning. INTERNATIONALLY ORGANIZING LABOR “The Nobel laureate and social activist Muhammad …
May 12
Happy Mother’s Day The First Mother’s Day proclaimed in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe was a passionate demand for disarmament and peace. Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. …
May 11
The United States of TransCanada? We are living in interesting times. Foreign corporations are allowed to file SLAPPs (Strategic lawsuits against public participation) against US citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights. TransCanada has filed what has been called a ‘dictionary definition’ of a SLAPP against 21 people who have been protesting the construction of the Keystone …
May 10
PLOWSHARES AND OCCUPY CONTINUE 83 year old Sister Megan Rice, 64-year-old Michael Walli and 56-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed, were convicted of “invasion of a nuclear facility” in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and now face 20 years in prison. Greg is featured in Balkwill’s book, An Attack on the National Security State, available free to LUV News members (send name and …
May 09
BUT WILL BIG OIL ALLOW IT? “In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could blunt global warming,” begins a piece at Common Dreams this morning. The piece …