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Juan Cole Informed Comment Climate change devastated towns and villages of Nepal on August 26 with enormous flash floods that were produced by a melting glacier. The size, speed and relentlessness of those monstrous waters shocked anyone who saw the videos. Hundreds are dead, likely thousands are missing. What is more frightening yet is that this flooding is only the beginning, since we are rapidly heating up the earth by burning coal, fossil gas and petroleum in such mass quantities that we’re putting 38.1 billion metric tons of the dangerous heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere every single…

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Nate Bear Do Not Panic The killed aid workers (top row left to right:) James Henderson, James Kirby and John Chapman; (bottom row left to right): Damian Sobol, Lalzawmi Zomi Frankcom, Jacob Flickinger and Saif Issam Abu Taha The Israeli commander who gave the order to bomb the World Central Kitchen convoy in April 2024 which killed six aid workers – three Britons, an American-Canadian, a Pole, an Australian and a Palestinian – said yesterday he’s not sorry for ordering the strike and that the aid workers were “not innocent.” Last week Israel (which originally lied and said the bombing was…

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Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Joy to the World – by Mr. Fish. By Chris HedgesScheerPost The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It normalizes Israel’s decades-long military occupation and apartheid. It erases Israel’s flagrant violations of international law. It perpetuates the fallacy of Israeli victimhood. It betrays, discredits and demonizes the work of Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza, at least 220 of whom have been killed by Israel between Oct. 7, 2023, and August 2025. It supinely accepts draconian Israeli censorship. It acquiesces…

Friday marks six months since the beginning of the Iran War, a conflict that has caused thousands of casualties and tens of billions of dollars in damage, roiled global energy markets, and throttled traffic through one of the world’s most important commercial waterways. Core U.S. and Israeli objectives—most notably, the dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program—remain unmet. Exact numbers are difficult to confirm, but reporting suggests that nearly 8,000 people have been killed since the war began, including at least 4,350 in Lebanon, 3,500 in Iran, 60 in Israel, and 28 in the Gulf states. The United States has lost 18…

“We are seeing a trend of stronger El Niños, and the one we have now is consistent with that trend,” said the lead author. “That is bad news for climate hazards and for people.” Jessica Corbett Common Dreams As the flooding disaster in Tibet and Nepal demonstrates the deadly consequences of the climate emergency, experts wrote Thursday in the journal Science that fossil fuel-driven global heating has intensified the warm phase of a key pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has a warm phase, called El Niño, as well as a neutral phase and a cold one, La Niña. In June, scientists declared…

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Les Leopold Substack The Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America share a problem. As organizations largely run by and involved with college-educated voters, they are physically and psychically removed from working people without four-year degrees. Both the Democrats and DSA claim they are speaking for the working class, but they are not, at present, political organizations of the working class. The Democrats have tried to avoid their working-class problem by embracing suburban Republicans and independents who have been repulsed by the GOP’s extremism. The Democrats’ embrace of Wall Street and Hollywood big money—and NAFTA—has pushed working people out of the coalition.…

I passed some of my happiest days living under communism. I had no job, but all my needs – food, shelter, clothing, education, you name it – were provided for. I went to restaurants, took nice trips, and was even given my own spending money. I’m ashamed to say, I even complained when I felt I wasn’t given everything I wanted. That little paradise ended when I graduated college and my loving parents reminded me I was now an adult and must take care of myself. We know you can do it – besides, you have no choice. Which is…