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Natural Gas Is Methane
Methane (CH4) is a horrible destroyer of the Earth — with 86 times the heat-trapping power of CO2 over 20 years.
But natural gas is natural, almost not really gas, actually the green solution brought to us by Guy-Who-Was-Not-Trump Barack Obama.
So the fact that 97% of so-called natural gas is nothing other than methane is odd.
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Creating an All-American Homeland Security Campus
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Sometimes it seems as if we just can’t learn, even when we’re talking about America’s centers of higher learning, its colleges and universities. In mid-April — the day after being grilled and intimidated by House Republicans — Columbia University’s president Nemat “Minouche” Shafik
Leading Terrorist Nation Keeps Various Lists of Which Other Nations It Deems Terrorists, Takes Cuba Off One of Them
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 23, 2024
The world’s leading military spender, arms dealer, foreign base builder, opponent of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, hold-out on basic human rights and disarmament treaties, and fueler of the wars in Palestine and Ukraine has removed Cuba from
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon’s .00035% Problem
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Yes, the number of deaths in Gaza in the last seven months is staggering. At least, 35,000 Gazans have reportedly perished, including
Talk World Radio: Nations that Claim to Oppose U.S. Wars Loan the U.S. Government the Money for Them
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The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow: NATO’s Real Agenda (w/David Swanson)
By the Zero Hour, May 21, 2024
Why does NATO even exist? Activist and broadcaster David Swanson (https://davidswanson.org/) lays out its history and its real goals.
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes, Don’t Grind the Faces of the Poor
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Be shocked, very shocked. As TomDispatch regular Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes, both of whom play key roles in the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights
NATO “Youth Summit” Tells Viewers to Get Ready for War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 20, 2024
The recent NATO “Youth Summit,” even on double speed, is over an hour and a half on Youtube. I couldn’t watch it all, as it just made me feel old — so old that I can remember when people could feel shame about profiteering from mass killing or promoting world wars likely to end in nuclear apocalypse.
The summit’s “youth” participants appear to have met some requirement of being roughly younger than either Biden OR Trump — and there
Donald Trump’s Assault on the Wages of American Workers
Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of the executive branch of the U.S. government, Trump repeatedly undermined the wages of American workers by blocking raises and imposing wage reductions.
Only the preceding year, Trump derailed vital wage legislation. In July 2019―with the pathetically low federal minimum wage stuck at