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Agencies Cancel Plan to Frack Oil Wells, Build Pipelines in Los Padres National Forest
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif., April 15, 2024 — Two federal agencies have confirmed the cancellation of applications for permits proposed a decade ago to drill and frack eight new wells on federal public land in Los Padres National Forest. The announcement, made April 3, comes just weeks after California officials proposed a statewide ban on this extremely dangerous fossil fuel extraction technique....
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 6:05am PDT
Commemorate the Frontier Wars with us this Anzac Day
Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the Aboriginal Embassy and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic explains the profound importance of commemorating the Frontier Wars and the need to bury and memorialise the dead before we can go forward....
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 4:13am PDT
REI Workers in Santa Cruz Vote to Unionize
On April 18, workers at the REI store in Santa Cruz voted 32-12 in favor of forming a union. The workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on March 14, at which time they announced their intent to join United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 5. The Santa Cruz REI store is the second REI location in the Bay Area to unionize, and the tenth nationwide. REI Workers in Santa Cruz say they are unionizing for "fair pay, sustainable schedul...
Posted: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 12:55pm PDT
World Leaders Meet for Spring IMF, World Bank and G20 Meetings
World leaders, finance ministers, business groups, academics and development organizations attend the Spring IMF, World Bank and G20 meetings....
Posted: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 11:17am PDT
The sun is setting in the West
The West's misjudgement also applies to the course of the war, where the Russian army is advancing again after the failed counter-offensive in Ukraine. There is a shortage of weapons, ammunition and soldiers. The strategy of wearing down the West seems to be working. In the US, the Biden administration is already encountering difficulties in mobilizing further war credits....
Posted: Wed, Apr 17, 2024 5:27am PDT
On the occasion of the death of "the leading left communist in the United States"
Revolutionary extremism is what it does -- and when it does nothing, it is nothing......
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 2:41pm PDT
We don't have to be enemies
We demand a ceasefire. The release of the hostages. An end to the military occupation of Palestine. We stand side by side with our Palestinian friends.There is no alternative to peace in Israel and Palestine. Not for Jews, not for Palestinians and not for the other people who live there. This is not naïve, but realistic and pragmatic. It is not radical, but the only option to end the suffering...
Posted: Mon, Apr 15, 2024 2:59am PDT
Lola López Resina still imprisoned at 73 years old, the machine grinds on
Lola López Resina, 73, has been locked up for 31 years - the United States holds anti-colonialists in prison for lifetimes...
Posted: Sat, Apr 13, 2024 12:21pm PDT
Ecuador: CONAIE convoca a construir movimiento internacional contra el extractivismo
Ecuador: CONAIE convoca a construir movimiento internacional contra el extractivismo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 13, 2024 3:46am PDT
Minnesota Sup. Ct. "Streaming Live" Apr. 16, 2024 Marijuana Party Presidential Candidate
Presidential Candidate for the Legal Marijuana Now political party of Minnesota may be removed from the 2024 election ballot along with the entire party. Minnesota Supreme Court Hearing Streaming Live April 16, 2024
https://www.mncourts.gov/supremecourt.aspx...
Posted: Fri, Apr 12, 2024 5:30pm PDT
Global Economic Losses Since Dawn of Pandemic Hit $3.3 Trillion
Since 2020, the global economy lost $3.3 trillion....
Posted: Thu, Apr 11, 2024 12:46pm PDT
Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged
I invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are excerpts from Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears and Jeffrey Sachs.
-- Norman Solomon...
Posted: Wed, Apr 10, 2024 6:45pm PDT
California Senate Declares ‘Year of the California Grizzly Bear’
2024 Marks Centennial of Last Sighting of State’s Official Animal...
Posted: Wed, Apr 10, 2024 9:57am PDT
On the Ukraine war: "The end result will be a frozen conflict"
The West, primarily the USA, will not accept a final peace agreement in which Russia retains a substantial part of Ukrainian territory. Even if it is a frozen conflict, the West and the Ukrainians will go to great lengths to subtly undermine Russia's position in the areas of Ukraine it has conquered. The Russians will go to great lengths to ensure that the Ukrainian rump state remains weak....
Posted: Mon, Apr 8, 2024 4:18am PDT
Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqah (وليد دقة) dies, the machine grinds on
Walid Daqqah had been locked up for 38 years - the United States holds anti-colonialists in prison for even longer terms...
Posted: Sun, Apr 7, 2024 3:24pm PDT
Biomass Carbon Capture Project Canceled in California’s Central Valley
Company Withdraws Permits Under EPA Scrutiny...
Posted: Sun, Apr 7, 2024 12:57pm PDT
Campaign for Democracy in California
An answer to the Governor's Campaign for Democracy which fails to address the lack of poor people being able to run for office with the possibility of winning....
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 12:46am PDT
A Philosopher's Critique
Because the declining middle classes are unable to see past individualism and economic self-interest, they stick with the fantasy that any loss of purchasing power is a temporary glitch awaiting systemic resolution – as if Capital were an eternal and inexhaustible mode of wealth creation....
Posted: Thu, Apr 4, 2024 1:51am PDT
Demo Congressman Ro Khanna of CA Helping To Bust Up Medicare For Insurance Industry
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna is proposing to deregulate medicare and turn it over to the states which would allow more privatization. He is being supported by the insurance industry which want to privatize medicare....
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 6:44pm PDT
Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from U.S. to Israel Not Newsworthy to the NY Times
Not Newsworthy to the New York Times...
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 9:12am PDT