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By Sonali Kolhatkar In January 2023, nearly a year before the latest United Nations climate conference began, there was deep concern and alarm over the head of one of the world’s largest oil companies being appointed president of the COP28 summit. The climate talks taking place in December 2023 were hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and overseen by Sultan Al Jaber, a man who happens to be in charge of the UAE’s national oil company Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. It’s a fitting illustration of an old idiom that the fox is in charge of the hen house. Al Jaber’s appointment was such …

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by Sonali Kolhatkar Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked our permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating a people. We are being forced to become involuntary accomplices to mass slaughter. Palestinians, on the basis of their legal right against being wiped out, have filed a major lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration for funding Israel’s ongoing pogrom in Gaza, one that has killed more than 11,000 people, including 4,700 children. Represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the plaintiffs include Palestinians who have collectively lost at least 116 family members to U.S.-funded Israeli military attacks. The …

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The values of the U.S. public are not the same as those of the wealthy and corporations. It took a UN official—an outsider—to point out the dissonance. By Sonali Kolhatkar Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently issued a scathing statement about the shameful state of the United States economy. On October 31, 2023, De Schutter called out several top private employers in the U.S., Amazon, Walmart, and DoorDash, for trapping their workers in a cycle of poverty. He said, “Jobs are supposed to provide a pathway out of poverty, yet in all three companies the business …

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Extreme Weather Is Outpacing Even The Worst-Case Scenarios Of Our Forecasting Models by Ravindra Jayaratne In the wake of the destructive Hurricane Otis, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment in the history of weather forecasting. The hurricane roared ashore with 165 mph winds and torrential rainfall, slamming into the coastal city of Acapulco, Mexico and claiming the lives of at least 48 people. The speed at which Otis intensified was unprecedented. Within 12 hours it went from a regular tropical storm to a “category 5” hurricane, the most powerful category and one which might occur only a few times worldwide each year. This rare …

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Our readers have been patient so far, but sooner or later they’re bound to start asking—“Where the hell is our coverage of the 2024 First in the Nation™ Presidential Primary Election®?” To which hypothetical question, we can only reply, “Show us a primary worthy of covering!” Because so far this thing is an unholy mess. Stand back, because we’re about to both-sides this issue. We’ll begin with the Party Formerly Known as Republicans, which we will so designate because Abraham Lincoln doesn’t deserve to be held guilty of association with this ludicrous gang of goons, thugs, and pervs. We’re not even going to list the …

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Corporations have far too much power. But We the People have more. by Robert Weissman and Joan Claybrook [The following is based on an excerpt of the authors’ new book, The Corporate Sabotage of America’s Future and What We Can Do About It (Public Citizen & Essential Books / 2023).] It is now conventional wisdom that America is a divided country, with bitter partisan splits over just about everything. It’s undoubtedly true that Americans have divergent views on many important topics. But the narrative of a Divided America obscures an equally important and rarely acknowledged truth: Americans agree on a great deal. Americans of all …

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