U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due To Climate Change By Nafeez Ahmed, Vice.com. February 16, 2020 U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due To Climate Change2020-02-162020-02-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/unclesam.png200px200px Above photo: Calvin Shen. NOTE: This article was originally published last October. Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects. According to a [...]
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Iranian foreign minister accused the US on Saturday for seeking a regime change in his country, lowering expectations for direct talks between Washington and Tehran. Speaking at a panel session at the Munich Security Conference, Javad Zarif said the possibility of direct negotiations between the US and Iran would depend on President Donald Trump. “Unfortunately the suggestions by Macron, and by Abe, and others…all have fallen [...]
Authored by Yuen Yuen Ang via Project Syndicate, In contemporary China, profound political transformation can – and has – taken place in the absence of regime change or Western-style democratization. The starkest example is the period of “reform and opening” that began in 1978 under Deng Xiaoping’s charge. Although Deng rejected multiparty elections, he fundamentally changed the direction of the Communist Party of China (CPC), as well as [...]
As part of the continuing saga of the evolving “truth” behind American troop injuries as a result of the Jan.8 Iranian ballistic missile attack on Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, which by the Pentagon’s (seemingly weekly) changing count now remains at 109 soldiers diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), President Trump has weighed in on the controversy. In an interview with Fox Business early this week, the president doubled [...]
Tensions are rising over the upcoming Bolivian general vote as Evo Morales’ Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) is gaining momentum in the country despite the de facto government’s pressure. Alberto Echazu, a journalist from the media platform La Resistencia Bolivia, sheds light on the most recent developments in La Paz. Bolivia saw the ouster of former President Evo Morales in November 2019 amid protracted social turmoil over [...]
The Trump administration said Wednesday that the United States will soon bolster its year-long campaign to topple socialist Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro with even harsher measures against a Venezuelan government already effectively facing a U.S. embargo. “We have given direction to the entire whole of government ― not just to the Treasury Department, but to the whole of government ― to use all of the tools [...]
Macy’s announced Tuesday that it had adopted a three-year plan designed to stabilize profits and continue company growth. The new plan calls for a radical $1.5 billion cost-cutting program that will axe upwards of 2,000 jobs and shutter 125 stores across the US. The retailer, which operates 680 stores under the Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s brands, said the closure represents an 18% reduction in its brick and mortar footprint. [...]
A future climate disaster, or “green swan” event, could bring down the global financial system, according to a new report from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an international financial organization that serves as a bank for central banks around the world. Like black swan events, “green swan” events will be very difficult to predict and will hit with little warning. The potential for a cascading series of crises [...]
As Britain finally departs the European Union, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the UK’s exit as a ‘sea change’ for the bloc, in a statement that hit the same notes as a breakup letter. “We regret [Brexit], and we think the majority of the German population feel the same, but we respect the decision,” Steffen Seibert said at a press conference on Thursday. [...]
Zombie Viruses. Drug-resistant fungi. “Super-shedding” animals. Even as officials around the world are scrambling to control a new and increasingly deadly coronavirus outbreak, public health and infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about climate change making the risk of other novel afflictions much more explosive. In recent years, scientists have linked most emerging infectious diseases to animals, especially wildlife. Much of that wildlife is being [...]
While Donald Trump’s ‘peace plan’ from Israel and Palestine violates international law in every possible way, its only result will be a widespread outrage among the Muslims since it’s impossible to implement, George Galloway says. The pompous unveiling of the peace plan by US President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu looked like a true “mixture of tragedy and farce,” former Labour MP told RT [...]
As I watched Tyler the Creator discuss his ambivalence about his Grammy win for Best Rap Album—he felt his album is actually pop, and though he was happy to win, lamented that the Grammys only recognize “guys who look like me” in the Rap and Urban Contemporary categories—I wondered if black and brown artists ought to be lining up for their trophies as they denounce the [...]
Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, A suggestion by the UK Committee on Climate Change to burn more wood and plant replacement trees as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels has drawn criticism from think tank Chatham House, which says this is hardly the best approach to reducing emissions. “Expanding forest cover is undoubtedly a good thing, if you’re leaving them standing,” energy expert Duncan Brack told the Daily [...]
The new European Commission president has been trying to make fighting climate change the hallmark of her presidency. However, her proposals could further split the bloc and backfire, hurting the EU itself, analysts believe. Since taking office in December, Ursula von der Leyen has been pushing for the Green Deal, aiming to make Europe the “world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050.” The approach includes tax on [...]
On 28 December, contractor Mohamed Ali (or son of the army, as he calls himself), released a document, which he said the entire spectrum of the Egyptian political opposition in the diaspora had participated in formulating. Some supported the document while others rejected it, but they all supported his call for a revolution on 25 January against the coup-led government in Egypt, in which the political [...]
Billionaire George Soros has unveiled a new ambitious project: creating a global university network that would save the world from climate change and rescue democracy itself from ‘dictators’ like US President Donald Trump. The 89-year-old grey eminence of liberal globalism announced “the most important project of my life” on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Describing the current state of the world as [...]
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, The censorship continues, as a George Soros-linked group has joined forces with the mainstream media to ensure climate skeptics are silenced on YouTube. The group Avaaz, left-leaning non-profit group, published a report on January 16th on its website that claims YouTube is “profiting by broadcasting misinformation” to millions of people by giving climate denial videos too much prominence. Independent mainstream media outlets [...]
As Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to drag its feet toward elections, many young people in Palestine are becoming apprehensive with regard to their political system. “I don’t think the new generation cares about elections or the president at all,” 24-year-old Ashraf Hamayel from Amari refugee camp in Ramallah says. “It doesn’t matter if they vote, anyway, because they will put [whoever they want as] [...]
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The Fed, ECB, Bank of England, and Bank of Japan have now embraced climate change as part of their mission. It’s bad enough that central bankers are clueless about inflation. They now want their hands in another thing they do not understand and cannot control even if they did. Fed’s Core Mission Change Lael Brainard, Chair of the Fed’s Committee [...]
For the first time in two years, President Trump traveled to Davos, Switzerland, where he once again confronted the global elites whom he railed against during the 2016 campaign by calmly rattling off his administration’s accomplishments. Speaking from a prepared notes, Trump calmly repudiated the hysterical warnings of the ‘Green New Deal’-ers, decried impeachment as a “hoax” and recounted a list of his administration’s economic accomplishments, [...]
After the IMF cut its global economic outlook for 2019 to 2.9% in October, the lowest since the financial crisis, and warned that global trade growth would be “close to a standstill”, moments ago the IMF once again downgraded its forecast for global GDP for 2020 and 2021, its sixth straight reduction, although in a sliver of optimism, global GDP in 2020 is now expected to [...]
Zachary Leeman is the author of the novel Nigh and journalist who covers art and culture. It appears actor John Cusack took the climate change messages in his film ‘2012’ really, really seriously, because he says Earth only has a handful of years left — unless Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is elected US President. Introducing Sanders in Exeter, New Hampshire, on Saturday, the 53-year-old actor threw out a [...]
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that, instead of following the US’ maximum pressure campaign against Iran, the EU will stick to diplomacy in order to avoid further escalation of tensions in the region. The US and Europe have a “different approach” to Iran and the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for its nuclear program, Maas told Bild am Sonntag newspaper, in an interview [...]
One federal judge’s lonely dissent in a case about climate change provoked an avalanche of reactions—both effusively favorable and decidedly negative. Stylized as Juliana v. United States, the lawsuit was originally filed in 2015 and is considered one of the most important pieces of climate-themed litigation currently making its way through the courts. “In these proceedings, the government accepts as fact that the United States has [...]