In bipartisan vote, US Congress authorizes record Pentagon budget: A blueprint for global war

The National Defense Authorization Act is not really a “defense” bill. It is a blueprint for global war, targeting China for military aggression, followed by Russia, Iran and North Korea, while expanding US military support for Israel’s war of annihilation against the Palestinians.

“Politics of Memory”: Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize Postponed for Comparing Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto

We speak with the acclaimed Russian American writer Masha Gessen, whose latest article for The New Yorker looks at the politics of Holocaust commemoration in Europe. Gessen was scheduled to receive the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize in Germany on December 15, but the ceremony was postponed after some award sponsors withdrew support over Gessen’s comparison in the article of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto. A smaller award ceremony is set for Saturday. Gessen says Germany’s culture of learning about and atoning for the sins of the Nazi regime has morphed into steadfast support for the state of Israel despite its actions, while banning most forms of pro-Palestinian solidarity as part of a flawed effort to fight antisemitism. The cornerstone of this form of “memory politics” is that “you can’t compare the Holocaust to anything,” says Gessen. “My argument is that in order to learn from history, we have to compare.”

‘This Genocide Is About Oil’ - Atmos

Given the billions of barrels worth of oil in Palestine, some advocates believe that fossil fuels are influencing Israel’s attacks.

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Tanzania: Residents of towns ravaged by landslides count their losses | Africanews

"I have lost all the bag of maize I had kept in store, in addition to that loss I had given my money to the middlemen who help me to buy maize. Up to now, none of them is available on the phone and I don’t know if they are alive or dead." Gudila Massawe, affected by landslide

ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in Latin America

It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict be…

America’s Only Election Choices Are Imperialism Or Fascism

Biden’s a Nazi abroad, Trump’s a Nazi at home. Pick your poison

Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn

Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms

Climate Crossfire: From Gaza to Ukraine, How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos

Broadcasting from COP28 in Dubai as Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza, Democracy Now! investigates how militarism and war fuel the climate crisis. “The jets, the tanks, the bombs, the missiles, all of these things that we are seeing raining down on people, they’re all fossil fuel-dependent,” says Deborah Burton, co-author of a new report that shows increased spending by NATO nations will divert millions of dollars from climate finance while increasing greenhouse gas emissions. “We are absolutely going in the wrong direction.” Shirine Jurdi, a women, peace and security expert with close colleagues in Gaza, lays out how women are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis and the global war machine. “If we want to talk about real impacts and outputs out of this COP, we really need to look at militarization.”

Scholar who measures Pentagon's carbon footprint wins Grawemeyer world order prize

/PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. military must reduce its dependence on fossil fuels so the world can effectively address climate change, says the winner of the 2024...