Oh boy. Plastics? Well, we need less of those anyways (and maybe actually recycle them?). Pharmaceuticals? Yeah, that's a BIG problem! Maybe manufacture them in smaller factories locally. As for fertilizer? Let's see... #Urea, #nitrogen and #ammonia -- all can come from urine! And sulphur? Grow more garlic and onions rather than use oil production byproducts. WTF!

"Around 30% of fertilizer products go through the Strait of Hormuz. Quatar is the world’s biggest producer of urea, a key input to fertiliser manufacture. The region also produces around 35% of the urea and 23% of the ammonia, another feedstock for nitrogenous fertiliser, which is exported globally. Sulphur, another component of fertiliser manufacture, is also produced in the region as a by-product of oil production."

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/war/the-hormuz-dry-run-life-without-oil-and-petrochemicals/

#USPol #WorldPol #PeakOil #LimitsToGrowth #Petrochemicals #LifeBeyondOil #BeyondOil #BigAg #RegenerativeAgriculture #SolarPunkSunday #LtG

"It is no accident that you have been scared by the IDEA of an apocalypse, a fundamental change in the world since you were a child. It isn't an accident that your inner life teeters between expectations of stability and the idea that there will be nothing on the other side of collapse - that's an intentional belief to keep you preferring the fantasy of false stability."

https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Speech-Your-Graduates-Deseve-X5V21ZUBM9

#climatechange #fascism #collapse #oil #uspol #worldpol

The worldwide battle against authoritarians continues. Let's check in:
Immigrants detailed in ICE Terror Raids in Chicago seek damage. https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-immigration-raid-ice-dhs-fbi-federal-tort-claims

Seems like Democrats in Georgia are a lot more enthusiastic than Republicans. https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/05/democrats-outpace-republicans-in-early-voting-in-georgia-primaries/

#politics #uspol #democracy #freedom #worldpol

Three #Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on #GazaSoupKitchen as bodies brought to hospital

Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a soup kitchen in central Gaza on Sunday, according to officials at the hospital where the bodies were brought.

Published 10:26 PM EDT, May 17, 2026

https://apnews.com/video/three-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-gaza-soup-kitchen-as-bodies-brought-to-hospital-dc1ce36cf8eb41a7a3402a91bab2ebed

#IsraeliWarCrimes #WorldPol
#FreeGaza #FreePalestine #GazaCity #BibiIsAWarCriminal

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/116582162404563176

Everyone get ready for a new flood of bots denying Israel's ongoing apartheid, genocide and military aggression.

#politics #worldpol #israel

The Silence That Meets the Rape of #Palestinians

Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of #Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.

By Nicholas Kristof
May 11, 2026

"There is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes. But in recent years they have built a security apparatus where sexual violence has become, as a United Nations report put it last year, one of Israel’s 'standard operating procedures' and 'a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians.' A report out last month, from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based advocacy group often critical of Israel, concludes that Israel employs 'systematic sexual violence' that is 'widely practiced as part of an organized state policy.' "

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wCOUZ

#RapeCulture #NYT #IsraeliWarCrimes #USPol #WorldPol #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestinianPrisoners #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FuckThePatriarchy

#Israeli Real Estate Expo Advertising #WestBank Settlements Returns to NYC

The controversial event and the NYPD’s response to resulting protests present a test for Mayor #ZohranMamdani.

By Noah Hurowitz

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/11/real-estate-expo-israel-west-bank-settlement-nyc/

#USPol #WorldPol #FreeGaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #SettlerColonialism

An Iranian museum holds a rare exhibit of American art, reflecting on war

By MEHDI FATTAHI
Updated 11:43 AM EDT, May 8, 2026

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — "The artworks are distinctly American — famed pieces in vivid colors wrestling with themes of war, violence, pop culture and commercialism. What’s startling is where they’re on display: In a museum in the Iranian capital, at a time the two countries are locked in conflict.

"While the city’s streets are lined with anti-American billboards and posters, #Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art opened an exhibit this week of six works by three American Pop artists of the 1960s -- #RoyLichtenstein, #RobertIndiana and #JamesRosenquist – mainly chosen for their #AntiWar themes.

"The works come from the museum’s large collection of masterpieces of American and European modern art that was acquired by the wife of the former shah in the 1970s. Most of it has been kept out of view since the Western-backed monarch was ousted by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

"After living under #USIsraeli bombardment for weeks, the young men and women strolling the gallery felt a resonance from the works.

"Some contemplated #Rosenquist’s 'F-111,' a collage dating to the era of the U.S. bombardment of #Vietnam that critiques America’s #MilitaryIndustrialComplex with images of a warplane’s fuselage, a #nuclear #MushroomCloud and a child’s face."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-american-pop-art-museum-b5f86ef0fe42badd4cdce38c395d9e21

#WorldPol #USWarOnIran #NoWar

Not mentioned in this news story -- the #CDC! Another #TrumpFail!

https://apnews.com/article/hantavirus-outbreak-hondius-cruise-ship-df0e7e1fb9c7fd3e4092be06e684f644

#Hantavirus #CDCFail #USPol #WorldPol #TrumpSucks