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Aug 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Liz Theoharis |Philip Farruggio |April M. Short
Poverty hurts everywhere but it is likely to hurt more if it is surrounded by the glitter of glamor and all kinds of richness, excess of wealth and the attached wastefulness. In such circumstances poverty not only hurts but also creates extreme confusion. This appears to be the condition of an increasing number of people in the USA deprived of basic needs, including housing and essential utilities. A deprived person in a poor country can understand his poverty and live with it in better ways.
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May 7, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | April M. Short
In our time of climate crisis, there is an increasingly urgent need to quit using fossil fuels and adopt renewable energy sources. “[T]he release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels is warming our planet faster than anything we have seen in the geological record,” notes a 2020 report by Brookings.
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May 6, 2024 | 
resilience.org | April M. Short
This article was produced by Local Peace Economy. In our time of climate crisis, there is an increasingly urgent need to quit using fossil fuels and adopt renewable energy sources. “[T]he release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels is warming our planet faster than anything we have seen in the geological record,” notes a 2020 report by Brookings.
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May 4, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | April M. Short
The nonprofit Solar United Neighbors (SUN) is one group working to help communities move away from fossil fuels toward solar power. In our time of climate crisis, there is an increasingly urgent need to quit using fossil fuels and adopt renewable energy sources. “[T]he release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels is warming our planet faster than anything we have seen in the geological record,” notes a 2020 report by Brookings.
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May 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Megan Russell |Kim Petersen |April M. Short |Phil Pasquini
Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the military, torn from their families, forced to kill each other, and forced to die.
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May 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | April M. Short |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Tina Casey |Richard Heinberg
The nonprofit Solar United Neighbors (SUN) is one group working to help communities move away from fossil fuels toward solar power. In our time of climate crisis, there is an increasingly urgent need to quit using fossil fuels and adopt renewable energy sources. “[T]he release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels is warming our planet faster than anything we have seen in the geological record,” notes a 2020 report by Brookings.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Pm Modi |Philip Farruggio |Bharat Dogra |April M. Short
I was channel surfing last evening and watched the Supreme Court’s new case concerning homeless encampments etc. What got me was how the government’s lawyer kept explaining how the homeless situation was being handled. HIs retort was that NGOs ( Non Governmental Organizations) have been unsuccessful in giving the necessary ‘ Helping hand’ to this burgeoning crisis throughout our nation, especially in most cities.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
nationofchange.org | April M. Short
This article was produced by Local Peace Economy. April M. Short is an editor, journalist, and documentary editor and producer. She is a co-founder of the Observatory, where she is the Local Peace Economy editor, and she is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute. Previously, she was a managing editor at AlterNet as well as an award-winning senior staff writer for Good Times, a weekly newspaper in Santa Cruz, California.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
eurasiareview.com | April M. Short
After a decade of struggling with infertility and undergoing IVF procedures, 27-year-old Alaa gave birth to her first son, Kareem—an “energetic and brilliant child” with a “sweet” soul who “filled the house with joy.” Two years later she had another child, Ahmed, nicknamed Moudi, who was “the funniest kid ever with his words and stories.”Maram Al Masri, the aunt of the boys, shared their story on Instagram, which was posted by the media collective platform, Untold Palestine, on March 18, 2024.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
scoop.co.nz | April M. Short
After a decade of struggling with infertility andundergoing IVF procedures, 27-year-old Alaa gave birth toher first son, Kareem—an “energetic and brilliantchild” with a “sweet” soul who “filled the housewith joy.” Two years later she had another child, Ahmed,nicknamed Moudi, who was “the funniest kid ever with hiswords and stories.”Maram Al Masri, the aunt of theboys, sharedtheir story on Instagram, which was posted by the mediacollective platform, UntoldPalestine, on March 18, 2024.
