Cesar Uco

Oct 5, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Patrick Martin |Cesar Uco

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented climate change is happening on a regular basis and clobbering the American capitalistic system via consumer pocketbooks. People can’t afford ordinary life. They’re priced out of the market. Everything is getting more expensive by the year, every year.

Oct 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Patrick Martin |Robert Hunziker |Cesar Uco

AMSTERDAM – Ever since Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to office in 2023 and told the world that Brazil is “back on the world stage,” the government has endeavored to establish itself as a global climate leader. As the current G20 president, Brazil is pushing for a sustainable bioeconomy and scaled-up climate finance – goals that it will surely continue to pursue as the host of next year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30).

Sep 28, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Patrick Martin |Robert Hunziker |Cesar Uco |Soma Marla

The largest hurricane to hit the US mainland this year, Hurricane Helene hit the Florida coastline late Thursday as a Category Four storm, devastating much of the Big Bend area of the northern part of the state, then moving rapidly northward as a huge rainstorm, causing flooding and other weather-related damage in as many as 15 states. The death toll is already at 42, and expected to rise considerably.

Sep 27, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Cesar Uco |Soma Marla |Bill Henderson

Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’ biggest threat to continued existence. For over 30 years, climate change conference commitments to do something constructive have been embarrassing flops. What will Climate Week/NYC come up with to fix a broken climate system that’s been decades in the making?

Sep 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Kevin Reed |Vidyadhar Date |Cesar Uco

26th September, 2024: National Alliance for Justice, Accountability, and Rights (NAJAR), a pan-indian collective of progressive legal professionals for democratic causes (including many lawyers, law students, law faculty, law researchers) extends our earnest solidarity to the protesting law students at Rajiv Gandhi National Law University (RGNUL), Patiala demanding accountability for the condemnable, shocking and unacceptable behaviour of the Vice-Chancellor.