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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Danaka Katovich |Niranjan K S |Yanis Iqbal |Sanjay N. Parate
With a lot of excitement, my daughter approached me to inform me that some of the apps on her phone were offering fantastic deals on various items in observance of Women’s Day. Even though those things weren’t really helpful to me, she persisted in pushing to induce me to buy them merely because they were currently on sale. Celebrated annually on March 8th since 1911, International Women’s Day (IWD) honors the social, cultural, political, and economic accomplishments of women worldwide.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Melissa Parke |Phil Pasquini |Danaka Katovich
Clean energy security is central to India’s economic growth and sustainable development. However, nuclear power plants take 5 to 17 years longer to construct from planning to production. Additionally, nuclear power emits 23 times more carbon per unit of electricity generated than onshore wind power and costs five times more per kilowatt. The operational cost of nuclear power plants is significantly high, making them an expensive and less viable energy source compared to renewable alternatives.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Melissa Parke |Phil Pasquini |Danaka Katovich |Lawrence Wittner
GENEVA – This will be a year of anniversaries linked to the end of World War II in 1945, with the most significant being the invention and first use of nuclear weapons. In fact, the development, testing, and use of nuclear weapons continue to shape our lives today, 80 years on.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Danaka Katovich |Lawrence Wittner |William D. Hartung
With the world awash in countless power-hungry cloud-computing and AI data centers, crypto mining farms, growing fleets of electrical vehicles, new all-electric homes and commercial buildings, existing power generation capacity and distribution grids globally are experiencing overloads and power supply shortages. In the US, operators are looking at increasing the electrical power supply by 3.5 gigawatts of additional generating power which is enough to power three million homes.
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2 months ago | 
laprogressive.com | Danaka Katovich |Rob Maurer
I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young people who have never experienced war, ‘Wars begin covertly. If you sense it coming, it may be too late.’” -Takato Michishita, survivor of the bombing of Nagasaki. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Catskill Mountains where New Yorkers went for the summer to escape the city heat, Alice Slater’s mother took her to go see a movie in town.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Danaka Katovich |Lawrence Wittner |William D. Hartung |S G Vombatkere
I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young people who have never experienced war, ‘Wars begin covertly. If you sense it coming, it may be too late.’” -Takato Michishita, survivor of the bombing of Nagasaki. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Catskill Mountains where New Yorkers went for the summer to escape the city heat, Alice Slater’s mother took her to go see a movie in town.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner |Danaka Katovich |William D. Hartung |S G Vombatkere
Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons―the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Starting with the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, these agreements helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
commondreams.org | Danaka Katovich
Last week, aerial photos from Los Angeles with blocks of homes reduced to ash hit social media timelines, leading people to understandably draw comparisons to Gaza. Destruction of entire neighborhoods is always heartbreaking. Home, where most of us spend a great deal of our time, shapes who we are. The memories and love a home can hold are much larger than whatever the square footage may be.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Danaka Katovich
In 30 years, on some fall morning like today, we wake up and turn on the news. No one is talking about banning abortion or “legalizing abortion” because we don’t talk about wombs like they exist to be legislated around anymore. Instead they are announcing the closing of U.S. military bases in the Pacific, and returning the land to its stewards. Once places of pollution, sexual violence, and war buildup, these bases are something else now.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Danaka Katovich
The future of all that we cherish is on the line and we—all of us—have to fight like hell to protect democracy, human decency, and a liveable planet. There has never been a greater need for independent media that is free from corporate influence and partisan bullshit in the coming weeks and months. Will you donate to our Fall Campaign to keep the progressive, nonprofit journalism of Common Dreams alive? Our future is on the line and there has never been a greater need for independent media.
