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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Melissa Garriga |Teri Mattson |Binoy Kampmark |Michael T. Klare
America’s military budget is more than just numbers on a page—it’s a reflection of the priorities that shape our society. Right now, that nearly trillion dollar budget is bloated, inefficient, and far removed from the needs of everyday Americans. We’ve identified six simple yet effective ways to cut at least $100 billion from the Pentagon’s budget—without sacrificing even the most hawkish of war hawk’s sense of national security. Ready to take the scissors to that excess spending?
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Aaron Kirshenbaum |Melissa Garriga
The world’s largest institutional emitter, the U.S. military, sits beyond the reach of the metrics meant to hold countries accountable for climate pollution. Exempt from transparency requirements at the COP or within U.N. climate agreements, the military sector is, in fact, the leading institutional driver of the climate crisis. It burns through fossil fuels on a scale that surpasses entire nations while waging wars that destroy lives, communities, and the land itself.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nationofchange.org | Aaron Kirshenbaum |Melissa Garriga |Aaron has worked
As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual UN climate summit hosted by a petrostate, no less. They’re gathering to “discuss climate solutions”—but one of the world’s biggest contributors to the climate crisis will be entirely overlooked: the U.S. military-industrial complex.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
bignewsnetwork.com | Aaron Kirshenbaum |Melissa Garriga
As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual U.N. climate summit hosted by a petrostate, no less. They're gathering to "discuss climate solutions"-but one of the world's biggest contributors to the climate crisis will be entirely overlooked: the U.S. military-industrial complex.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Aaron Kirshenbaum |Melissa Garriga |Mukhtar Babayev |Nusrat Jan
by Aaron Kirshenbaum and Melissa Garriga As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual U.N. climate summit hosted by a petrostate, no less. They’re gathering to “discuss climate solutions”—but one of the world’s biggest contributors to the climate crisis will be entirely overlooked: the U.S. military-industrial complex.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
pressenza.com | Aaron Kirshenbaum |Melissa Garriga
As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual U.N. climate summit hosted by a petrostate, no less. They’re gathering to “discuss climate solutions”—but one of the world’s biggest contributors to the climate crisis will be entirely overlooked: the U.S. military-industrial complex.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Melissa Garriga |Roberto Sirvent
In St. James Parish, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines. Originally published in Grist. On the banks of the lower Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana, on sprawling tracts of land that break up the vast wetlands, hulking petrochemical complexes light the sky day and night. They piled up over the past half century, built by fossil fuel giants like Nucor and Occidental.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Melissa Garriga |Margaret Kimberley |Roberto Sirvent
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes. The devastation effectuated by Hurricane Helene represents yet another elucidation of a quintessential climate crisis that is right here and right now.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Philip Farruggio |Melissa Garriga |Binoy Kampmark
Anyone familiar with visiting the White House would have observed earlier today an unusual scene there, in noticing a larger than usual police presence both on the street and with heavily armed Secret Service officers walking around Lafayette Park. The pre-deployment of such a force usually hints that something out of the ordinary is afoot.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Philip Farruggio |Melissa Garriga |Binoy Kampmark |Sonali Kolhatkar
The fascist Republican Party keeps throwing out daggers, whether it be on a woman’s right to choose, worker’s rights ( Imagine, they would like to cut beyond recognition FDR’s National Labor Relations Board) , Medicare and Medicaid ( which many states have already cut in regard to Medicaid coverage), Social Security ( which millions like my wife and I rely on heavily), treatment of the asylum seekers ( coming here for jobs due to what our Central and South American ‘ friendly nations’ have...
