Reprinted from TomDispatch.com Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania By Ellen Cantarow More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. The Marshall Islands were also struck. This formerly pristine Pacific atoll was branded “the most contaminated…
This is a fascinating article, and huge. The idea is that — worldwide — stocks based on carbon reserves are essentially a multi-trillion dollar bubble, because they cannot actually ever be burned (if they are burned it’s — as James Hansen has said — “game over for Planet Earth”). The bubble is real only if carbon…
How to Turn a World Lacking in Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe By Tom Engelhardt The communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration. Guam, Hawaii,Washington: all, it claims, are targetable. The coverage in the media has been hair-raising. The U.S….
When the subject of revenue increases comes up, Republicans usually complain that the United States is among the most highly taxed country in the world, and that taxes must be lowered. Here’s a graph — from a report by Citizens for Tax Justice — that proves that the US bears nearly the lowest tax…
Young farmers in Scarborough, Maine can’t afford to buy land, so they lease it from the Scarborough Land Trust. Could that model work here in Nevada County, California?
