“We cannot continue to wait around for a bunch of corporate shills in Congress to do nothing while people are dying,” said one climate campaigner. JAKE JOHNSON July 15, 2022 President Joe Biden on Friday faced calls to respond forcefully to Sen. Joe Manchin’s latest climate obstruction by canceling a fracked gas pipeline in the…
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Editor’s Note: Chomsky says “So, criminality and stupidity on the Kremlin side, severe provocation on the U.S. side. That’s the background that has led to this [the Ukraine war]. Can we try to bring this horror to an end? Or should we try to perpetuate it? Those are the…
[Editor’s Note: Fascinating. Have you wondered why the GOP imposed such stringent retirement fund requirements on the US Post Office? It turns out, according to Thom Hartmann, that they did it to so burden the Post Office that it could not afford to convert its fleet of trucks to EVs (electronic vehicles), keeping the…
By Randall J. Newsome Of all the lofty promises Rise Gold has churned out over the preceding months, none has been more ballyhooed than the number of jobs the mine would create, and the $94,000 average annual wage they’ll pay. Before anyone runs to get in line for one of these dream jobs, let’s…
By Paul Schwartz There are many development options for the Idaho-Maryland Mine property on Brunswick Road that are better than reopening the mine. Many options are consistent with the Nevada County General Plan and would not require zoning changes, special use permits, or variances that reopening the mine requires. There are many development options…