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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Cities are liable to heat up much more than open countryside as the climate warms, and in the case of New York City, this could mean a big increase in heat-related deaths.
Posted on May 24, 2013
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By David Sirota — There is something troubling about government leaders initially implying—if subtly—that a nongovernmental response is as significant as a governmental one.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
This new media landscape is more hostile to the civic community and discourages the younger generation from believing that change is truly within our grasp.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group, and one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment. But we don’t have one for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on. “Terracide,” from the Latin word for earth, has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Establishing what temperatures suit different species of fish has enabled scientists to find elusive evidence of what climate change is doing to oceans.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Joe Conason — An interview with Thomas Pickering, the distinguished American diplomat who oversaw the State Department’s Benghazi review board and has found himself a target of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the excitable partisan who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla., this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornadoes can do, but by a political sentiment that, in almost any other era, would not have been surprising at all.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Timothy Murphy —
Last Friday marked the 100th day of the detainees’ hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. I am not a Guantanamo detainee, but I too began a water-only hunger fast.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Nearly 12 years after it was first enacted, the Authorization for Use of Military Force remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations, to kill people with drone “signature strikes,” based not on guilt but on a remote analysis of a suspect’s “patterns of life.”
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Los Angeles election Tuesday again revealed a city unlike most of the country—more liberal, more deeply Democratic, yet also more interested in medical marijuana than the troubles of the poor.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The bombs that ended the Boston Marathon in April were planted by young Muslims who had come to the United States as immigrants, rejected America as a civilization, and then attacked it, leaving behind a message of religious war.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Most of the world’s glaciers are retreating more slowly than the few that are shrinking fast. But new research confirms that almost all of them are losing mass.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch —
The streets are much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. It’s 2023—and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — Here’s a modest idea to break the gridlock, the stupidity, the meanness, the partisan lying and irresponsible ineffectiveness of modern Washington. We should consider returning to the Middle Ages.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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