Climate Journalism
mercredi 22 mai 2019 à 02:00
Bill Moyers's speech to a conference on climate journalism: "Soon, some of you will be traveling to the ends of the earth to report on this Great Disruption" — the effects of climate mayhem.
Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes
Bill Moyers's speech to a conference on climate journalism: "Soon, some of you will be traveling to the ends of the earth to report on this Great Disruption" — the effects of climate mayhem.
"Capitalism used to promise a better future. Can it still do that?"
Capitalism generally provides a better future to those who have political power. Historically, that included most workers only when and where governments helped the workers demand that. In the US before the New Deal, bosses often crushed unions with violence using thugs such as the Pinkertons.
Internal Emails Reveal How the Chemical Lobby Fights Regulation. Even for chemicals that are clearly toxic, these companies will try to delay regulation as long as possible.
"A leading United Nations poverty expert has compared Conservative welfare policies to the creation of 19th-century workhouses and warned that unless austerity is ended, the UK’s poorest people face lives that are 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'."
3500 American women per month ask for gifts of abortion medicines from overseas.
These gifts cannot be sent by from the US because the US requires a prescription for these medicines. That decision was originally made from caution, but even though the evidence since became clear that these medicines are safe, antiabortionists have lobbied against the removal of that requirement.