GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 08 October 2023
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The past couple of years in Antarctica have been a rough and tumble affair of erratic climate change with record-high temperatures and totally unexpected ice shelf collapse. The continent is starting to reflect the impact of a warming planet that’s just too hot for icy comfort. So, what surprises will this year’s summer season bring?
At the tail end of Antarctica’s 2022 summer, during the start of autumn in March ’22, temperatures along the... Read more
By Don Fitz / 03 October 2023
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The year 2023 saw the hottest Summer on record in the northern hemisphere while those in the southern hemisphere felt the hottest winter on record. It was followed by a Fall with terrifying storms and floods across the globe. The number of people attributing climate catastrophe to economic growth is mounting.
Not all agree that growth is the problem. Some respond that growth is here to stay and that the concept of “degrowth” is idealistic... Read more
By Angelika Mueller-Rowry / 27 September 2023
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Green Social Thought Endorses “Black People’s March” in Washington, D.C. on November 4
November 4, 2023, marks the 15th Annual March on the White House sponsored by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, co-sponsored by an Anticolonial Free Speech Coalition that was formed last July.
This year the “Black People’s March” calls for solidarity with all those targeted by the U.S. government’s mounting persecution. It is carried by a growing... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 24 September 2023
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Earth’s climate system is in a state of emergency. Emergencies are defined by four specific elements; they are (1) serious (2) unexpected (3) dangerous, and (4) require immediate action. Based upon a new YouTube broadcast by the inveterate commentator Dr. Peter Carter, all those elements are in-play in a very big way.
Dr. Carter, expert reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and director of the Climate Emergency Institute, posted a... Read more
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By Huáscar Salazar Lohman / 05 November 2023
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Luis Arce, the President of Bolivia, is no longer responding to the demands of his ex-boss, former President Evo Morales. The struggle for control of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and the presidential candidacy in 2025 is taking place in a country ravaged by fires, droughts, and as economic crisis looms large. Morales enjoys strong support... Read more
By Mohsen Nagheeby and others / 03 November 2023
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The weaponization of water and its infrastructure has become increasingly evident in recent armed conflicts. These acts seriously threaten the lives of the civilian population, especially the most vulnerable groups, such as children. Two days after Hamas launched its attack, Israel imposed a “total” blockade and cut the water supplies into the already... Read more
By Michael Fox / 01 November 2023
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Unions on strike. School classes cancelled. Workers, teachers and indigenous groups are in the streets. They’re protesting the government’s approval of a renegotiated contract with a Canadian mining firm for the operation of Central America’s largest open-pit copper mine. The copper mine is run by Canada’s First Quantum Minerals, with investors... Read more
By TODD MILLER / 27 October 2023
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The acclaimed Israeli author and anthropologist explains how Israel has become an enforcer for fortress Global North, selling systems of control first developed in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
By Chris Hedges, Scheer Post / 21 October 2023
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Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic regimes. It does not deform the truth, it inverts it. It paints a picture that is diametrically opposed to reality. Those of us who have covered the occupied territories have run into Israel’s Alice-in-Wonderland narratives, which we dutifully insert into our stories — required under the rules of American journalism —... Read more
By Tanupriya Singh / 18 October 2023
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Located in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands, the district of Mbarali in the Mbeya region has long been considered the country’s “rice basket”. However, for the past year, smallholder farmers in the area have been unable to cultivate the grain even to securely feed themselves, let alone produce for the market. These farmers are among 21,252 people in... Read more
By Ilham Rawoot / 17 October 2023
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The notion that climate change is a class issue is not a new discussion. Yet the disconnect between the movements for socio-economic justice and climate justice seems to persist with no success in sight. The climate crisis and economic inequality stem from the system of capitalism and neo-colonialism, and if we don’t fight them as one collective... Read more