GST Original Articles
By Kim Scipes / 19 September 2023
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The United States in the World: Making Sense of the Past Forty Years (1981-2023)-Part 1
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NOTE TO READER: This is a lengthy article, co-published with Z Network, that is broken up into five parts so as not to make it too overwhelming; the sections differ in length; it will be published on five consecutive days. Each section has its own endnotes and references. Each URL referenced was checked in late July 2023 and is operational unless otherwise noted... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 11 September 2023
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Japan cannot possibly outlive the atrocity of dumping radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. In fact, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is an example of how nuclear meltdowns negatively impact the entire world, as its toxic wastewater travels across the world in ocean currents. The dumping of stored toxic wastewater from the meltdown in 2011 officially started on August 24, 2023. Meanwhile, the country restarts some of the nuclear... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 11 August 2023
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Nuclear reactors are directly in the line of fire of global warming.
In fact, nuclear reactors cannot survive global warming. But that’s only the start of serious issues with the world’s newly found love affair with nuclear energy. This article examines the likelihood of nuclear energy as a fixit for global warming, or is it a victim?
The world is turning to nuclear energy as one solution for raging global warming, which has been in... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 14 July 2023
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Will the world’s major coastal cities, such as NYC, survive escalating global heat conditions in Greenland? And what if both Greenland and Antarctica follow the recent very disturbing pattern of the world’s oceans? For the first time that scientists can recall, sea surface temperatures that always recede from annual peaks are failing to do so, staying high.
Climate change is getting dangerously worse, which is becoming a more common statement... Read more
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By Alexander Rubinstein and Anya Parampil / 27 September 2023
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In private, Juan Orlando Hernández vowed to “stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,” while in public, he was heartily embraced by Obama administration officials, including the current US president, Joe Biden. Despite possessing intimate knowledge of Hernández’s criminal activities, officials in the Obama White House worked tirelessly to... Read more
By Rachel Sherrington and Hazel Healy / 24 September 2023
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By Essam Elkorghli / 21 September 2023
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By Chris Bambery / 18 September 2023
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11 September 1973, saw a military coup which did not just overthrow the elected Chilean government but unleashed savage repression, which left 30,000 workers dead and countless others tortured, maimed, without work and hungry. One of the aims of the coup [was] to fragment and dismember one of the most insurgent working classes on the continent. Popular... Read more
By Yves Engler / 17 September 2023
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The private car is an engine of profit accumulation and conspicuous consumption. Class and corporate forces drove the private car’s rise but institutional myopia and crass electoralism help explain its ongoing dominance.
By Chris Hedges / 17 September 2023
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By Bill Henderson / 15 September 2023
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A report this Spring showed that while renewable capacity continues to grow like topsy, emissions continue to rise. We are just building a larger energy capacity, not reducing emissions. Shouldn’t we know that historically new energy sources add to instead of displacing existing sources of energy; that renewables aren’t decreasing fossil fuel use, ... Read more