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Posted by Joan Russow
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019 10:07 |
Tom Dispatch https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKJVRQMhMCccVGRgzjtbVwlhDdncrhCDjPrJlXWrfxDXXLTcNxxGTpcCpxRDSTLKZvvv[
Editorial note: This remnant of a manuscript, discovered in a vault near the coastal town of Walpole, Massachusetts, appears to have been part of a larger project, probably envisioned as an interpretive history of the United States since the year 2000. Only a single chapter, probably written near the midpoint of the twenty-first century, has survived. Whether the remainder of the manuscript has been lost or the author abandoned it before its completion is unknown.]
Chapter 1
The Launch
From our present vantage point, it seems clear that, by 2019, the United States had passed a point of no return. In retrospect, this was the moment when indications of things gone fundamentally awry should have become unmistakable. Although at the time much remained hidden in shadows, the historic pivot now commonly referred to as the Great Reckoning had commenced.
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Sunday, 23 June 2019 17:40 |
Tomgram: Allegra Harpootlian, Ending the Forever Wars?
Posted by Allegra Harpootlian at 3:15pm, June 23, 2019. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch.
I remember well the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era. I was in it and it was distinctly in the streets, big time. I was typical, for instance, in traveling to Washington in October 1967 for a march on the Pentagon, which proved to be the largest antiwar protest ever staged to that point -- a crowd so vast I had never seen the likes of it before. And I returned to the capital a year or two later for a far more chaotic antiwar demonstration in which I remember having to choose between staying with a bold friend eager to rush further into the tear-gas-laced streets around the Washington Mall or run for it -- alone. (I reluctantly chose to stay.) And then there were all the little moments of work and opposition over so many years, the moments when you weren’t with crowds of people in those streets, but you were still focused on opposing that American war from hell.
And then, of course,
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Earth News
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Monday, 27 May 2019 10:58 |
FULL STORY: E&E NEWS @EENEWSUPDATES
MAY 26, 2019PRIMARY AUTHOR MIKE LEE @MIKELEEFW0
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https://theenergymix.com/2019/05/26/with-industry-dating-back-to-1859-pennsylvania-struggles-with-200000-orphan-wells/
Although pressure is building on the fossil industry to address fugitive emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells, deadbeat drillers and insufficient public funds for cleanup mean Pennsylvania landowners who once played host to oil and gas extraction remain captive to all that was left behind.
While orphan wells have emerged as a tough, legally contentious issue in Alberta and British Columbia, they’re a much more established problem in Pennsylvania, where the United States’ first well was drilled in 1859, E&E News reports. Today, the state is “home to between 200,000 and 750,000 so-called orphan wells that have been abandoned and that have no apparent owner.” Taken together, these wells “emit 40,000 to 70,000 tonnes of methane a year, between 5% and 8% of the state’s human-caused methane emissions.”
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Justice News
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Wednesday, 15 May 2019 07:18 |
Originally Published on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 by Common Dreams

The Al Marzoqah oil tanker on Monday, a day after it was attacked outside the Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates. (Photo: EPA-EFE)
Is the Trump administration attempting to concoct a false pretext to justify launching a war against Iran?
Gareth Porter without citing any concrete evidence blamed Iran for reported attacks on Saudi and UAE oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.
Commentators quickly likened the accusations to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, referring to the "fabricated" event that President Lyndon Johnson used to massively escalate America's war in Vietnam.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 May 2019 10:40 |
Peace News
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Monday, 13 May 2019 05:07 |
on War May 7, 2019
By William D. Hartung, Mandy Smithberger & Tom Dispatch
https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-is-spending-1-25-trillion-annually-on-war/
The military gravy train is running full speed ahead. - AIRMAN 1ST CLASS VALERIE SEELYE /
U.S. AIR FORCE May 7, 2019
In its latest budget request, the Trump administration is asking
U.S. AIR FORCE May 7, 2019
In its latest budget request, the Trump administration is asking for a near-record $750
billion for the Pentagon and related defense activities, an astonishing figure by any
measure. If passed by Congress, it will, in fact, be one of the largest military budgets in
American history,topping peak levels reached during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. And
keep one thing in mind: that $750 billion represents only part of the actual annual cost of
our national security state.
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