The World ‘Hanging by a Thread’: Stories to Follow in 2022
Though 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues from the previous year that will linger for a bit, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in 2022 as well. […]
climate change
Gates and Bennett to Join Forces to Combat Climate Change (VIDEO)
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met American business magnate Bill Gates on the sidelines of the Glasgow Climate Summit COP26, Israeli media reported. According to The Times of Israel, “The pair agree to establish a […]
Shtayyeh at COP26: ‘Israel is the Most Critical Threat to Palestinian Environment’
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh highlighted the negative impact of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian environment in a tweet, upon his arrival at the Glasgow Climate Summit on Monday. “With leaders from across […]
Climate Change: Beyond the Tipping Point
Twenty years and more ago climate talk concerned long-term global warming effects not really occurring until the mid-twenty-first century at earliest with most problems occurring toward the end of the century. I remember thinking I […]
Where Best to Ride out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream
Having written posts on this blog for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of our belief system. […]
Greed and Consumption: Why the World is Burning
Rome is scorching hot. This beautiful city is becoming unbearable for other reasons, too. Though every corner of the beaming metropolis is a monument to historical grandeur, from the Colosseum in Rione Monti to the […]
‘I Am Greta’ isn’t about Climate Change. It’s about the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between […]
I’m Waiting: Possible Scenarios for the New Decade
Perhaps I read too many alternative articles on too many internet sites, but with all the counter-perspective information (counter to the main stream media), my information addled brain is waiting for one of several events […]
