Disasters
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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown
Ellen BrownEllen Brown -- Web of Debt April 13, 2023 Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather fought at Gettysburg and homesteaded the 160-acre farm after the Civil War. My grandmother sold it in the 1960s for $13,000, lacking a male heir to do the work; but my relatives still live i ...
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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...
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Anatomy Of A Financial Meltdown | Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniA vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Mar 13, 2023 In this February 2008 c ...
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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown
Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-ne ...
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6 Reasons to Feel Grateful During Covid — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World News Trust September 20, 2021 A novel coronavirus, deadly and unnecessary lockdowns, civil unrest, political division, economic crises, a rise in mental health issues — the list goe ...
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We’re All in This Together! — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World News Trust September 18, 2021 (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of World News Trust.) In 2020, health care workers co ...
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A Prayer for Nonbelievers | John Michael Greer
A familiar volume.Sept. 1, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- I was 10 years old when The Limits to Growth first saw print. I have a dim memory of seeing a newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things ...
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The System Isn't Broken, It’s Fixed — Mickey Z.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of World News Trust) Mickey Z. — World News Trust August 29, 2021 Both chronic stress and manipulativ ...
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Greed and Consumption: Why the World is Burning | Ramzy Baroud
NSW Fire and Rescue officers fight a bushfire encroaching on properties in Australia in December 2019. (Photo: via AJE) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2021 Rome is scorching hot. This beau ...
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Why “Activists” Love Their Masks — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 26, 2021 Yet another topic I've been asked to write about is why I quit activism all those years ago. To be radically honest, I've already tackled this subject in se ...
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What We Can Still Accomplish | John Michael Greer
July 7, 2021 (EcoSophia.net} -- One of the unexpected benefits of posting my reflections on the future of industrial society in public is that quite often I get advance warning of events on the horiz ...
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