Daily Archives: June 29, 2021

28. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 30, 2021

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28.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 30, 2021https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/28.html Prevent Wars, Block US Aggression: Pass HR 256.Defend Critical Media and Denounce US Censorship and Hypocrisy.Roots of US Colonialism and Empire: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and David Vine books reviewed by Michael E. TigarPeacemakers H.R. 256: PASSED!  Michael Galant 6-26-21 10:51 AM (1 hour ago) Dick — It was just 18 months ago when Trump ordered the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, bringing Iran and the United States to the brink of a catastrophic war.  The claimed legal authority to do so? An 18-year-old law authorizing the invasion of Iraq. What have these two things got […]

29. OMNI Climate Memo Mondays, June 28, 2021

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/climate-memo-mondays-29-june-28-2021.html The Great Adaptation:  Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe by Romain Felli.  Translated by David Broder.  Verso, 2021. Publisher’s description: How capitalism wants us to adapt to climate change rather than stop it.The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to deal with the challenge that climate change poses to capitalism by promoting adaptation to its consequences, rather than combating its causes. Since the 1970s, neoliberal economists and ideologues have used climate change as an argument for creating more “flexibility” in society, for promoting more market-based solutions to environmental and social questions. This book unveils the political economy […]