Jeff Bezos, founder of sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin, inspects New Shepard’s West Texas launch facility before the rocket’s maiden voyage. Photo courtesy Blue Origin. What’s being called “luxury pollution” by the mega-rich is having quite a moment in the media during the second week of COP26. That may
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Canadian Dimension: Why Québec’s big bet on hydropower is bad news for the climate
Photo by Fré Sonneveld/Unsplash Hydro-Québec’s goal to be “the battery of North America” recently received a setback in Maine. Some 60 percent of voters in a November 2 referendum in that state rejected the New England Clean Energy Corridor (NECEC)—a 233 kilometer high-voltage, direct-current transmission line intended to bring power
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada’s Left?
Illustration by DonkeyHotey With a U.S.-backed military coup or invasion in Venezuela looking ever more likely, Canada’s progressive leftists are pushing for the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) to abandon its “reactionary” foreign policy position on that country. As well, at the annual NDP convention (February 15 – 18), the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare
Economic Warfare – Image: Jared Rodriguez / truthout; Adapted: Pfc. Andrya Hill Most people are horrified to watch Venezuela seemingly on the verge of outright civil war, or worse, an invasion by U.S. military forces. The death toll continues to rise in the violent street protests led by the right-wing
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