Shell, Exxon say some pollution released as Harvey hit Texas The Associated Press Published: August 30, 2017, 1:48 am Updated: August 30, 2017, 3:05 am https://mgtvwkrn.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/ap_17242019902046-e1504056492342.jpg Businesses are surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harve...

Experts Say Climate Change Intensified Hurricane Harvey http://www.telesurtv.net/__export/1503969528800/sites/telesur/img/news/2017/08/28/harvey_reuters.png_1718483346.png Flooded downtown seen from a high rise along Buffalo Bayou after Hurricane Harvey caused widespread flooding, in Houston, August...

Venezuela to Donate $5M to Harvey Victims in Texas https://www.telesurtv.net/__export/1504108531065/sites/telesur/img/news/2017/08/30/0004670696.jpg_1718483346.jpg Houston residents trudge through floodwaters. | Photo: AFP Published 30 August 2017 Venezuela has extended its solidarity to the victims...

Now that the breathless reportage is subsiding with the water we might consider what capitalism has got to do with it all. How has capitalist driven climate change increased the intensity/rainfall of these storms? How did the anarchy of market driven development, in total disregard of environmental ...

Kostas Papadakis - The equation of Communism with Nazism is unacceptable and provocative By Kostas Papadakis*. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--g6ggh6kIx8/Vz4Q_VIdxiI/AAAAAAAAAz0/m7dEu8x8MQIB4ys9TJDmSDMsL-yOsY06ACPcBGAYYCw/s320/Papadakis%2BKostas%2BKKE%2BMEP.jpg Article first published in the “Efimerida ...

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In these days we need reminders. ***************************** https://2jnjpz34p77w1q3shs2fsoem-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Feature_Labor_A-1024x536.jpg A Louisville union built its strength 
as blacks, whites took on International Harvester AUG 30 2017 BY TONI GILPIN They cro...

Venezuela Rejects MUD’s Fascist Communiqué Posted by CO-ADMIN on AUGUST 28, 2017 The Venezuelan government categorically rejected this Sunday the communiqué issued by the opposition coalition MUD, which supports the economic aggression against Venezuela by the United States government. In this messa...

Brasil’s US-Funded “Libertarians” & the Far-Right BLOG DEMOCRACY FOREIGN POLICY MEDIA On August 18, Vice Brasil journalist and occasional Brasil Wire contributor Marie Declerq, broke the news that the Instituto Mises Brasil think tank, which receives funding from US libertarians, has published artic...

I've just started 'The Diary of Che Guevara', Che's diary from his campaign in Bolivia. It was first printed in US in Ramparts , 1967 and has a great introduction by Fidel Castro. This is a Bantam 1968 paperback which has been on my shelf forever and the only reason that I hadn't gotten around to it...