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Opinion & Analysis

Greed and Consumption: Why the World is Burning

Wildfires Rage Across Syria in Wake of Increased US-Led Economic Warfare

The combination of a ten year military war, maximum pressure economic sanctions, the deliberate destruction of essential civilian infrastructure and the blatant scorched earth policies of the American neocolonialist foreign policy-managers are designed to reduce Syria to another failed state following NATO’s Libya blueprint.

September 15th, 2020
Vanessa Beeley
September 15th, 2020
By Vanessa Beeley
People fleeing Latakia

For nearly two weeks, Syria has been battling a new wave of fires that have engulfed much of the agricultural and forest-rich mountainous areas of western Syria. Thanks to a corporate media blackout, very few in the West are aware of the devastation that is affecting the Syrian people already crippled by U.S.-led economic sanctions, recently

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Oregon Can’t Fight Wildfires Because Its Helicopters Were Sent To Afghanistan

Many of Oregon’s largest firefighting aircraft are not available because the Department of Defense has sent them to Afghanistan to fight in the 20-year-old war.

September 11th, 2020
Alan Macleod
September 11th, 2020
By Alan Macleod
Oregon Wildfires Feature photo

More than half a million Oregonians have been forced to flee their homes, as wildfires continue to ravage the West Coast of the United States. Amid record-breaking temperatures, the wildfires, which have charred one million acres of land, have caused the sky to turn a terrifying shade of red, with many comparing it to Mars, hell, or the apocalypse.

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Fire-Engulfed California Short on Firefighters as Prison “Slaves” Under COVID-19 Lockdown

California’s competing crises of climate change, COVID-19 and convict labor have converged to create the perfect neoliberal storm.

July 6th, 2020
Alan Macleod
July 6th, 2020
By Alan Macleod
California Wildfires Inmates Feature photo

It is the height of California's dangerous forest fire season. But despite blazes currently raging, the state’s fire department is dangerously understaffed. That is because many firefighters today are not the burly full time professionals of another era, but underpaid convict laborers risking their lives for pennies. Almost 40 percent of

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US Spent $350B On Climate Change Related Disaster Relief In Last Decade

Trump has repeatedly called climate change a hoax and withdrew the United States from the United Nations Paris climate agreement in June.

October 25th, 2017
Matthew Renda
October 25th, 2017
By Matthew Renda
Western Wildfires

A nonpartisan congressional investigative agency has released a report detailing the escalating costs of climate change-related weather events, and says the federal government must do more to grapple with fiscal problems caused by global shifts in climate. The Government Accountability Office used data from several federal agencies to estimate

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State Of Emergency Declared As Massive Wildfires Spread Across 5 States

Four other states also fighting massive blazes, including drought-stricken California.

August 24th, 2015
Nadia Prupis
August 24th, 2015
By Nadia Prupis
U.S. Forest Service emergency workers in Washington state cut brush as wildfires rage near residential areas. (Photo: AP)

Three firefighters were killed this week and President Barack Obama on Friday issued an emergency order over wildfires raging through central Washington state. Emergency workers from Australia and New Zealand have been flown in to help the crews currently fighting blazes in five states, including Washington, California, Montana, Idaho, and

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