AI Creates a Counterfeit of Meaning
Commentary by Bhikkhu Sujato When there is something in you that needs saying, and you have a means of saying it, and there is someone to hear what you’re saying, meaning is created. It’s not…
Climate Denialists Left NC Vulnerable to Hurricane Helene’s Worst Destruction
By Lucy Dean Stockton and Freddy Brewster While North Carolina was once a national leader in renewable energy and climate change resiliency policies, that changed in the early 2010s when Republicans secured control of both…
Study: Exported Gas Far Worse Than Coal
By Oliver Milman Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper that challenges the controversial yet rapid…
Solar-Plus-Storage
The quickest, most affordable way to tackle the climate crisis and cut power bills By NC WARN North Carolina regulators persistently go along with Duke Energy’s years-long assault on its only competition: rooftop solar power…
Israel’s War on Gaza Only Possible Due to U.S.
Support and Weapons Commentary by Ben Norton Israel would not realistically be able to wage war on Gaza without US support. Citing a senior Israeli air force official, prominent newspaper Haaretz reported that, “without the…
The U.S. Is Israel’s Accomplice
Not A Ceasefire Mediator Commentary by Belén Fernández On July 21, 2006, nine days into the 34-day Israeli war on Lebanon that killed 1,200 people, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opined that “an…
Israel and the US Know the Soldier Who
Assassinated Aysengur Eygi By Colonel (ret) Ann Wright U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was working to “gather the facts” about U.S. citizen Aysenur Eygi’s killing by Israel military forces. They Know…
How the Neocons Chose Hegemony Over Peace
Commentary by Jeffrey D. Sachs In 1999, when Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister and in 2000 when he became President, Putin sought friendly and mutually supportive international relations between Russia and the West. Many European…
NATO Announces Nuclear Drills as Nobel Goes to
Atomic Weapon Abolitionists By Jessica Corbett The NATO military block announced on Oct. 11 that its annual nuclear exercise is set to begin in mid-October—news that arrived just as Japanese atomic bomb survivors who advocate…
If Parents Don’t Fight to Protect Children from
Covid In Schools, Nobody Else Will By Tess Finch-Lees “It’s not your fault,” I told 16-year-old Cara, whose mother died of a SARS-CoV-2 infection she gave her. To be clear, the doctor confirmed Cara (not…