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Mark Twain is widely credited with having said: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”  In fact, the credit ought to go to Twain’s friend and co-author of The Gilded Age, Charles Dudley Warner – but so what?  It is a timely quip.  And if we substitute “infrastructure” for “weather,” we have a spot on description of the state of play in what is likely to be one of the major “issues” heading into the 2018 midterm elections.

By Megan Darby / Climate Change News.
Campaigners plan to take their bid to block Arctic oil exploration licences to Norway’s supreme court, after a district court dismissed their case

Polar Pioneer rig in the Barents Sea (Pic: Harald Pettersen/Statoil ASA)

By: Tara Copp / Military Times.

By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet

They have no choice but to fight on.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Vijay Prashad

By Reynard Loki / AlterNet.

Justice Department urged to launch criminal probe after tribes submit evidence of Chevron's fabrication of witness testimony.

Activists at a "True Cost of Chevron" protest at a Chevron gas station in San Francisco, May 24, 2011.Photo Credit: Liana Lopez via TonyaHennessey/Flickr

By Ranjeni Munusamy / The Dawn.
 
13/01/2017. ANC supporters during the ANC 106 birthday celebrations at ABSA Stadium in East London.Picture: Masi Losi
The Zuma conundrum splits the ANC, but who holds the key?
By Ranjeni Munusamy / Source:  TimesLive / February 1, 2018

By: Atilio A. Borón / Source: Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn News / February 4, 2018

By John H. Cushman Jr. / Inside Climate News.
The oil giant tells investors that even if Paris climate goals are met, it could still produce all the oil in its existing fields and keep investing in new reserves.

Nearly two-thirds of Exxon's shareholders voted last year for the oil giant to prepare a climate risk report. Exxon's conclusion: nothing suggests the end of fossil fuels. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance

By Gregory Wilpert and Alberto Acosta