The Florida Democratic Party has been pretty moribund in recent years, confining itself in a few small urban ghettos and leaving progressive ideas and values without champions in vast swathes of the state. Southwest Florida is pretty much all red now thanks to Florida Democratic Party neglect and negligence.
Neocon domination of the U.S. foreign policy establishment has foreclosed serious debate over Israel’s strangling control of Palestinian water resources and what that means for the future of that ghetto-ized population, as Chuck Spinney explains. By Chuck Spinney Access to water is one…Read more →
Flint water — a weapon of mass destruction (not a metaphor). Source.by Gaius PubliusI'm a former resident of Michigan, in particular, Saginaw and Flint, and in my mind there's never been a question that the Republican and Rick Snyder attack on both Detroit and Flint are racist to the core.
Tuesday, in all the hubbub over the State of the Union, the House sat down to pass another piece of toxic legislation-- literally toxic legislation-- while no one was looking. They passed H.R. 1644, a bill to block the Department of Interior’s proposed Stream Protection Rule that aims to better protect mining communities from the harmful impacts of coal mining pollution.
Silicon life forms declare war on "ugly giant bags of mostly water" — in other words, us.by Gaius PubliusWater is literally the stuff of life for living beings. All life began as single-celled organisms floating in water. In their earliest and simplest form, living things are organized bags of water capable of reproduction, whose "inside" water is held together by a permeable or semi-permeable membrane ("sack" or "skin") through which nutrients borne by the "outside" water (the environment) pass in, and through which waste passes out.
Current drought status in the U.S. Note the color-coded legend in the lower-right portion of the graphic (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusI started to write a piece about a nice BillMoyers.com write-up of a good set of feature (and media-interactive) reports at ProPublica.
This week, you probably heard a lot of Democrats applauding the promulgation of a new rule by the EPA and Army Corp of Engineers meant to limit pollution in rivers, lakes and wetlands. Progressives may be angry with Obama over TPP but were overjoyed that he's moving ahead with this environmental promise.
That much water gets you half a glass of oil (image source)by Gaius PubliusAs regular readers know, I've been on about California water lately — in particular, the drought, the rationing and the so-called
