Week in Review: 'Sad what we are doing'

 

Saturday, May 11, 2024 ■ The Week in Review 'Sad What We Are Doing': Global CO2 Increase Sets New All-Time Record "I'd make this the lead story in every paper and newscast on the planet," said Bill McKibben. "If we don't understand the depth of the climate crisis, we will not act in time." By Olivia Rosane • May 10, 2024 'Barbaric': Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel's Torture of Detained Palestinians "What we know about Gaza is only tip of atrocity iceberg." By Jake Johnson • May 10, 2024 'Disgusting': Israeli Minister Rebuked for 'Hamas ❤︎ Biden' Post "When Biden, far too late, pushes back just a little, this is how the far right responds," said one analyst. "There is no appeasing these murderous fanatics." By Jessica Corbett • May 9, 2024 Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I'll Help You Wreck the Planet "You won't read a more important story today," said one commentator. "Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion." By Jake Johnson • May 9, 2024 Biden 'Moving the Goal Post' With Threat to Withhold Bombs From Israel "Now Israel has a green light to destroy Rafah in slow motion," said one critic. By Brett Wilkins • May 8, 2024 Extending Trump Tax Cuts Would Add $4.6 Trillion to Deficit: CBO "We can't afford 10 more years of giveaways to the wealthy and corporations and fail to invest in the people who drive our economy," said the head of Groundwork Collaborative. "This tax law should expire." By Jessica Corbett • May 8, 2024 77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified "I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South," one expert said. By Olivia Rosane • May 8, 2024 NYC Driver Rams Into Anti-Genocide Protest, Hospitalizes One "Zionists on the streets and in police precincts have declared open season on young people fighting for Palestinian liberation," said one Columbia University student group. By Julia Conley • May 7, 2024 Congress Urged to Tax Big Oil for Price Fixing and 'Issue Every American a Refund' The Groundwork Collaborative's leader also said that "the Department of Justice should criminally prosecute Scott Sheffield," the former Pioneer CEO whom the FTC blocked from joining ExxonMobil's board. By Jessica Corbett • May 7, 2024 VIEW ALL NEWS JOIN THE MOVEMENT As a people-powered nonprofit news outlet, we cover the issues the corporate media never will. Your contribution supports this bold media model—free, independent, and dedicated to reporting the facts every day. Stand with us in the fight for economic equality, social justice, human rights, and a more sustainable future. JOIN WITH US TODAY ■ Opinion Big Oil's Un-American Scheme to Price-Gouge Consumers From ExxonMobil's long-running climate denial to Pioneer's recent price-fixing, it's clear this rogue industry's business model is deny, deceit, and delay. By Cassidy Dipaola • May 9, 2024 The Price We Pay for Bezos and Gates? Less Moral Societies The longer we let inequality define our contemporary daily lives, new research helps us understand, the more the unethical behavior all around us will seem to reflect just the way our world naturally works. By Sam Pizzigati • May 8, 2024 It's Been a Horrible Couple of Weeks and Know This: Trump Would Be Much, Much Worse Nobody is going to like the way out of this mess, because it requires the nearly impossible — mixing pragmatism with an almost hopeless idealism. By Will Bunch • May 6, 2024 Three Simple Tests to Weigh the Protesters’ Legitimacy For example: The Israeli government is murdering tens of thousands of innocent, defenseless women and children. Is that acceptable? If it is not, then the students’ protests are legitimate. By Robert Freeman • May 5, 2024 VIEW ALL OPINION Call 207.775.0488 to donate by phone or mail a check to: Common Dreams · PO Box 443 · Portland, ME 04112-0443 · USA Common Dreams is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your contribution is tax-deductible. EIN: 20-3368194