The Guardian UK:
"When the world shut down last year, there was one big beneficiary: the planet. With travel ground to a halt, emissions fell 10% in 2020. But we haven’t kept up the momentum – as economies reopen, carbon emissions are expected surpass pre-pandemic levels in the coming months, unless countries take urgent action. We are in an emergency. California is on the brink of drought, prompting fears of a new wave of devastating megafires later this year. Rising temperatures could soon make the planet’s tropical regions unlivable for humans. ...
Two years ago, the Guardian announced it was changing the language it uses to talk about the environment, eschewing terms like 'climate change' for the more appropriately urgent 'climate emergency'. Today, we are joined by others in the news industry, organizations that recognize that a global catastrophe is already here, and that without immediate action, it will get unimaginably worse.
These organizations are part of Covering Climate Now, an initiative founded in 2019 by Columbia Journalism Review and the Nation, with the Guardian as the lead partner, to address the urgent need for stronger climate coverage."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/12/covering-climate-now-guardian-climate-emergency
-->It seems like most of our corporate controlled media likes it the old way. Flowers and balloons for Earth Day, but little of the urgent need for stronger news coverage.
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Black Alliance for Peace:
"Members of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) criticized U.S. President Joe Biden's announcement Wednesday that he would pull troops from Afghanistan on September 11, 2021, thereby violating a key component of a peace agreement negotiated by the previous administration.
A September 11 withdrawal—landing on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack—reinforces the false impression that the Taliban government had something to do with the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
BAP is concerned the attempt to move the date of U.S. withdrawal past the agreed-upon May 1 deadline will give hardliners in the Biden-Harris administration the opportunity to create the conditions for continued U.S. occupation of Afghanistan by baiting the Taliban into renewed attacks. ... BAP has detailed how powerful forces within the administration and among the foreign policy elite are trying to find ways to keep a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan to support broader geostrategic objectives, primarily countering Chinese influence."
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/911withdrawal
-->The US media including the NYT have little incentive to look beneath the surface of Biden's military plans. The few media outlets left in the US are all corporate controlled, and they rarely criticize US warmongering or the boated Pentagon budget.
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Common Dreams:
"In the wake of President Joe Biden's announcement that he plans to withdraw all regular U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan by this year's anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, experts at the Costs of War Project on Friday released an update on what nearly two decades of war has cost in both dollars and human lives.
An estimated 241,000 people have died as a direct result of the war, and the United States has spent $2.26 trillion on military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 2001 U.S. invasion, according to the project, housed at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
'These horrific numbers are testament to the costs of war, first to the Afghan people, and then to the soldiers and people of the United States,' said project co-director and Brown University professor Catherine Lutz in a statement. 'Ending the war as soon as possible is the only rational and humane thing to do.'
-->Take a look at NPR's coverage of Nicaragua and Venezuela recently if you need more proof that our mainstream media is busy drumming up support for new US military adventures. Yet coverage of US controlled Honduras or Haiti is nowhere to be found.
