A link to one of two links to the same emergency exclamation (!!) from Tom Engelhardt Substack via Informed Comment; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names. Also, some context from x-ma911truthwalk.com. (Scroll up for today’s IRAN, UKRAINE and ALL OF IT, and down for MEDIA 8-12-26.) — MCM
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FROM AUG. 13 A planet screaming at us to pay attention, by Tom Engelhardt | Tom Engelhardt Substack / Informed Comment Climate change is at best a secondary, if not a tertiary matter in the all-American news media (including the New York Times). The British Guardian online has a genuine “climate crisis” section where you can normally check daily on the latest news about this overheating planet. READ MORE . . .
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A few words, by Mark Channing Miller | x-ma911truthwalk.com Lying liars lie. This often happens simply through what they leave out.
One reason I had enough skills to put together this website is that I was lucky enough to work for six months for Tom Stokes, who had started a website for something called the Climate Crisis Coalition. In 2005 he figured someone who had worked for two wire services and some daily newspapers would come in handy.
He was right. Working in a little office for four or five hours a day, in the company of Tom’s dog, putting little headlines over single paragraphs introducing article we found by ourselves and others from “aggregators” whose services the CCC paid for, and getting a daily collection of it out — was more like bliss than work.
Especially when the New Yorker started running Elizabeth Kolbert’s series that became the book Field Notes from a Catastrophe and shamed the wretched excuse for a news media to start paying more attention to global warming — but not enough attention.
The book was easily as important and needed as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had been decades before, perhaps more so, and started something going but not enough because, you know, some advertisers might object.
At any rate, an incentive for getting Bruce Henry and me walking across Massachusetts with our “9/11 TRUTH” signs was that lying liars lied about so much of the mass-murder attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — this website began a few weeks before the walk.
And a big incentive for me to do this is that the stupid wars the U.S. government wades this country into — most of which are a direct result of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror that the same U.S. government has lied about apart from elements of its own narrative — take needed attention away from the global heating that is now obviously under way.
