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The greatest potential for conflict over battery metals may not be in Asia, Africa or the Americas, write Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox. It may not be on any continent at all.  By Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox  TomDispatch.com Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which b

Along with the harm caused by its outsized greenhouse gas emissions and its exploitation of climate chaos as an excuse for imperialism, the Pentagon wreaks terrible damage by soaking up trillions of dollars in government funds that should have gone to meet all-too-human needs, mitigate climate change, and repair the ecological damage the Pentagon itself has caused in its wars and other activities in this century.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Here’s the curious thing: since at least the Vietnam War era of the 1960s and early 1970s, the United States has - William J. Astore for Antiwar.com Original

This ecologically irrational system is very lucrative for agribusinesses that supply equipment and inputs to produce the big crop surpluses and big emissions. These businesses are now offering to create yet another profitable industry, one that will, ostensibly, clean up after the ethanol plants that were built to help sop up the grain surplus resulting from the industrialization of farming. 

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

The group Indiana Landmarks advised nine locations around the state that could use extra funding, including two in Fort Wayne.

Two Fort Wayne sites are receiving restoration and rehabilitation assistance after being recognized as significant to Indiana’s African American history.

St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Gary is among nine sites significant to Indiana’s African American history that have been awarded restoration and rehabilitation assistance.

We must decide which fossil-fueled services are essential, and we must drastically curtail all other fossil-fueled services immediately.