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How has Central Appalachia been shaped by its relationship to resource extraction?

In this new essay, John Pilger recalls the "electric" opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is "a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda" as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.

By David Helvarg / MongaBay / April 12, 2023 Today I’m a waterlogged Californian, but soon I’ll be baked dry as a bone. The intensity of extreme drought and rainfall has “sharply” increased over the past 20 years, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Water. Next July – ‘Hey kids, I’m…

Without dismissing the importance of other leaders in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, it is fair to say that Dorothy Day remains, at the dawn of the new millennium, the radical conscience of American Catholicism.

If the current propagandists get their war with China, this will be a fraction of what is to come.

While no threat from China exists, media propagandists are trying to ignite a war the likes of which weve never seen.

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists,

Thousands of American workers are sickened or injured on the job every day. Migrant children are being put to work in hazardous jobs, in violation of child labor laws. We can do more to protect workers, a labor executive writes.

Readers discuss best practices for when the emails pile up. Also: The future of cable news; Merrick Garland and the Jan. 6 inquiry; speech on campus.

Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.   By John Pilger In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. Th