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Tales of infants and young children dying because they can’t get enough to eat and distraught parents robbed of their dignity because they can do nothing for their kids (or themselves) are too numerous and ghastly to detail here. But just for a moment imagine that all of this was happening to your loved ones. -- Andrea Mazzarino, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse?, TomDispatch, July 7, 2024

California and Tribal Partners Secure Critical Water Supply to Support Native American Farmers
Published: Jun 11, 2024
DWR staff and members of the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe commemorate the water transfer agreement.
State Expedites Water Transfers to Meet Both Long- and Short-Term Needs

There is probably no one writing in English better situated, after years studying the pipelines of Central Asia from his base in Hong Kong, than Pepe Escobar, to report on the rise of multi-polar opposition to hegemony, in large part due to American denial that the most important story in the world is happening at all. -- blj

5-25-24
Unz Reader (originally in Strategic Culture Foundation)
Russia and China Have Had Enough
Both have had enough of being “polite”. You want confrontation? Confrontation is what you’re gonna get.
PEPE ESCOBAR

Science and technology brought us global warming. It remains as arrogant as always. How could it possibly find any solutions? -- wmh