Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
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
Bill Hatch, May 2024
“I am haunted by waters.” – Norman Maclean
“We have to keep vision in place along with practical reflections.” -- Cornel West.
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
5-11-24
CalMatters
Newsom finally aligns with Legislature’s gloomier budget outlook, blaming ‘massive volatility’
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BY DAN WALTERS
When Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a 2024-25 state budget in January, he declared that the state faced a $38 billion deficit and chided journalists for citing wider projections in the gap between income and outgo from the Legislature’s budget analyst.
Science and technology brought us global warming. It remains as arrogant as always. How could it possibly find any solutions? -- wmh
Israel has turned into nothing but a genocidal real estate deal.
A tweet from ancient Rome: Pecuniae obediunt omnia. (It's all about the money.)
11-7-23
Al Jazeera
Protesters block US military ship allegedly carrying weapons for Israel
The demonstrations in Tacoma, Washington, are the second to greet the supply ship, after similar protests in California.
By Hilary Beaumont
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/7/protesters-block-us-military-sh...
10-25-23
ABC News/AP
Fire, other ravages jeopardize California’s prized forests
Forest in California may be disappearing
ByBRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
KYBURZ, Calif. -- On a steep mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in 2021, blackened trees stand in silhouette against a gray sky.
"Ten years ago this was a wonderful valley with one-quarter of a million acres of fruit and alfalfa. But Los Angeles had to have more water for the Chamber of Commerce to drink more toasts to its growth, more water to dilute its orange juice and more water for its geraniums to delight the tourists, while the giant cottonwoods here died. So now this is a valley of desolation."