Stan Cox
@coxstan.bsky.social
'Losing Our Cool' / 'The Green New Deal & Beyond' / 'The Path to a Livable Future' / 'How the World Breaks' TomDispatch.com/authors/stan-cox/
That must change for both issues. But the Palestinian people, whose clock is ticking faster and faster toward midnight, need us to stand up *right now* 7/7
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Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change
Unprecedented numbers of heat records have been broken in locations throughout the Northern Hemisphere this summer, and even more records will fall in coming years. Meanwhile, Israel’s mass slaughter ...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
That must change for both issues. But the Palestinian people, whose clock is ticking faster and faster toward midnight, need us to stand up *right now* 7/7
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/17/b...
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With a government guilty of perpetrating and sustaining two of the most heinous injustices on this planet, still, only a small portion of our civil society is standing up or acting up against either the genocide or global warming. 6/7
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
With a government guilty of perpetrating and sustaining two of the most heinous injustices on this planet, still, only a small portion of our civil society is standing up or acting up against either the genocide or global warming. 6/7
The United States has generated more of the fossil carbon currently in the atmosphere than has any other. And we have provided the bulk of material, logistical, and political support that made Israel’s genocide in Gaza possible. 5/7
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The United States has generated more of the fossil carbon currently in the atmosphere than has any other. And we have provided the bulk of material, logistical, and political support that made Israel’s genocide in Gaza possible. 5/7
… and the burning moral obligation to our fellow human beings in Gaza is so crystal clear, that for now, forcing Israel to stop the genocide must take priority over pushing for climate mitigation. 5/7
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
… and the burning moral obligation to our fellow human beings in Gaza is so crystal clear, that for now, forcing Israel to stop the genocide must take priority over pushing for climate mitigation. 5/7
The odds are heavily stacked against any of those things happening, but Israeli leaders have dialed their torture of the Palestinian people up so high, the urgency to stop them is so extreme, the means of stopping them are so straightforward, … 4/7
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The odds are heavily stacked against any of those things happening, but Israeli leaders have dialed their torture of the Palestinian people up so high, the urgency to stop them is so extreme, the means of stopping them are so straightforward, … 4/7
Israel’s genocide, in contrast, could be broken at any time if we can stop Washington’s arms shipments to Israel and push for a hard crackdown that includes suffocating diplomatic and economic sanctions. 3/7
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Israel’s genocide, in contrast, could be broken at any time if we can stop Washington’s arms shipments to Israel and push for a hard crackdown that includes suffocating diplomatic and economic sanctions. 3/7
To slow global warming will require deep reductions in energy and material throughput over many years in this country and throughout the Global North. 2/7
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
To slow global warming will require deep reductions in energy and material throughput over many years in this country and throughout the Global North. 2/7
Ditto for @degrowthinfo.bsky.social degrowth.info/en/blog/nati...
"We view Palestinian resistance, and its renewed demand for national liberation, as a profound threat to the status quo and an indispensable step towards our collective liberation."
"We view Palestinian resistance, and its renewed demand for national liberation, as a profound threat to the status quo and an indispensable step towards our collective liberation."
National liberation in Palestine is an indispensable step towards degrowth
Writing from the encampment for Palestine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Charles Stevenson, Feroz Khan, and Inea Lehner argue that Palestinian liberation must be seen as central to a degro...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ditto for @degrowthinfo.bsky.social degrowth.info/en/blog/nati...
"We view Palestinian resistance, and its renewed demand for national liberation, as a profound threat to the status quo and an indispensable step towards our collective liberation."
"We view Palestinian resistance, and its renewed demand for national liberation, as a profound threat to the status quo and an indispensable step towards our collective liberation."
… US students also refuse to abandon the struggle for Palestine’s liberation, while their universities casually torch students’ freedom of speech and sacrifice their own academic integrity as they kowtow to the regime www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/08/t... 4/4
Their Campuses Bombed to Rubble, Gaza’s Universities Are Standing Tall
The contrast could not be starker. Even with their campuses destroyed by US-supplied aircraft dropping US-supplied bombs, Gaza’s universities are
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June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
… US students also refuse to abandon the struggle for Palestine’s liberation, while their universities casually torch students’ freedom of speech and sacrifice their own academic integrity as they kowtow to the regime www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/08/t... 4/4
Fatima Shaik, an architecture student at the Islamic University of Gaza told The Intercept, “We resist not only with weapons but with knowledge, persistence, and resilience… We’ve become an inspiration to students who feel hopeless for reasons far less than war.” Meanwhile… 3/4
June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Fatima Shaik, an architecture student at the Islamic University of Gaza told The Intercept, “We resist not only with weapons but with knowledge, persistence, and resilience… We’ve become an inspiration to students who feel hopeless for reasons far less than war.” Meanwhile… 3/4
. . . US universities, politically harassed and threatened with loss of federal funding, are asking the Trump regime, “Please tell us what we can do for you to convince you to keep sending us money?” 2/4
June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
. . . US universities, politically harassed and threatened with loss of federal funding, are asking the Trump regime, “Please tell us what we can do for you to convince you to keep sending us money?” 2/4