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The Tocsin 8/14

#Seebrücke Documents & Texts: Causes Of Fleeing - A Global Perspective On Climate & Migration More Letters From Eco Activist In German Jail For Protecting Forest From RWE Germany: SPD Crumbling As Repressive Pro-Detention Camp "Left Caucus Of CDU" Donald Trump Cuddles Up To Far-Right Antisemite Viktor Orban The NSA’s Role In A Climate-Changed World: Spying On Nonprofits, North Pole The Disappearance Of The Aral Sea Is An Ecological Tragedy – So Why Is Tourism Booming? Monsanto's Fraudulent Attempt To Overturn Cancer Ruling Won't Succeed - Experts The Hope Of Alterglobalist Ecosocialism: "A Crisis Not Of Nature But Of Society" Labour Prepares For Sellout On IHRA Code With Few Caviets Corbyn Wreath Attack Narrative Collapsing Even As Labour Gains In Polls McDonnell: Forget The Smears, Fight For No. 10 - The Poor Are Getting Poorer. How The Thatcherites Sold BP - And How An Arab State Almost Got Control PODCAST: Setting...

The Tocsin 7/31

Continuing The Fight Against ICE After Eviction Of Protest Camps Against Racist Policies   #AllOutAugust: Why It's Important That Month Long Tour Of Racist Alt Right Rallies Flops     Facebook, No Unite The Right 2 DC, And McCarthyite "Bad Actors" Smear  A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused In An Immigrant-Detention Center   Reunited With Their Kids, Immigrant Mothers Find Themselves In A Strange, Unforgiving Land Migrants' Return To Libya By Italian Boat Could Breach International Law – UN   Migrant Rescue Ship Aquarius Returns To Sea After Italy-Malta Dispute     Italian Government Roiled By Internal Dispute Over Racist Salvini Rhetoric   Never Lose Sight Of Humanity: Dare To Dream Of A World Without Borders First Asylum-Seeker "Controlled Detention" Center Opens in Germany   Protest In Munich Against Attacks On Refugees, Poverty And War     Australian Governments Illegally Sailed Re...

The Tocsin 7/26

ICE Still Holds Thousands Of Children In Their Captivity As Family Reunification Deadline Passes ICE Coerced Dozens Of Immigrant Parents To Give Up Their Kids, ACLU Says ICE Detainee Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Spent 21 Days In Solitary Confinement, Then Took His Own Life UN REPORT: 1,500 Refugees Have Died In Mediterranean in 2018, Italy Deadliest Route Italy: Police Forcibly Clear Huge Roma Camp, Salvini Hails "Law And Order" Ismail Khawari, 26-Year-Old Migrant Elin Ersson Protected, Has Now Been Deported. Germany's New Culture Wars: Artists, Theatres Face Off Against Anti-Refugee AfD As It Threatens To Cut Their Funding, End Reign Of "68ers" The International Movement Of Human Beings And The Racist Backlash The Extreme Right Radicalised The US Public. Now They're Doing The Same To The FBI. PODCAST: Paul Mason On How To Defeat The Rising Fascism In Europe And The US EU-US Soybean Deal Means GMOs Will Be Pouring Into Europe Wi...

The Tocsin 7/25

Swedish Woman Shows Quiet Power Of Civil Disobedience As She Blocks A Deportation Swedish Plane Protester Elin Ersson: ‘I Knew I Couldn't Back Down – I Had To Do What I Could' VIDEO: Watch The Direct Action Against Deportation Attacks On Kurds In A Greek Camp Shows Conflict In Syria Has Followed Refugees Abroad Germany’s Bloody Secret: Politicians & Arms Producers Cozy Up, Sell Weapons To Anyone The New Balkan Route: Refugees Flee Frontex Authorities With Solidarity Aid Left-Wing Groups Help Pick Up Pieces Of Athens Climate Disaster - Death Toll Rises Greece: Gang Of 20 Nazi Goons Attack Refugees With Poles - Two Hospitalised The Realities Of The Mental Health Crisis For Refugees On Greece’s Samos Island #AffaireBenalla: Channelling Trump, Macron Says Media ‘No Longer Seeks Truth’ Macron Aide: French Police Raid Disgraced Benalla's Office Emmanuel Macron Blurts Out: Alexandre Benalla Is Not My Lover." Uh? How to Get Involved with...

Jordan Peterson Is A Climate Denialist. Why Is He Treated As An Intellectual?

This is hardly the first or last article to come out this week- let alone this month or year- about the right-wing "classical liberal" who has been variously described as "the world's most influential public intellectual," the voice of a reborn conservatism, or a racist mythmaker. It is, however, I believe the first to be focused on a topic that rarely- if ever- receives attention as point of contention among "intellectuals." Jordan Peterson is, put simply, a denier of climate change. Going against the grain of 97 percent of scientists who have studied the matter, he has expressed the opinion that there has been "no warming over the past decade," and that "the planet appears to be cooling," truly unbelievable statements that any educated person should be frankly ashamed of believing. Peterson has pushed the ludicrous claim that "human emissions of carbon dioxide have saved life on Earth from inevitable starvation ...

The Tocsin 7/2

End Of The ICE Age As Over 700 Protests & Occupations Sweep USA, Activists Fight Cops #MeltICE: Antifa Groups & Leftists Beat Back Fascist Riot In Portland Aligned With Cops #CrushICE: A Look Inside The #OccupyICE Camps & Communes And Their Struggle #AbolishICE: 600 Anti-ICE Feminists Arrested En Masse In DC NYC Cops Steal Palestinian Flags From Anti-ICE Protest Groups The Failure Of Liberals And Their Collaboration With Police- An Essay Charlottesville Right-Wing Extremists Plot Rally Outside White House EU Gives Stamp Of Approval To Frontex State Terrorist Campaign Against Refugees "Controlled Centres" - Migrants To Be Directed To African Concentration Camps.... NGO Ships Detained Without Explanation As Hundreds Drown Rightwing Smears Of NGOs As "Human Traffickers" Has No Basis In Reality Varoufakis: European Leaders Dancing To Salvini's Racist Tunes Germany: Socialist And Communist Groups Protest AfD Anti-Refu...