Why Capitalism is Addicted to Oil and Coal

Martin Empson Climate & Capitalism
"FOSSIL CAPITAL" The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, Verso Books, 2016 By Andreas Malm. Reviewed by Martin Empson

Trump's Vegas Hotel Refuses To Recognize Its Workers' Union

Alice Ollstein ThinkProgress
Last year, the hotel violated federal labor law by suspending five workers for wearing union buttons and talking to their coworkers about the union drive. They were eventually reinstated with back pay. The union also filed an official complaint accusing Trump management of "incidents of alleged physical assault, verbal abuse, intimidation, and threats."

Knowledge

Tony Gloeggler The Ledge and Cultural Weekly
In this bittersweet poem, Tony Gloeggler, a New York City poet, draws on his experience working with developmentally disabled people to explore the tentative nature of relationships.

The Paris Climate Accord and Our Renewable Future

Michael T. Klare TomDispatch
2015 can be viewed as the year in which the epochal transition from one set of fuels to another took off, with renewables making such significant strides that, for the first time in centuries, the beginning of the end of the Fossil Fuel Era has come into sight. This shift will take place no matter how well or poorly the deal just achieved at the U.N. climate summit in Paris is carried out.

Lee Circle No More: New Orleans to Remove Four Confederate Statues

Richard Rainey The Times-Picayune/The Advocate
"The time surely comes when (justice) must and will be heard," Mayor Mitch Landrieu told the council as he called for the statues to be put in a museum or a Civil War park. "Members of the council, that day is today. The Confederacy, you see, was on the wrong side of history and humanity."

The Quantum Republican Universe

Tom Tomorrow
In this strange domain, reality is extremely malleable. The laws of cause and effect no longer apply.

Bernie Sanders Bags Key Endorsements, Gets Sandbagged by the DNC

CJ Ciaramella, Tamerra Griffin, John Nichols, Sarah Lazaze BuzzFeed
Bernie Sanders' Presidential campaign posted some big wins this week with endorsements by a major national union and a liberal activist group. But tensions with the Democratic National Committee exploded into a crisis, as the DNC hobbled the campaign by blocking access to voter and donor data, and the Sanders campaign hit back with a federal lawsuit.

Movie: Where to Invade Next

Another Michael Moore movie that belongs to no known genre. America's secret weapon prepares to invade countries whose names he can hardly pronounce and bring the treasure he plunders back home. Opens in New York and Los Angeles on Dec 23.

Girls Who Code Aims to Disrupt

In middle school, 74% of girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), but when choosing a college major, just 0.4% of high school girls select computer science. GirlsWhoCode is out to change that.