‘No Child of God Should Suffer Such Harms’
Donald Trump reverses “America First” policy with military assault on Syria after seeing children killed in a chemical attack. Meanwhile, he seeks to cut more than $50 Billion from foreign […]
Category Archives: u.s.
Border Wall RFP Released: Impenetrable … Beautiful?
Solicitation Number: 2017-JC-RT-0001 issued by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, February 24, 2017. See additional details, such as above possible schematic, at Virtual Builder’s Alliance. From CNN Wire: U.S. […]
Victoria Texas Mosque Fire Ruled Arson
Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune Investigators said Wednesday that someone intentionally set the fire that destroyed a mosque two weeks ago in Victoria, the South Texas town that has since rallied […]
Fracking, Mining, Damming: ‘Homemade’ Quakes Increasing
[EDITOR’S NOTE: As clear and vital as the following article is, it avoids entirely a sleeping giant of human-caused earthquake risk: climate change. If you’re interested in how our industrially […]
West Texas Hole May Meet 5K Tons of Radioactive Fuel
By Kiah Collier/Texas Tribune A controversial radioactive waste dump in far West Texas is one step closer to being able to accept high-level nuclear waste. A controversial radioactive waste dump […]
Resisting Trump Order at SA International
Part of a gathering movement in San Antonio, Texas, and reflective of actions taking place across the country and around the world, a group of roughly 40 area residents occupied […]
Protectors: We Want Parks, Not Pipelines (VIDEO)
Calls for ETP CEO Kelcy Warren to resign Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission seat fill chamber. The “pipeline cowboy,” as Bloomberg News describes Energy Transfer Partners’ CEO Kelcy Warren, should […]
White House Pipeline Push a War on Treaty Rights, Climate
Trump claims Keystone XL represents 28,000 jobs, multiplying most likely impact by 10 times, in latest ‘alternative fact’ peddled to American people President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders […]
‘Ominous’: Trump Hotel in DC Bans Journalists During Inauguration Week
Lease agreement with U.S. General Services Administration prohibits closing access. The Trump International Hotel in Washington has banned the press from its premises for inauguration week, Politico reports Wednesday. Politico […]
Can Facebook Create an Algorithm to Defuse Voter Anger?
Zuckerberg’s problem is more complicated than fake news R. Kelly Garrett In the wake of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, many questions have been raised about Facebook’s role in the promotion […]
Agent Orange: Major Dump of Toxic Mission, Tx-Related Docs
Consistently, one of the most trafficked pages on Deceleration is a reprint of an article I wrote about the poisoning of the people of Gulfport, Miss., by Agent Orange chemicals […]
Climate Deniers are Not Little Galileos. Here’s Why.
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How is it measured and what it means. Ray Weymann/Central Coast Climate Science It is frequently said that “97 percent of climate scientists agree […]
Game Over? Nobel Laureates Decry Climate Denial Agenda
Tabulating the amount of carbon stored in the Canadian tar sands, retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen said the burning of that tarry storehouse while continuing a business-as-usual petroleum-powered agenda […]
The White Nationalist Who Came to Dinner
He was groomed from childhood to one day be a key leader in the white nationalist movement. Then, after being outed at his liberal arts college as a racist streaming-radio […]
Bamboozled: A cure for Trump’s snake oil
Smooth-talking con artists are familiar figures in American folklore. The well-dressed hustler arrives in an unsuspecting town. He pitches some miracle cure or get-rich-quick scheme, door-to-door or from atop a […]
Where Will the (New) Border Walls Go?
The last round of border wall construction passed through Texas nearly a decade ago following the 2006 Secure Fence Act, with steel barriers being cut through nature preserves and private […]
Corpus Christi’s Water Ban Linked to Valero Contamination
More than 300,000 residents to avoid all contact with city water. Corpus Christi officials have identified a chemical that is suspected to have leaked into the Texan city’s tap water […]
Earth to Trump: Americans Still Want Climate Action
The incoming Trump administration may be packed to the gills with those who deny the fact or relevance of climate change—with Trump himself repeatedly tweeting that global warming is a […]
New DOE spill response: “Oops!”
Rick Perry, former governor of Texas, two-time presidential candidate, and one-time Dancing With the Stars contestant, is reportedly President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Energy — an […]
Standing Rock’s Civil Disobedience Reaches West Texas
“It’s the Rio Grande. It’s sacred to many people.” Shortly after 4am on Monday, a small caravan of cars pulled up in front of a pipe yard on the west […]
Reconciliation at the Heart of Standing Rock
The message of Standing Rock has been broadcast to the world through the majority of media dispatches as one of contention and struggle, of privatized security forces doing battle with […]
A ‘Plan B’ President Chosen for a ‘Plan A’ War
F. William Engdahl, Via New Eastern Outlook The project called the Trump Presidency has just two months before its formal beginning. Yet already the hopes and fantasies of much of […]
Standing Rock and Human Rights
The story of Standing Rock’s resistance is one punctured over and again by overwhelming displays of state violence. This week brings perhaps the most vicious, as police and private security […]
Defend Big Bend: Indigenous Resistance to Texas Trans-Pecos Pipeline Growing
On Sunday, November 20, members of Defend Big Bend, the Society of Native Nations, and several tribal groups, marched from the Marfa Mystery Lights Viewing Area outside Marfa, Texas, to […]
Voices from Standing Rock, III. (VIDEO)
Representatives of an estimated 300 native tribes and nations from around the world have come to Standing Rock Indian Reservation to stand in solidarity with the Sioux Nation in their […]
Voices from Standing Rock II. (VIDEO)
Representatives of an estimated 300 native tribes and nations from around the world have come to Standing Rock Indian Reservation to stand in solidarity with the Sioux Nation in their […]
Voices from Standing Rock, I. (VIDEO)
Representatives of an estimated 300 native tribes and nations from around the world have come to Standing Rock Indian Reservation to stand in solidarity with the Sioux Nation in their […]
Pipeline Wars: Voices of Texas Water Protectors
Voices Raised at Texas Park and Wildlife’s Meeting Against Kelcy Warren, Against Dakota Access, Against Trans-Pecos, Against Comanche Trail… More than 100 self-described “water protectors” sung, chanted, and prayed for […]
Obama Says “Let It Play Out” at Standing Rock For Now
Representatives of more than 300 tribal nations and allies who have gathered at Standing Rock in North Dakota protesting the construction of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline across […]
Eavesdropping on ‘Global Weirding’
Climate Scientist, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe and KTTZ have partnered to bring you this new PBS Digital Studios series that will focus on exploring the arguments, science, religion, culture, and psychology […]
Standoff at the Lajitas Resort
Anti-pipeline action targets Kelcy Warren’s borderland hideout LAJITAS, Texas—There may have been a snarling dog in the patrol truck in the play-Western “town” of the Lajitas Golf Resort, but it […]
Controlled Burn: Fire, Pipelines & Defending Big Bend
ALPINE, Texas—There are flames rising on the highway, erupting from the bowels of an overturned semi. Black, oily smoke roils into the sky. A bearded Jehovah cradles the driver in […]
A Message from West Texas
Standing Rock: New Life to Old Struggles
The teeth marks of attack dogs and the pepper-sprayed faces of indigenous land defenders in North Dakota are fresh on the minds of dozens of dancers gathered on the stone […]
Herbal Medics to lead Standing Rock Med Clinic
San Antonio-based Herbal Medics, an outgrowth of The Human Path survival-skills school run by Sam Coffman, a former U.S. Special Forces Medic, has been tapped to develop and lead operations of […]
YMI: ‘We Leave Aside the Cliques’
The story of one that got out, came back, and changed the game. It is the story of brave young men who were able to reach beyond hopelessness, anger, and […]
