In Umm al-Khair, the occupation is damning us to multigenerational trauma

Awdah Hathaleen

July 22, 2024

The demolition forces enter the village. All the children run to their mothers, who scramble to salvage whatever they can from their homes before it’s too late. Everyone watches on anxiously to see who will be made homeless today. The bulldozers gather in the center of the village and then stop. Soldiers disembark. The villagers look each other in the eye, searching for words of comfort, but there are none. Our children ask us why this is happening, but we have no answers.

Feeling the heat: capitalism and global warming

MartinHart-Landsberg

July 22, 2024

We are in real trouble. Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023. Last year was also the hottest in recorded history and, year by year, more Americans are feeling the consequences. Yet, we have seen only modest attempts to bring emissions down.

 

 Heat waves: Increasingly common, ever more deadly. (Photo: journalistsresource.org)