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Superman could leap a tall building in a single bound. That ain’t nothing compared to Josh Fox. Fox created the anti-fracking movement in a single movie, Gasland.
Until Josh showed up in Pennsylvania with a little point-and-shoot camera, no one knew what the hell hydraulic fracturing was. Then Fox filmed a neighbor lighting up the tap water with a match.
In his new film, The Welcome Table, which is having its premiere run on HBO right now, Fox has traded in his point-and-shoot with lush cinematography on five — count them: five! — continents. (Makes you wonder what you’re doing with your own life.)
But it ain’t some travelogue for the Discovery Channel. Fox has brilliantly, astonishingly, melded the burning issues of immigration and climate change. Even if you just think global warming is a bunch of hot air (pun intended), this documentary will just knock you out.
Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate co-sponsored a resolution supporting “a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
But today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion.
For politicians, it has become a box to check. According to data from the American Jewish Congress, every Democrat and most Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee currently say they support “the two-state solution.”
Whatever the rhetoric, ending Israeli control over Palestinians in the territories occupied since 1967 is not on the table.
Our GREEP #273 begins with world citizen ARTHUR KANEGIS and his fantastic film about the legendary Gary Davis who invented his own passport to travel the world as a man without a country.
We then join four great election protection activists—KEN BENNETT, JOHN BRAKEY, ALISON GREENE, RAY LUTZ——to cover the vast uncharted territory that is our upcoming 2026 voting.
Vote by mail, digital scanning, the grassroots reality in Arizona, drop boxes and the disenfranchisement of women are at the core of this amazing discussion.
From MITCHELL JONES of Food & Water Watch we take a deep dive into the Earth shaking mass movement against AI / data centers and how the public may actually win.
GREEP engineer STEVE CARUSO reports from the ground on the data center fight in central Ohio.
Co-host MYLA RESON joins DOROTHY REIK, and the exceptional GEORGE ANDERSON to dissect the broad AI/Data Center issue, including a first-hand report on how “very stupid” AI can be.
Green power pioneer KARL GROSSMAN warns of the insanity of Donald Trump running the regulation of nuclear power, in which he is personally invested.
“These are not social Dumocrats, these are hardcore, godless communists.” And they will “attack all religions, but in particular, Christianity. They always do. . . .
“It's like crazy. They will close your churches in this country. . . . They will kill your people and that's what they're about. They want to end religion. They have to end religion because their ideology doesn't work if you have strong religion. . . . This is the greatest threat to our country since its founding, in my opinion, 250 years ago, what's happening right now.”
This is our Dear Leader speaking, of course, ripping our seriously problematic political system to shreds and turning it into a cult, with Donald Trump as the cult leader, of course. Only he can save us, and by “us” I mean real Americans: the true believers in virtually nothing except what they’re told to believe, also known as MAGA,
An Israeli airstrike before dawn Wednesday destroyed a residential building in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killing 33-year-old Omar Sami Abu Qasem, his wife, Asma, and their 6-year-old daughter, Habiba. Their 3-year-old son, Sami, survived with injuries while sleeping in his mother's arms. Local health officials and witnesses described the building as a civilian residence. An Israeli military spokesperson had not commented at the time of publication.
Sami Abu Qasem is now an orphan, joining what humanitarian organizations say are tens of thousands of children in Gaza who have lost one or both parents since the war began. He was the sole survivor of his immediate family. According to reports, rescuers found him crawling from the rubble as flames engulfed what remained of his home.
To many Palestinians, Sami's story symbolizes the devastating human cost of the war. They ask what future awaits a child who has lost his entire family and question how such tragedies shape the next generation.
I – There is an option to fossil fuels
Ezra Klein considers the very good and the very bad news on climate crisis:
(https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-bill-mckibben.html).
“Here’s the good news: Green energy is getting better and cheaper, faster than we had ever dared hope.”
“In April, the energy think tank Ember found that all of the new electricity demand around the world in 2025 was met with green power. That is wild.” Klein quotes Bill McKibben. “The stuff that we spent my whole lifetime calling alternative energy from the sun and the wind is now the obvious, common sense, straightforward way to produce power. Sometime earlier this decade, we passed some invisible line where it became cheaper to produce energy from the sun and the wind than from setting stuff on fire.”
McKibben –
There are some not so subtle signs that our billionaire tech overlords are starting to come to grips with their overreach and loose lips in speculating about the good and bad of artificial intelligence. Communities across the country – and the world – have marshalled to pushback on such purpose-built data centers, whether effective or not, stretching from urban centers to farmlands. Big mouths like OpenAI’s Sam Altman who have prophesized huge job losses to AI that might require living wage subsidies for the disappearance of work are now quickly stepping back from such predictions, as they see the skepticism growing among the public about these AI claims. Politicians who listen to their constituents are beginning to moderate their boosterism in state legislatures and Congress. This too may pass, but it’s a sign that the gazillion dollar race among private big tech companies along with the global competition between nation states as large as the US and China, has turned opinion dark on AI.