by Eman Abu Zayed | Jul 24, 2026 | environmental crisis, Gaza, medical waste, News Analysis, Palestine, Pollution, sanitation, Toxic Waste, Waste Management
Just a few hundred meters from Al-Ma’madani Hospital in the center of Gaza City lies Firas Market, which has turned into a site for heaps of mixed garbage as medical waste accumulates alongside household trash, commercial trash, and rubble remnants. The piles stretch across the market and between buildings, suffocating the city with choking odors and rising dust, right next to passersby and…
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by Paul Messersmith-Glavin | Jun 5, 2026 | AI, big tech, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Data Center, data centers, Donald Trump, Indigenous Activism, Indigenous Resistance, MAGA, News Analysis, Organizing, Resistance, Toxic Waste
Between 4,000 and 5,000 data centers are actively humming in the U.S. right now, draining energy and, in the case of some of the hyperscale ones, consuming as much as 5 million gallons of water per day. Even this does not satisfy the demand cultivated by the tech industry, however: At least 3,000 more data centers are under construction or planned, prompting a diverse grassroots mobilization…
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