Tag Archives: climate change
Extinction Rebellion: Worldwide, the First Day
“We only get one planet and so we’re here to try and defend it.”
You’ve Got to See These Inspiring Photos to Understand the Scale of Today’s Global Climate Strikes, Mother Jones
We Are All Connected!
Fear vs. Fear, by Chris Hedges
We will save ourselves only by pitting power against power. We will save ourselves by building mass movements to overthrow corporate power.
As Cost of Climate Crisis Grows, Climate Movement Escalates
“We cannot be radical enough in dealing with the issues that face us at the moment. The question is: what is practically possible? How can we take the electorate with us in dealing with these things?” in testimony to British lawmakers this week, famed scientist and environmental advocate Sir David Attenborough said,
Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange and more
Why should the United States have the power to control what others are doing elsewhere in the world? I mean, it’s an outlandish situation. It goes on all the time. We never even notice it. At least there’s no comment on it. On April 12, 2019, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church […]
The Antiwar Movement No One Can See: Will It Put a Crimp in the War on Terror? By Allegra Harpootlian
What if there’s an antiwar movement growing right under our noses and we just haven’t noticed?
Elizabeth Warren’s Green Imperialism Isn’t the Answer
The plan rightly acknowledges that America’s armed forces use a downright obscene amount of energy. (According to Common Dreams, “The Pentagon’s carbon footprint is 70 percent of total U.S. emissions …
The world’s happiest people already have a Green New Deal, and they love it, by George Lakey
The Nordics [are] in the top tier of nations for equality because they adopted a radically different economic model…
Suicide Watch on Planet Earth: As the Flames Began to Rise, the Arsonists Appeared
Collusion — hell, yeah! Putting the Planet on a Suicide Watch
Chris Hedges: Only the Struggle Matters
The Black Bloc in France, as in the United States, is a gift to the security and surveillance apparatus.
Green New Deal Advocates Should Address Militarism, by Medea Benjamin – Alice Slater
Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure? Environmentalists need to contest the Pentagon’s staggering global footprint. The US military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and the largest source of greenhouse gasses, contributing about 5 percent of global warming emissions.
The Intercept: Climate Crisis with Naomi Klein and others, Live Town Hall
Naomi Klein: The “Green New Deal” is not a piecemeal approach that trains a water gun on a blazing fire, but a comprehensive plan to transform society for the better.
Noam Chomsky: Trump and His Enablers Are ‘Criminally Insane’
In a new interview with Scientific American, the celebrated linguist and political theorist opines on a range of topics including classical liberalism, Trump’s presidency and his own vision of a better world. He also further clarifies why he considers the Republican Party to be “the most dangerous organization in human history.” By Jacob Sugarman Truthdig TD ORIGINALS November […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, History, Memory, and Donald Trump
Still, don’t for a second imagine that Donald Trump won’t be remembered. He will — into the distant future in a way that no other American president is likely to be.
A Foreign Policy That Can Change Everything for Everyone
War is the weaponization of discrimination, classism and misogyny. So why are so few women talking about it?
The Media Never Mention the No. 1 Cause of Climate Change, by Lee Camp
Our illogical, immoral meat consumption will kill our planet, kill our future and possibly kill your family.
Tomgram: Making Sense of America’s Empire of Chaos
Donald Trump would have been inconceivable as president without those disastrous wars, those trillions squandered on them and on the military that’s fought them, and that certainly qualifies as “impact” enough.
Tim DeChristopher | In the Face of Climate Crisis, Let’s Make 2018 a Year for Realism
“What I know about living is that the pain is never just ours.” Andrea Gibson
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