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.
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.
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 More
Putting Climate Change on Trial
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.
War is the weaponization of discrimination, classism and misogyny. So why are so few women talking about it?
Our illogical, immoral meat consumption will kill our planet, kill our future and possibly kill your family.
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.
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.
The compartmentalized mind is a colonized mind.
"What I know about living is that the pain is never just ours." Andrea Gibson
"What I know about living is that the pain is never just ours." Andrea Gibson
