Deindustrialization, Depopulation, and the Refugee Crisis
Originally posted on Working-Class Perspectives:
The refugee crisis facing Western nations has begun to peak both demographically and politically. The United Nations has reported that more than 6.5 million Syrians…
Chris Hedges: Apocalyptic Capitalism
The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than … Continue reading
The Vegan Kitchen: Our Philosophy — No Fakin’ Bacon in our House!
In the coming weeks, we’ll be posting a number of recipes for dishes we regularly prepare in our home kitchen. Just to be clear, here are a few of the … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: American media trivializes Paris climate talks
Mainstream media trivializes Paris climate talks by focusing on Obama’s legacy Have you noticed that most mainstream news media coverage of the climate change summit in France stresses that any … Continue reading
William Grover, Joseph Peschek: Clinton, Sanders and the National Security Credo
Sanders’ surprisingly strong campaign is rooted in his economic populist challenge to neoliberalism and his call for a political revolution… but Sanders must go further. Responses to the November 13 … Continue reading
Video: The Silent Friends
The abiding bond between people and trees is celebrated in this cinematic ode produced by the Spanish filmmaking company Kauri. The Big Banyan Tree is considered to be one of … Continue reading
Video: Why Climate Change is a threat to Human Rights — Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (née Bourke; Irish: Máire Bean Mhic Róibín; born 21 May 1944 in Ballina, County Mayo) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: On the Verge of the Great Unraveling
The figures are staggering. In what looks like a vast population transfer from a disintegrating Greater Middle East, nearly 200,000 refugees passed through Austria in September alone. About half a … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism
Sheldon Wolin, our most important contemporary political theorist, died Oct. 21 at the age of 93. In his books “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism” and … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Nothing to See Here
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media. I’ve often wondered how the media would respond when … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Death by Fracking
DENVER—The maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is fracking. One day, courtesy of corporations such as … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: How Humans Benefit from Stressed Plants
Plants live the ultimate sedentary lifestyle—most of us usually think of plants more as objects than as organisms. Because plants can’t move, they’ve had to evolve a whole other way … Continue reading
Michael T. Klare: Welcome to a New Planet
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on … Continue reading
Dan Cobb: Documents prove Big Oil, Big Coal have known and lied about global warming for decades
Hundreds of pages of recovered documents show that even with detailed knowledge of the link between carbon emissions and climate change, the fossil fuels industry has lied for decades and … Continue reading
