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Trapped Behind the Wheel
The places we live in and how we get around are key ways in which the economy shapes our everyday lives. Each is dependent on the other. But far from moving our economy towards sustainability and...
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Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
The Project 2025 blueprint for the next Trump administration sets its sights on two crucial public institutions: libraries and higher education. Librarians show up on page 5 — targeted for their...
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Climate Accountability Under Trump: The Courts
This is Part 1 of a series in which we’ll examine what holding the fossil fuel industry accountable looks like under the incoming Trump administration. For this first piece, we’re taking a look at...
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Shell’s Legal Victory is Disappointing – But This is Not the End for...
In the first ruling of its kind, the Dutch Hague District Court in 2021 ordered a fossil fuel company, Shell, to slash its emissions. This decision would have required the oil and gas giant to cut its...
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Clean Energy Alone Can’t Save Us
“How far can the ‘right’ (the legally and collectively assured effective possibility) of each individual, of each group, of each commune, of each nation to act as it wants, extend once we know – and we...
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Suriname’s Debt Crisis Shows Us How Global Capitalism Works
Suriname is a former Dutch colony in South America, best known for the pristine Amazon forests that cover 93 percent of the country and make it one of only three countries that absorb more carbon...
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Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and the most certain to provide continuity...
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“The Worst First Week of a Cop”: Frustrations Rise as Week Two Begins
As the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan enter their second week, the theme of the first has been one of slow progress and frustration, according to many participants from Africa. Dubbed the “finance...
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Activists at U.N. Climate Talks Push Rich Countries to Pay for Green Transition
We are broadcasting live from the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, which has entered its second and final week, and already there is frustration over a lack of progress on the key issue of...
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House Again Moves to Pass “Nonprofit Killer” Bill Giving Trump “Unchecked Power”
Lawmakers in the House are once again moving to pass a dangerous bill, nicknamed the “nonprofit killer” by opponents, that would give Donald Trump and future presidents wide leeway to attack nonprofit...
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Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump
Does Trump’s reelection mean that the US labor resurgence is over? Not necessarily. It’s true that the new administration is preparing major attacks against workers and the labor movement. And many...
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Palestinians, Both Civilian and Military, Are Transcending the Horror We’ve...
In February, the public health specialist Muna Abed Alah published a paper in the journal Current Psychology titled “Shattered Hierarchy: How the Gaza Conflict Demolished Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs.”...
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Western Media: Whitewashing Israeli Genocide and Manufacturing Consent
A UN Special Committee has characterized Israel’s war in Gaza as genocide, while Western “free” media has abandoned its ethical responsibility to cover and or report objectively on the conduct of...
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Pentagon Fails Seventh Straight Audit as Annual US Military Budget Nears $1...
The Pentagon announced late last week that it failed its seventh consecutive audit as the sprawling, profiteering-ridden department wasn’t able to fully account for its trillions of dollars in assets....
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Palestinians Displaced From Northern Gaza Fear This New Nakba
The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with masses of people flooding the pitch and seating. Everyone is carrying a bag on their back and some clothes. Some are helping sick...
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Bosses’ Anti-Union Captive Audience Meetings Are Now Illegal
On Tuesday of last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that mandatory meetings in which employees are forced to listen to employer diatribes concerning their labor rights are...
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USA Tries to Pound Lebanon Into Submission
Israel has intensified its air strikes on Lebanon and in particular on Beirut, ahead of a visit on Tuesday or Wednesday by US envoy Hochstein, at which he will press Lebanon to accept a US/Israeli...
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Liberation Is Not Propaganda
In the same week known climate denialist and convicted felon Donald Trump was re-elected to the White House, Africa Energy Week took place in Cape Town. Both spin lies, half-truths, and hypocrisy,...
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Retreat from Reason: Palestine in the Time of Monsters
Our times are fraught. This is especially glaring in the Middle East as the United States wrestles to maintain its control over this rich and complicated region. Today’s ethos of convulsion is aptly...
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The Half-Trillion Dollar Public Cost of Corporate and Ultra-Wealthy Tax Dodging
A study published Tuesday estimates that tax dodging enabled by the United States, the United Kingdom, and other wealthy nations is costing countries around the world nearly half a trillion dollars in...
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