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“Behind every murder that happens in the Amazon, every killing that happens to a land defender, there is a company behind that, there is a government behind that, there is a name behind that.”
“Costa Rica and Denmark and those that have joined them in the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance are changing the game.”
Liberia’s health workers are waging a dual struggle: battling the COVID-19 pandemic on the one hand, while fighting for their rights and salaries on the other
“As much as these companies might want to massage the facts, the numbers are crystal clear—they are still supplying the majority of their doses to richer parts of the world.”
His lies, his illogical defense, and his hubris damage all professional athletes
“The climate emergency—which threatens every person on the planet into the foreseeable future—is at least as serious a threat as a global pandemic and similarly requires urgent international action.”
What’s being proposed here is what most countries with national income comparable to the U.S. already have. Are Americans so different from everyone else?
“Everything we’ve been hearing here and at the previous 25 summits is basically distraction,” says Monbiot, adding that global leaders could “fix” the worst impacts of the climate crisis “in no time at all if they wanted to.”
We all think that climate change is somebody else’s problem. We have to be persuaded otherwise
“This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it’s an agreement that we’ll all cross our fingers and hope for the best.”
The proposed lease sale, said over 250 groups in a joint letter, “shockingly offers more area than the Trump administration initially proposed.”
Interview on climate change and the young activists working hard to fight it
The editorial certainly reflected “longstanding values” — since the Times has recycled them for decades in its relentless attacks on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party
A wealth elite engineers our environment to perpetuate itself and sustain the power structures on which it depends
The supporters of the price rise (read Hindutva brigade) argue that increased revenues that come from the indigent pocket are necessary for a benign state and the government to finance ‘so many’ welfare schemes
In an effort to cut off the financial lifelines of six of the most prominent Palestinian human rights groups, the state of Israel has baselessly designated them as “terrorist” organizations
The quieter focus of the film The Drummer is the lasting physical and psychological impact of military service, under post 9/11 conditions
Restructuring the international economic order to avert cataclysmic climate change demands bottom-up participation
Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their ‘defence’ spending
At least since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, conspiracy theories have become an ever increasing problem
‘Our Democracy Faces an Existential Threat’
If you want a choice not to wear a mask, that’s okay, stay home, don’t endanger others
I wrote No Bosses because I believe we need shared vision to sustain hope, orient strategy, and escalate commitment. I recently wondered, what if I were invited to review No Bosses? What would I say?