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Climate Scientist Michael Mann on Deadly Tornadoes in 8 States

Interview on how much democracy is there with so much wealth and power in so few hands

Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.”

Every step of the way, teachers are prevented from actually performing their vocation

One in 20 survey respondents—representing 12.7 million people—said a friend or family member died over the past year after not receiving treatment because they couldn’t afford it

If they’re successful, they’ll join Buffalo workers in being the first of the company’s roughly 9,000 corporate-owned locations to form a union

Which can only be good for the labor movement

Striking workers at Warrior Met Coal and cereal giant Kellogg’s are having their legally protected right to picket stripped away by business-friendly judges, but they’re not giving up

Whatever your lived experience of eco-anxiety, it’s important that you find ways to share your feelings in a safe setting so you can manage them day-to-day

Two new and powerful climate groups — Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion — have been particularly important. Our research suggests they have championed new models and tactics of activism, and also grappled with racism in their own ranks

It’s up to all of us desiring a better world on the ground to walk the walk as well

“We aren’t asking, we demand change. Kentucky needs Build Back Better now.”

You’d think that Israel might feel obligated not to drag the United States into another disastrous military conflict in the Middle East

Helping Africa in its critical fight against the pandemic should have been done in a more systematic fashion as part of an inclusive global strategy

“Allowing payments and collections to resume without taking these actions to protect borrowers in default would undermine our economic recovery”

Perhaps those guardians of my country’s dignity, the ghosts of those that Pinochet banished from this world, will protect their compatriots as we decide the fate of our beloved and besieged land

It’s not the nuclear deal that’s the problem for Tel Aviv, but the very idea that Washington and Tehran would reach any detente at all

For some, it’s a left-wing adoption of neoliberalism. For others, it’s authoritarian. But it’s really just about equality

Please Help ZNet             Source: ABC Religion & Ethics An earlier version of this essay was presented to the National Conference on Racial and Social Justice on 17 November 2021. We are at a tipping point in the racial history of the United States — perhaps the most important moment Read more…

Interview on COP26 climate summit in Glasgow

“This is essentially a government handout of up to tens of billions of dollars to the fossil fuel industry.”

Build unions, raise living and working standards, shorten hours at higher pay—and this supply chain crisis will abate, labor shortages will become a thing of the past, and a blow to today’s outrageous inequality will be struck

The frenzy occurring over the idea that schoolteachers would dare to discuss racism reveals the unmistakable hold that overt racism continues to have among large segments of the white U.S

The struggle against this type of zealotry cannot be won with tanks and bombs, it is a war for hearts and minds, and that war can be won with eco-development on a grand scale

Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon

It’s not just about Trump — the insurrectionists believe ‘their version of America is under threat’

Peru’s socialist president, Pedro Castillo, came into office to fight neoliberalism, but his agenda has been derailed by the Right

For some, the ‘war on woke’ is just common sense. But they’ll find that the pillars holding up England’s traditional hierarchies are rotting

Let’s make this current fight for abortion and a woman’s right to bodily autonomy be the opening shot in the war to root out every last vestige of capitalism

Press Freedom in Danger

Progressive lawmakers are celebrating after Starbucks workers in Buffalo triumphed over nearly insurmountable odds to form the company’s first-ever union

India’s ASHA and anganwadi workers are rallying under the slogan “Community health work is work!” to demand fair pay and treatment for the essential services they provide

This week, Democrats eschewed opportunities to stop U.S. maintenance of Saudi warplanes and halt a missile sale to the kingdom

“Terrible news all around for the capitalist bums.”

This school began the year 42 educators short. That number has only increased as more teachers leave, exhausted and overwhelmed, or call in sick due to Covid and stressful, unsustainable conditions

“I cannot be separated from my cause. My job won’t get me back to my homeland. Staying faithful to my right of return and right to resist is what will get me back.”

Who among us is prepared to stand up rather than remain mere bystanders to an epic travesty such as the judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange?

The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed–or even infuriated.

CCS is the fossil-fuel industry’s last-gasp attempt to prevent the U.S. and the world from abandoning fossil energy in favor of cheaper, cleaner solar power

There’s one place in the world where the Green New Deal is a policy reality. But is it living up to its hype?

What Needs to Be Done to Finally End Them

“She’s inheriting a broken country, legal system and Supreme Court and is coming into an empty house that has been robbed.”

Calls Mount to Cancel Debt & Halt Wealth Transfer to the Rich

Whether right-wing, left-wing or center, Israel is committed to its military superiority, its racism and to the military occupation more than ever before

“If we can do this here, you can do this too”

Wild-eyed speculation about the Kremlin’s intentions has so far run aground on Russia’s apparent reluctance to engage in a shooting war that could spiral into a full-on nuclear holocaust

The Green Party of the United States Steering Committee strongly supports the use of vaccines, vaccine mandates and quarantines as part of a comprehensive public health effort to curb and eradicate the novel Coronavirus

As the US teeters on the brink of outlawing abortion, an expert from Poland explains the practical and emotional consequences of such a ban

The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence.

What we should know by now is that imperial reliance by the Global North on hard power to control societies in the Global South is a costly, prolonged undertaking, prone to failure and is a major reason for the power shifts from West to East during the last half century