Climate Change and Energy Transition: The 2023 Scorecard
By Richard Heinberg and J. David Hughes The numbers are in. Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin. The planet is now 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than it was before the fossil fuel...
View ArticleWar in Gaza and Yemen Incompatible with King’s Message
By Wim Laven “My conscience leaves me no other choice,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared while condemning the Vietnam War on April 4, 1967. He insisted that it was morally imperative for the...
View ArticleSenior Nonviolent Resister Celebrates Nuclear Ban Treaty the Hard Way
By John LaForge Monday 22 January marks the 3rd anniversary of the coming-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The TPNW has 70 “states parties” (signed and ratified) and 23...
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Why conspiracy theories are corrosive to social movements — and what to do...
By Shane Burley Antisemitic conspiracy theories on the fringe of the movement for a ceasefire in Gaza make it harder to effectively diagnose the problem and challenge power. “Be forewarned that this...
View ArticleOvercoming the Obstacles to UN Maintenance of International Peace and Security
By Lawrence S. Wittner Although, according to the UN Charter, the United Nations was established to “maintain international peace and security,” it has often fallen short of this goal. Russia’s...
View ArticleReviving the Concept of Trusteeship as a Stepping-Stone to Peace in the...
By Sovaida Maani Ewing Like it or not, our world has become so interconnected and interdependent that events that have hitherto been regarded as regional in nature now threaten our well-being...
View ArticleIs North Korea Preparing for War?
By Mel Gurtov North Korea’s Calculations Two of America’s most prominent North Korea experts, Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, begin their latest analysis with this sentence: “The situation on the...
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Standing Together: The Peace Movement Inside Israel
The biggest demonstration since the beginning of the war on Gaza defied the police and brought together all those calling for a ceasefire on the streets of Tel-Aviv. By Uri Weltmann Standing for...
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Biden Hits “Pause” on New Gas Exports Following Pressure From Climate Activists
The move is a win for the climate and Gulf Coast frontline communities, but activists warn a “pause” is easily undone. By Mike Ludwig A large liquified natural gas transport ship sits docked in the...
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The Heroes Fighting for Public Education
By Laura Pappano “A lot happens in school that is not about lesson plans or curriculum. School is about relationships, about people trying to improve themselves and connect with others, and, through...
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A huge battery has replaced Hawaiʻi’s last coal plant
Plus Power’s Kapolei battery is officially online. The pioneering project is a leading example of how to shift crucial grid functions from fossil-fueled plants to clean energy. Plus Power By Julian...
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Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic
Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons Featured image: Mark 5 Nuclear Bomb by Kelly Michals is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 / Flickr By Norman Solomon Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps...
View ArticleCan Democracy Survive the Morbidly Rich?
By Thom Hartmann So, Donald Trump won Iowa. A crazed billionaire who wants to “suspend the Constitution” and claims the right to murder his political enemies. It doesn’t have to be this way. Imagine....
View ArticleBlack History Illuminates “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome”
By Wim Laven On November 22, 2014, Tamir E. Rice, a 12-year-old African American boy, was killed at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland, Ohio; the officer, according to the DOJ, “fired two...
View ArticleUnions as a Pillar of Democracy in 2024
By Andrew Moss Unions are once again playing a significant role in a presidential election. Joe Biden joins striking auto workers on a picket line in Michigan; Donald Trump meets with Teamsters...
View ArticleWill Men Organize to End Gun Violence?
By Rob Okun How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? How many deaths will it take ’til he knows that too many people have died? —Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind” It’s been six...
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Anti-war and environmental groups protest outside Barclays bank
A BBC News Report BBC Activists claimed a partial win on Friday after Barclays announced it would stop directly financing energy clients’ new oil and gas projects Two protest groups staged...
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A galvanizing vision for Palestine-Israel could help stop the war in Gaza
By Andy Bichlbaum In 2017, Banksy painted these angels breaking open the West Bank separation wall using a crowbar. (Facebook/A Land for All) The Palestine solidarity movement has been an important...
View ArticleWhen Nukes Are Illegal Only Criminals Will Have Nukes
By Kary Love Dangnabbit, that’s where we are at. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is a legally binding international agreement that...
View ArticleCountering Corporate Propaganda
We are steeped in the cultural glorification of capitalist exploitation. What if we rejected economic individualism and instead embraced ideas rooted in collective well-being? By Sonali Kolhatkar...
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Nearly 300,000 OR kids await approval of summer food benefits
By Eric Tegethoff Oregon lawmakers have two weeks left in the session to approve funding for the Summer EBT program that helps feed children when school’s out. (Lindsay Trapnell/Oregon Food Bank) A...
View ArticleHow Workers Are Defying Republican Officials in the South
By David McCall Tanya Gaines and her co-workers launched a union drive in 2014 because it was the only way to win livable wages, fair treatment, and safe working conditions at the Golden Dragon copper...
View ArticleTell the Truth About Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity
By Sonali Kolhatkar Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during a distribution of food aid in Gaza city, pushing the Palestinian death...
View ArticleRestoring Human Dignity on the U.S. Southern Border
By Brad Wolf In one of the most violent cities in the Western hemisphere, we meet with immigrants in a shelter trying to make their way to safety in the United States. Reynosa, Mexico is just across...
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Imperiling Climate Goals, Global Resource Extraction Set to Surge 60% by 2060
Mining machines work in the Garzweiler open-pit lignite mine, with wind turbines in the background in North Rhine-Westphalia, Jackerath, Germany on April 4, 2022. (Photo: Federico...
View ArticleEmpire Decline and Costly Delusions
By Richard D. Wolff When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried the same, the Soviet Union responded...
View ArticleThe Tears of War Belong to All of Us
By Robert C. Koehler First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! You can kill as many of them as you want. Well, maybe there will be consequences...
View ArticleWhat’s More Powerful Than a Ruling Authoritarian?
By Winslow Myers Navalny’s funeral service in Moscow was unfolding as I wrote this. Putin apparently didn’t allow enough of a tiny crack of compassion in the shell of his peanut-sized heart to permit...
View ArticleGlobal Pet Craze Is Becoming a Major Contributor to the Extinction Crisis
Pets and the industry that supports them are fueling the loss of wildlife populations around the world. By Peter Christie In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental...
View ArticleWe Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
By David Fridley and Richard Heinberg The transition to renewable energy is inevitable given the current climate crisis and the fact that fossil fuels are a finite resource. To make the shift, a...
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Capitalism Has Left the Building. Enter Technofeudalism
By Mark Lesseraux (Image by Synthesized from the following two Creative Commons images: Dollar Bill: www.flickr.com/photos/pixelcore/1929817712/in/photostream/ Binary:...
View ArticleIndigenous people rejoice after city of Berkeley votes to return sacred...
By Janie Har and Olga R. Rodriguez Ohlone people and others rejoiced Wednesday (March 13, 2024) over the return of sacred Native land dating back thousands of years, saying the move rights a historic...
View ArticleThe Ugly Origins of Trump’s “America First” Policy
By Lawrence S. Wittner People’s choice of words can be revealing. That’s certainly the case with respect to one of Donald Trump’s favorite slogans, “America First.” In April 2016, Trump initially...
View ArticleThe Double Edge Theater’s Project to ‘Rematriate Land’
By April M. Short The economic realities in the U.S. do not generally support working-class artists and culture bearers—an issue that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a...
View ArticleA One-State Solution Could Transform the World
By Robert C. Koehler Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in today’s world than . . . ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and Israel, with, good God, every resident equally valued,...
View ArticleWhat’s So Green About Burning Trees? The False Promise of Biomass Energy
Editors’ Note: Along with its critique of biomass energy, this lengthy article says much about natural forests and the fundamental values of undisturbed stands of trees. By Sam Davis Renewable energy...
View ArticleCorporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
By Sonali Kolhatkar The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not built to withstand a direct hit from a container...
View ArticleBiden Is Quietly Funding Nuclear Weapons Upgrades That Could Imperil the Planet
By Jonathan King and Richard Krushnic President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech failed to discuss a critical matter — the administration’s funding for the upgrading of all three legs of the...
View ArticleLatest Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from U.S. to Israel Not Newsworthy...
By Norman Solomon When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to...
View ArticleTax Day and War Resistance, Philip Berrigan Style
By Brad Wolf Each year Americans forfeit a sizable slice of their income to the United States Treasury to fund the government. Tax Day is dreaded. No one likes surrendering their hard-earned cash. But...
View ArticleCongress Puts Taxpayers On the Hook for Nuclear Accidents
Biden approves extension of Price-Anderson Act (PAA) By stop nuclear work group Congress demonstrates no confidence in new reactor design claims of “inherent safety” with PAA 40-year expansion to 2065...
View ArticleYurok Tribe Becomes First To Steward Land With National Park Service
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Restoring Prairie Creek to ecological integrity is part of the plan for the 125-acre ‘O Rew Redwoods Gateway, which represents a first-ever model for tribal, federal, and...
View ArticleCurrent U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged
By Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears, Jeffrey Sachs Norman Solomon invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are...
View ArticleA Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
By Richard D. Wolff By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services....
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Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case
By Ajit Niranjan Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled. In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s empty promises on jobs
By Lawrence S. Wittner In mid-2015, announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, Donald Trump declared that he would “be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”...
View ArticleInterdependency Is the Missing Understanding in International Relations
By Winslow Myers Good that defensive anti-missiles worked against Iran’s barrage. Still, two elements were more suited to the playground than to international politics: face and revenge. One side...
View ArticleCreating Community, One Conversation at a Time
By Melinda Burrell Walking home one evening, I came to an intersection. A family and a couple were waiting for the light, the family bantering about crossing against the light. “My knees won’t let me...
View ArticleHow Unions and Joe Biden Are Launching a New Frontier in American Manufacturing
By David McCall Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years while keeping the aging equipment there...
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Climate movement elders revive monkey wrench tactics to save an old forest
By Nick Engelfried Earlier this year, seven activists entered the site of a proposed timber sale in Washington State, intent on halting — or at least delaying — the destruction of trees with immense...
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