Issues / Environment

  • Too Soon to Tell

    Commentary

    By Rebecca Solnit, May 22, 2013

    Hope and history are sisters: one looks forward and one looks back, and they make the world spacious enough to move through freely.

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  • Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth

    Commentary

    By Tom Engelhardt, May 9, 2013

    What if the unipolar moment turns out to be a planetary moment in which previously distinct imperial events fuse into a single disastrous system?

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  • Wall Street's Climate Finance Bonanza

    Commentary

    By Janet Redman and Antonio Tricarico, April 10, 2013

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    An elite group of developed countries appears to be on the brink of instigating yet another corporate handout and big bank giveaway--this time in the name of fighting climate change.

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  • GM Seeds and the Militarization of Food (And Everything Else)

    Commentary

    By Jon Letman, March 6, 2013

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    Dr. Vandana Shiva talks about GMOs, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation, and the primacy of biodiversity.

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  • Climate Change as History's Deal-Breaker

    Commentary

    By Tom Engelhardt, March 4, 2013

    Climate change, global warming, extreme weather -- call it what you will -- is the obvious deal-breaker in human, if not planetary, history.

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  • Towards a Foreign Policy for the 99 Percent

    Commentary

    By Kevin Martin, December 18, 2012

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    There is a growing U.S. movement linking human and environmental needs with a demand to end our wars and liberate the vast resources they consume.

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  • We're Not Broke

    Report

    By Emily Schwartz Greco, December 5, 2012

    New Revenues

    This commonsense guide to avoiding the fiscal swindle would nearly eliminate the budget deficit while making the United States more equitable, green, and secure.

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