Tag: climate emergency
2023: A year of global human rights regression amid political expediency
Human Rights Watch's 2024 report exposes a year of global human rights backsliding amidst political compromises.
Over 84 million people forcibly displaced by climate emergency, insecurity, and...
“The international community must redouble its efforts to make peace, and at the same time must ensure resources are available to displaced communities and their hosts.”
220+ medical journals unite to demand urgent action on climate emergency
“The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C and to restore nature,” warn journals in unprecedented joint editorial.
Greta Thunberg: New IPCC Report is a wake-up call for all...
“The climate crisis is not going away. It’s only escalating, and it’s only growing more intense by the hour.”
Scientists who issued ‘climate emergency’ declaration in 2019 now say Earth’s...
A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.
Jane Fonda arrested: We are in a climate emergency. I have...
We speak with Jane Fonda about her climate activism and why she started Fire Drill Fridays.
‘Climate emergency. Look it up.’: Activists and experts celebrate New Oxford...
“STAY LOUD, it's working,” declared Greenpeace Canada.
Fascism then and now
A new book
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled “Fascism, Then and...
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.