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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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.