By Daniel Lazare
Now that Syria’s “cessation of hostilities” appears to be crumbling and rebel forces are gearing up for a fresh offensive, the mighty U.S. propaganda machine is once again up and running.
By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia
Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported.
By Chuck Orloski
One grunt flew over the Tigerland
(11 Bravo, A.I.T, Fort Polk, LA, November 1970)
On bivouac in Kisatchie National Forest,
a wild combat veteran Drill Sergeant
promised the grunts, “No rain coming tonight,
so no need for you m-fuckers to pitch tents!
Just get ya’ girly asses beneath sleeping bags,
and maybe a Pygmy Rattler will come tuck y’all in.”
By Thom Hartmann
Another day, and another coal company is trying to rob its workers of their pensions and health plans.
By Derrick Broze
Around 150 protesters, representing several tribes and nations, gathered at the Texas-Mexico border to raise awareness about the environmental and cultural threats posed by a recently launched open-pit coal mine.
By Wayne Ellwood
From the air, the earth is shorn and desiccated. Waves of heat billow upward, mixed with plumes of smoke. A few lonely trees stand in relief against the flattened landscape, while knots of cattle clump together in dusty paddocks ringed by barbed wire. This is the Brazilian state of Rondônia, the heart of the Amazon, wedged between the vast state of Amazonas to the north and, due south, Bolivia.
By John Chuckman
In truth, there is no such thing as a right.
The last three centuries or so of European history developed the concept and fixed it in our minds as something real and many modern states have enumerated lists of rights, but, in the limit, the concept of rights has no force behind it.
By Tim Radford
A forest could be its own economic community as trees establish their own free trade area. They don’t just build their own tissues with atmospheric carbon, they also share it with the neighbours, according to new research.
By Andrea Germanos
Our ever-warming planet just passed another climate record.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Tuesday that March 2016 was the warmest March since records began in 1880.
By Ramzy Baroud
“We won’t act like them, we will not use violence or force, we are peaceful, we believe in peace, in peaceful popular resistance.” This was part of a message issued by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in October, only days after a few incidents took place in which Palestinian youth were accused of attacking Israeli soldiers and settlers with knives.