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End Times, Dead Ahead
End Times, Dead Ahead “It is time we consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the lifetimes of people alive today.” (Jem Bendell) In other words, the world is coming to an end. Of course it is… but when? Professor Jem Bendell’s brilliant seminal work, “Deep Adaptation: […]
The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism
The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism Far from dying down after the holidays, France’s yellow vest movement is continuing to blaze throughout the country. Every Saturday for eleven weeks, protesters have been disrupting or blocking roads, traffic circles and freeway toll plazas, gathering in the squares of villages, taking to […]
The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction
The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction Near term human extinction is not all bad. For one thing it’s absolutely free. No need to break the piggy bank. And the whole family can go. It’s gratis. Not only that, but you can even bring your pets. Cat, dog. parrot, termite you name it. […]
Complaint Lodged with European Ombudsman: Regulatory Authorities Colluding with Agrochemicals Industry
Complaint Lodged with European Ombudsman: Regulatory Authorities Colluding with Agrochemicals Industry Back in 2016, I posed the question in The Ecologist whether regulators in the EU were acting as product promoters when it came to the relicensing of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup. The renewal of the license for glyphosate in the EU was […]
The Next Recession: What It Could Look Like
The Next Recession: What It Could Look Like With the New Year and the US recovery soon to be record-breaking in duration, many are asking when the next recession is likely to come and what will cause it. While none of us has a crystal ball that gives a clear view of the future, there […]
Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests
Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests A State of Emergency That Does Not Say His Name According to Vincent Brengarth, a lawyer at the Paris Bar, in recent years we have been witnessing a disturbing drift in police repression in France, more specifically since November 2015 when the state of emergency was pronounced […]
The Death Penalty for Canada’s Foreign Policy?
The Death Penalty for Canada’s Foreign Policy? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined with the chorus of Western countries supporting Canada’s protestations against the “arbitrary,” and “politically motivated” death sentence imposed by a Chinese court on Canadian drug smuggler Robert Schellenberg. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland praised Pompeo’s “recognition of the principle that […]
Shut Down the War Machine!
Shut Down the War Machine! The time has come to cut the US military down to size. Last November, the Pentagon admitted what critics have known for years: It cannot pass an audit that would let Congress, the media and taxpayers know what it does with the trillions of dollars that have been lavished on […]
A Planet in Crisis: The Heat’s On Us
A Planet in Crisis: The Heat’s On Us I’m standing atop Rush Hill on Alaska’s remote St. Paul Island. While only 665 feet high, it provides a 360-degree view of this tundra-covered, 13-mile-long, seven-mile-wide part of the Pribilof Islands. While the hood of my rain jacket flaps in the cold wind, I gaze in wonder […]
Pompeo, the U.S. and Iran
Pompeo, the U.S. and Iran The United States’ international windbag, Secretary of Defense (read: War) Mike Pompeo has been acting the imperial blowhard throughout the Middle East. With his boss busy denying that he’s a Russian agent, watching advisors and cabinet members come and go with dizzying alacrity, and dodging porn-star accusations, Pompeo is trotting […]
Uniting for a Green New Deal
Uniting for a Green New Deal Support is growing in the United States for a Green New Deal. Though there are competing visions for what that looks like, essentially, a Green New Deal includes a rapid transition to a clean energy economy, a jobs program and a stronger social safety net. We need a Green […]
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. A burgeoning save-the-climate effort called the Green New Deal, explains Vox’s David Roberts, “has thrust climate change into the national conversation, put House Democrats on notice, and created an intense and escalating bandwagon effect. … everyone […]
Why Sustainable Agriculture Should Support a Green New Deal
Why Sustainable Agriculture Should Support a Green New Deal “For Sale” signs have replaced “Dairy of Distinction” on the last two dairy farms on the road I drive to town. The farm crisis of the 1980’s that never really went away has resurfaced with a vengeance. In 2013, aggregate farm earnings were half of what […]
Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon? No. Governments mangle; corporations distort. Interest groups tinker. Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated. Inconsistencies must be removed. There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand […]
A Green Future is One Without War
A Green Future is One Without War Donald Trump and his base — the leftover scraps of Jim Crow, the broken shards of racist hatred that once were the American mainstream and made the country seem “great” to those who weren’t its victims — have, it appears, a crucial role to play in our future. […]
