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The Future is Up for Grabs
The Future is Up for Grabs When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic, dystopian future is being charted while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out. Naomi Klein’s latest piece, […]
Disaster collectivism: How communities rise together to respond to crises
Disaster collectivism: How communities rise together to respond to crises When Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017, Judith Rodriguez was asleep in her home. Or rather, she was trying to sleep, but the sounds of the deadly storm blowing over the island woke her up. “That whistle was the ugliest I’ve […]
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature” The skyline of Manhattan at sunset in New York, May 23, 2018. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images THIS SUNDAY, THE entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a […]
Former Bank of Canada Head: Pipeline Protesters May Be Killed. So Be It.
Former Bank of Canada Head: Pipeline Protesters May Be Killed. So Be It. “North American governments have shown the ‘fortitude’ necessary to kill indigenous people often enough that this is no idle threat,” warns Bill McKibben. Protesters at a rally in Vancouver to show opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline on September 9th, 2017. (Photo: […]
Jeffrey Sachs Still Promotes Disaster
Jeffrey Sachs Still Promotes Disaster Amedeo Modigliani Elvira Resting at a Table 1919Many of you are undoubtedly familiar with Naomi Klein’s 2007 book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, in which she describes how neoliberalism, as developed by Milton Friedman and his Chicago School, wreaks often very brutal and bloody havoc upon societies […]
Review: No Is Not Enough
Review: No Is Not Enough Samir Dathi reviews No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics, by Naomi Klein Naomi Klein’s new books always provoke plenty of excitement on the left. For starters, they always seem to augur new waves of popular struggle. The Canadian journalist’s debut No Logo, an exposé of corporate super-branding, went […]
In a Summer of Wildfires and Hurricanes, My Son Asks “Why Is Everything Going Wrong?”
In a Summer of Wildfires and Hurricanes, My Son Asks “Why Is Everything Going Wrong?” THE NEWS FROM the natural world these days is mostly about water, and understandably so. We hear about the record-setting amounts of water that Hurricane Harvey dumped on Houston and other Gulf cities and towns, mixing with petrochemicals to pollute […]
Some Thoughts on Systems Change
Some Thoughts on Systems Change It becomes clearer with each passing day that simply ameliorating current problems is not going to be sufficient. This blog is about how we might scale up transformative change. There is an ongoing litany of alarming and depressing news regarding climate change and the growing gap between our aspirations for addressing […]
Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria
Syrian refugee prays after arriving on shores of Greece Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria American, European and Russian corporations are the only ones winning from humanitarian disasters of their own making As a tentative ceasefire continues to hold in Syria, with the next round of peace talks having resumed this week, you’d be […]
Naomi Klein: ‘We Face a Series of Radical Options’
Naomi Klein: ‘We Face a Series of Radical Options’ An exclusive Tyee preview of Klein’s sold-out climate talk in Vancouver. Naomi Klein: ‘Steady as she goes’ is not an option. For anyone with even a passing knowledge of climate change, Naomi Klein needs no introduction. Her 2014 bestseller This Changes Everything was described as “the most momentous […]
Democratic Energy and Climate Change
Democratic Energy and Climate Change Thoughts on the book “This changes everything” by Naomi Klein Today, man is still, or more than ever, man’s enemy, not only because he continues as much as ever to give himself over to massacres of his fellow kind, but also because he is sawing off the branch on which […]
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina (Photo: Eric Gay/AP) For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The road in question was flooded and littered with bodies. […]
Naomi Klein Calls for System Change to Address Climate and Inequality
Naomi Klein Calls for System Change to Address Climate and Inequality A radically new economic and social system is urgently needed to tackle climate change and address intersecting social justice issues, the internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein told activists meeting in London today. “It’s not too late to get off the road, to grab the wheel of […]
‘Fighting for the Places We Love’: A Vision for the Climate Battles to Come
‘Fighting for the Places We Love’: A Vision for the Climate Battles to Come Ahead of upcoming Global Divestment Day, a conversation between author Naomi Klein and 350.org executive director May Boeve CD editor’s note: The following conversation between Naomi Klein and May Boeve took place as an online webinar hosted by 350.org last week in advance of […]
