Climate and Environmental Crisis

China holds first-ever carbon-neutral Olympics

This year’s Beijing Winter Olympics is the first in history to be carbon-neutral. This includes renewable energy in all game…

February 14, 2022

Hawaiians, U.S. military dependents protest Navy fuel pollution

By Anne Kealohapau‘ole Jan. 9 — Protesters angered by the water crisis persevere at rallies at the Hawai‘i Department of…

January 13, 2022

The inferno industry and PG&E

Jan. 8 — In the first week of 2022, California fire officials finally placed the blame for the massive Dixie…

January 10, 2022

Murder and the rate of return – an editorial

In a footnote to Volume 1 of Capital, first published in 1867, Karl Marx quoted from the 19th century English…

December 20, 2021

COP26: Youth demand change, politicians protect fossil fuel industry

Two weeks of high-profile negotiations, against a background of climate catastrophes, ended Nov. 13 with little to show for the…

November 17, 2021

A union worker’s perspective from Puerto Rico – before and after Hurricane María

By Walberto Rolón I began lineman training in 1989 – a chance that for many of Puerto Rico’s youth is…

November 12, 2021

COP26: More “blah, blah, blah!”

Midway through the COP26 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, over 100,000 youth marched Nov. 5 to express consensus that…

November 10, 2021

Supply chain crisis: Driven by deregulation

Corporate media and the Biden administration have focused on major West Coast ports, specifically Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.,…

November 4, 2021

International Tribunal finds U.S. guilty of crimes against humanity

The International Tribunal on Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples was held Oct. 23-25 at The Malcolm…

November 1, 2021

Defend Apache people’s Oak Flats

Apache Stronghold activists rallied in San Francisco Oct. 21, the day before the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard…

October 25, 2021