Climate and Environmental Crisis

Native activists demand shutdown of Enbridge oil pipeline

Straits of Mackinac Michigan Organizers from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians were among Native-American and environmental activists…

September 15, 2015

Obama’s Alaska trip motivated by Big Oil and war threats

With great fanfare, while making an unprecedented presidential trip to Alaska on Aug. 31, President Barack Obama “renamed” the tallest…

September 3, 2015

Katrina + 10: Natural disaster or forced removals?

It has been a decade since the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were dislocated due to the…

September 2, 2015

EPA spill threatens Diné community

Corn, melons, squashes and other crops, along with sheep and cattle -- these are what the Diné (Navajo) farmers grow…

August 17, 2015

The really big one: Natural disasters or capitalism?

In its July 20 issue, the New Yorker magazine published an article headlined “The Really Big One.” It dealt with…

August 10, 2015

Activists form a human blockade to stop Arctic drilling

On July 29, 13 bold protesters rappelled down from the St. Johns Bridge, which crosses the entrance to the Portland,…

August 7, 2015

SCOTUS sides with corporate poisoners

Revenue minus cost equals profit. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling in the case, “Michigan…

July 23, 2015

Global warming kills thousands in Asia

For the last two months, the Indian subcontinent has suffered through the grip of an unprecedented heat wave. Thousands of…

July 6, 2015

‘Shell: No Arctic oil drilling!’

Seattle, May 18 — Since the start of this year, a groundswell of opposition has arisen against Royal Dutch Shell’s…

May 22, 2015

Why a warming planet means game over for capitalism

Until his veto of the Keystone XL pipeline on Feb. 24, President Barack Obama had kept the entire world unsure…

April 15, 2015