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Put the Planet First

Ted Rall •ï¿½November 29, 2024

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We face so many challenges that the task of choosing which ones to emphasize and which can be edited out for the sake of brevity is nearly impossible. So many injustices afflict our fellow human beings that, of those that make the shortlist to be attacked and redressed, determining an order of priority is best... Read More

Saving the Planet: A Draft Manifesto

Walt King •ï¿½November 19, 2024

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Back in the 1950s when I was still yet to be a teenager, I would disobediently keep my bedroom light on to read into the night: one night I hadnâ€™t noticed that a small window was still open. Within a minute the room was infested with moths and other insects. Later, in the 1960s, I... Read More

The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State

Ellen Brown •ï¿½July 13, 2024

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In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year old ruling, reclaiming the Courtâ€™s role as interpreter of statutory law as it applies to a massive body of regulations imposed by federal agencies in such areas as the environment, workplace safety, public health and more. The Courtâ€™s 6-3 conservative majority... Read More

The Music of the Moon: Re-Enchantment and the Biggest Crime in History

Tobias Langdon •ï¿½December 23, 2023

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More money, more sex, more status, more possessions, more gratification. Thatâ€™s how too many people in the modern world would answer one simple question: â€œWhat would you like in your life?â€ When I asked myself that question, I was surprised by speed and naturalness with which the answer came to me: Iâ€™d like more stars... Read More

We Came, We Dithered, We Died

Ted Rall •ï¿½August 18, 2023

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"We believe that the damage done to the ocean in the last 20 years is somewhere between 30 per cent and 50 per cent, which is a frightening figure. And this damage carries on at very high speed â€” to the Indian Ocean, to the Red Sea, to the Mediterranean, to the Atlantic. ... Everywhere... Read More

Why Iâ€™m for Kennedy

A.J. Smuskiewicz •ï¿½May 22, 2023

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When I was a teenager in the mid-1970s, I considered myself to be an environmentalist. I wanted to protect natural habitats and wildlife because I loved them and I was interested in them. Those positive feelings had been inspired by my own experiences with nature and animals, as well as by Marlin Perkinsâ€™ Wild Kingdom... Read More

The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster

Ellen Brown •ï¿½April 13, 2023

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Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparentsâ€™ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfatherâ€™s grandfather fought at Gettysburg and homesteaded the 160-acre farm after the Civil War. My grandmother sold it in the 1960s for $13,000, lacking a male heir to do the work; but my relatives... Read More

Nepal. Photo credit: Pavel Novak / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.5

World Population Growth Threatens Disaster for Western Civilization

Gregory Hood •ï¿½November 10, 2022

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In less than a week, there will be eight billion people on Earth. United Nations Population Fund chief Natalie Kanem is cheerful about it: â€œEight billion people, it is a momentous milestone for humanity. Yet, I realize this moment might not be celebrated by all. Some express concerns that our world is overpopulated. I am... Read More

Conservation IS Conservative: BLM? Black-and-Yellow Lives Matter

Ilana Mercer •ï¿½August 4, 2022

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Our mountain neighborhood is blessed with a unique layout. The lower-neighborhood stretch faces green embankments, angled at approximately 60 degrees. Abutted each side by the road, this lovely midsection divides the lower and upper homes of a boulevard-like neighborhood. Neighbors must maintain their embankments. I prefer my incline to be natural, which means that right... Read More

In Praise of Bad Weather

Ted Rall •ï¿½March 12, 2021

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There is joy in the air. That joy is misplaced. For that joy might kill us. I set down these words on the 9th of March in Manhattan. Historically, the average temperature on this day of the year is 40 degrees Fahrenheit. If the weather forecast for today, March 9, 2021, is correct â€” and... Read More

Biden Offers Moderate Solutions to Radical Problems

Ted Rall •ï¿½February 19, 2021

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"Radical solutions require radical solutions," I wrote in my 2010 book, "The Anti-American Manifesto," a polemic that calls upon us to save ourselves from imminent social, economic and political collapse by overthrowing the system and rebuilding society from the ground up. We currently face several radical problems. But we're not likely to rise to the... Read More

"Green" Austerity: New York Schools and Prisons Begin Phasing Out Meat In the Name of Climate Change

Eric Striker •ï¿½January 27, 2020

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The Great Awokening is in full swing, and as usual, people with few rights are the first test subjects. Left-liberal types treat concerns that climate change NGOs and high finance are conspiring to force working people to stop eating meat and beef products as baseless conspiracy theories. But in areas where Jewish and capitalist "Rockefellar... Read More

Burn the Amazon!

Eric Margolis •ï¿½August 24, 2019

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Cut down the trees. Kill the wild animals. Burn the bush. Pollute the rivers. Pave over the grass. Raise more beef, pigs and poultry in cages. Thatâ€™s the credo of the new right. Hatred of Nature is an integral part of its politics. President Donald Trump is the high priest of such environmental vandalism. In... Read More

President Nixonâ€™s Accomplishments in Protecting the Environment Are Being Destroyed by the Trump Regime

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½August 15, 2019

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Two days ago I wrote about how our allegedly full employment economyâ€™s need for jobs had caused the Trump regime to overule the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and permit extractive companies to destroy protected lands ( ). Today our subject thanks to Stephen Lendman ( ) is the Trump regimeâ€™s destruction of the Endangered Species... Read More

â€œGold Over Life, Literallyâ€

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½August 13, 2019

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The decision by Alaskaâ€™s governor Mike Dunleavy and US president Donald Trump to sacrifice the environment for a gold mine is an extremely bad one, but I understand why it has happened. The offshoring of Americansâ€™ jobs to Mexico and Asia has put millions of Americans into a situation in which their livelihood is not... Read More

Drilling, Drilling, Everywhere...

Will the Trump Administration Take Down the Arctic Refuge?

Subhankar Banerjee •ï¿½November 9, 2017

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What happens in the Arctic doesnâ€™t just stay up north. It affects the world, as that region is the integrator of our planetâ€™s climate systems, atmospheric and oceanic. At the moment, the northernmost places on Earth are warming at more than twice the global average, a phenomenon whose impact is already being felt planetwide. Welcome... Read More

Michael Klare: "The Battle Lines of the Future"

Tom Engelhardt •ï¿½June 11, 2017

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Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt had a genuine howler the other day. On NBCâ€™s Meet the Press, he said, â€œSince the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, weâ€™ve added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs.â€ Try instead maybe 1,000 jobs in the... Read More

Is Trump Launching a New World Order?

The Petro-Powers vs. the Greens

Michael T. Klare •ï¿½June 11, 2017

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That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, weâ€™ve been told, President Trump is dismantling the liberal world order created by Franklin D. Roosevelt at the end of World War II.... Read More

The Globalization of Environmental Degradation

George Albert and Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½February 13, 2017

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Figuratively speaking, a ginormous asteroid is hurtling to a cataclysmic rendezvous with earth, but we are not supposed to notice. The asteroid is the rising threat from environmental degradation. Evidence is accumulating that environmental degradation is becoming global. We can either act responsibly by accepting the challenge or take refuge in denial and risk the... Read More

Privatizing Americaâ€™s Public Land

How the Raid on Malheur Screened a Future Raid on Real Estate

William deBuys •ï¿½May 17, 2016

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It goes without saying that in a democracy everyone is entitled to his or her own opinions. The trouble starts when people think they are also entitled to their own facts. Away out West, on the hundreds of millions of acres of public lands that most Americans take for granted (if they are aware of... Read More

William DeBuys: No More Wide Open Spaces?

Tom Engelhardt •ï¿½May 17, 2016

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One summer 43 years ago, I headed west with a photographer friend, interviewing Americans at minor league baseball parks, fairgrounds, tourist spots, campgrounds, wherever the moment and our Volkswagen van took us. Grandiosely enough, our goal was â€œto tap the mood of the nation,â€ which led to my first book, Beyond Our Control: America in... Read More

An African Story

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½November 7, 2014

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Having watched the taxpayer and Federal Reserve bailout of the financial institutions, the criminal actions of which had collapsed the economy, he realized that the financial system and its regulators were corrupt and committed to protecting the house of cards that corruption had created. The flood of liquidity that was on its way would drive... Read More

William DeBuys: Love Affair in the Back Country

Tom Engelhardt •ï¿½September 28, 2014

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Without visiting it, the eighteenth-century French natural scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, propounded the theory that the New World was an inferior creation, its species but degenerate versions of European ones. â€œThere is no North American animal comparable to the elephant: no giraffes, lions, or hippopotami,â€ he wrote. â€œAll animals are smaller... Everything shrinks... Read More

The Wilderness Act Turns 50

Celebrating the Great Laws of 1964

William deBuys •ï¿½September 28, 2014

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Let us now praise famous laws and the year that begat them: 1964. The first thing to know about 1964 was that, although it occurred in the 1960s, it wasnâ€™t part of â€œthe Sixties.â€ The bellbottoms, flower power, LSD, and craziness came later, beginning about 1967 and extending into the early 1970s. Trust me: I... Read More

Failure in Rio

CounterPunch Diary

Alexander Cockburn •ï¿½June 22, 2012

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The predictable word is in from Rio: failure. The conference twenty years on from the huge Earth Summit, Rio 92, has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the worldâ€™s community to â€œsustainable principles.â€ The reason? These conferences have always been pretty fraudulent affairs, lofted on excited green rhetoric... Read More

The Crude Truth

CounterPunch Diary

Alexander Cockburn •ï¿½June 11, 2010

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The British learn every few years that their much vaunted â€œspecial relationshipâ€ with the United States is actually, in terms of relationships, rather more normal than they suppose â€“ being a zig-zagging affair fraught with hypocrisy, deception and self interest, with underlying patterns of dominance and submission as fetchingly described by Sade and Sacher-Masoch. The... Read More

You Drill, You Spill

CounterPunch Diary

Alexander Cockburn •ï¿½May 7, 2010

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Sobering, is it not, to realize that the possible survival of a huge oil company, of several billion shrimp, assorted species of fish and birds, not to mention avoidance of a near lethal lurch in the fortunes of Louisianaâ€™s fishing and ocean rec industries and the future of offshore drilling up the Atlantic coast could... Read More

A Surfeit of Piety

Commies, Conservatives, And Trash On The Trail

Fred Reed •ï¿½September 30, 2002

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I'm trying to figure out environmentalism and why everyone hollers about it. I'm having a hard time. My own environmental prejudices: I like back-country camping. I don't see the advantage in having a trail covered with beer cans and styrofoam. Maybe there is a benefit, and I'm just slow, and don't understand. But I don't... Read More

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