De cómo la escasez de recursos y el cambio climático podrían producir una explosión global Prepárense. Puede que aún no se lo digan, pero, según los expertos de todo el mundo y la comunidad de la inteligencia estadounidense, la tierra está cambiando ya bajo sus pies. Lo sepan o no, Vds. están sobre un planeta diferente, [...]

How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you.  Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort [...]

On this Earth Day, those of us fighting for climate justice and an end to the world’s fossil fuel domination should take heart from the struggle against slavery. Imagine for a moment that it is 1858 and you are an abolitionist. Talk about discouragement: The previous year, in its Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

Fossil fuel companies’ bet that climate agreements won’t stop them from burning carbon puts pension funds at risk     Suppose you weren’t worried that we humans are destroying our water supply and eroding our ability to feed ourselves by burning coal and gas and oil and hence changing climate. Suppose you thought that was all liberal hooey. [...]

And If So, Is That Terrible News? A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the “Selma and Stonewall” of the climate movement.

An update on the battle to stop the Keystone XL pipeline After a very chaotic week on Capitol Hill, I wanted to write you with an update on what happened in the Senate on Friday.

Poco después de que la campaña conjunta de bombardeos británico-estadounidense “Operación Zorro del Desierto” devastara zonas de Iraq en diciembre de 1998, me encontraba en el vestíbulo del Hotel Palestina en Bagdad lamentándome a un amigo. 

Patrick Bond: A massive protest could push Obama to stop the Tar Sands pipe line and shift climate debate away from market solutions

Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.

El dilema de Washington ante la “pérdida” del planeta [Este artículo es una adaptación del capítulo “Uprisings” contenido en el libro “Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire”, en el que se ofrecen una serie de entrevistas entre Chomsky y David Barsamian (con nuestro agradecimiento hacia la editorial, Metropolitan [...]