Hundreds from across North America gather in Alberta to raise awareness. Delegations from British Columbia and Ontario join to show growing concern and resolve against tar sands infrastructure projects across Canada.
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Food production and nature: The deadly paradox of a class-riven society
A continent-wide drought is devastating crop production in North America, contributing to a global food crisis that is manufactured by the laws of capitalism, not the laws of nature.
I don't believe in charity
Edward Galeano on solidarity ...
Algonquin resistance forces Quebec to stop illegal logging
Direct action and public solidarity have forced the Quebec government and a major lumber company to stop illegal logging the lands of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake
Packed Toronto meeting discusses action plans for environmental justice
Attendance at a Toronto meeting on Tar Sands and Environmental Justice greatly exceeded expectations.
Is human behavior controlled by our genes? Richard Levins reviews ‘The Social Conquest of Earth’
Noted biologist E.O. Wilson argues that human traits such as aggression, racism, hierarchy, and gender bias are controlled by our genes. In this exclusive review of Wilson's latest book, the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist discusses why an analyses that ignores class fundamentally...
Climate change underlies growing violence in Nigeria
The southward expansion of the Sahara has devastating socio-economic impacts for those living in its path. As desertification intensifies conflicts are likely to increase across West Africa.
A population bomber is outraged
“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” -Bertrand Russell
Shocked and appalled
Part of the price one pays for being an editor is having to read occasional letters from crackpots.
Get the frack out of here!
Hydraulic fracturing, sure, it's making you a buck, While the rest of us get sick and die and you just say “tough luck.”