The demands of the movement against BP are clear: the oil company should be put on trial for the environmental devastation it has caused and forced to pay for the entire clean-up operation. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to...
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BP and Obama: A Disaster Foretold
U.S. regulators allowed BP to operate with lower safety standards than is required in the North Sea, and about the same kind of regulatory regime as is asked for by the government of Nigeria in its Delta. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
Big Oil: From Nigeria to the Gulf of Mexico
We’re in a death spiral of industrial calamities that are all for the sake of producing petroleum products that will, in turn, create another set of appalling calamities called man made climate change. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
Declaration of the US Ecojustice People’s Movement Assembly
“We support the conclusion that only by “living well,” in harmony with each other and with Mother Earth, rather than “living better,” based on an economic system of unlimited growth, dominance and exploitation, will the people of this planet not only survive but thrive.” Share:Click to...
Guatemala: Canadian-owned mine suspended for human rights violations, health hazards
Indigenous anti-mine activists face death threats Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Pocket (Opens in new...
A Mistaken Criticism of Cochabamba
International Viewpoint, the “English-language magazine of the Fourth International,” recently published a criticism of the Peoples Agreement adopted by the World People’s Conference on Climate Change held in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April. This article, by Australian Socialist...
Food crisis: causes, consequences and alternatives
Governments and international institutions have become accomplices, when not co-profiteers, in a productivist, unsustainable and privatized food system.
Failure and fraud at UN climate talks
Bonn meeting opts for inadequate voluntary targets, big loopholes, and market scams Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to...
Greenwashing the Pentagon
The Pentagon must be the central focus of efforts to protect the biosphere by challenging war and militarism. More than ever, humanity—and Mother Earth—can no long afford them. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Daniel Dorling: What the ruling class believes
[Quotes and Insights #9] From Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, by Daniel Dorling The five tenets of injustice are that: elitism is efficient, exclusion is necessary, prejudice is natural, greed is good and despair is inevitable. Because of widespread and growing opposition to the five key...