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- Canada's emissions deceptionA new report from Ottawa claims Canada is reducing emissions, but there is much less here than meets the eye. The feds have lowered their targets and changed the reporting rules, and are claiming credit for changes that haven’t been made.---READ-->>
- Philippines: Urban poor urgently need aid after devastating floodMassive flooding devastates Manila slums .Another painful reminder that the pain caused by climate change is being felt most by the poor and most oppressed.---READ-->>
- James Hansen: Climate change has arrived, and it’s worse than predictedThe leading U.S. climate expert says recent extreme weather events were definitely caused by climate change — and such events will become even more frequent and more severe.---READ-->>
- Asian social movements:Regain momentum in the fight against climate changeMeeting in Bangkok, August 31 to plan action. We need to act and act swiftly. We need regain our momentum and defeat the system by targeting the source. We need to unify our struggles to succeed in our fight for our future.---READ-->>
- First Nations unite in tar sands healing walkHundreds 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.---READ-->>
- Food production and nature: The deadly paradox of a class-riven societyA 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.---READ-->>
- I don't believe in charityEdward Galeano on solidarity …---READ-->>
- Algonquin resistance forces Quebec to stop illegal loggingDirect 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---READ-->>
- Packed Toronto meeting discusses action plans for environmental justiceAttendance at a Toronto meeting on Tar Sands and Environmental Justice greatly exceeded expectations.---READ-->>
- 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 misunderstands both society and biology.---READ-->>
- Climate change underlies growing violence in NigeriaThe 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.---READ-->>
- 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---READ-->>
- Shocked and appalledPart of the price one pays for being an editor is having to read occasional letters from crackpots.---READ-->>
- 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.”---READ-->>
- Food plan will feed corporate hungerContrary to Australian government claims, the proposed food plan is a recipe for increasing vulnerability, lack of resilience and heightened inequality in our food system.---READ-->>
- Enbridge, illustratedGas or bitumen or … (oops!)---READ-->>
- McKibben's climate math is too narrow and too broadMcKibben is right to point to the fossil fuel industry as an enemy, but his argument is both too narrow and too broad. He ignores the role of the U.S. military, and fails to focus his fire on the dirtiest fuels.---READ-->>
- Urgent action needed to stop torture of Pakistan climate change prisonersBaba Jan and Iftikhar Hussain are being held and tortured by Pakistan police, for the crime of aiding flood-stricken farmers. Your solidarity with these brave political prisoners of the global climate change crisis is urgently needed now.---READ-->>
- Video: "What is socialism?" in 100 secondsParticipants in the July 2012 national conference of the Australian youth organization Resistance explain what socialism means to them---READ-->>
- We can't put a price on natureThe executive director of Food & Water Watch says advocates of the ‘green economy’ are promoting the same old dirty economy under a new banner---READ-->>