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Sandy, climate change, and media hot air
While BusinessWeek points at global warming, the usual crowd of deniers and pseudo-skeptics is once again promoting doubt.
East and west, monster storms mainly kill the poor
In every country, the ravages of climate change fall overwhelming on the poor. The people who grow the world's food are the ones who starve in the aftermath of hurricanes and typhoons
Corporations steal farmland while farmers starve
Most land grabs occur in the world’s most food-insecure countries. Profit-driven agriculture means more food for the wealthy and well-fed, and less for the poor and hungry
How to fight climate change and rebuild a stricken city
Real answers will only come from the people, when we manage to organize and fight for the things we need through a radical change in social power
Maps pictured Sandy's devastation – five years ago
Maps published in 2007 provide an uncanny prediction of what transpired Monday night
Environmental journal editors reply to publisher
We regard all of these statements by Sage to be untruths, either deliberate falsehoods or grossly misleading. Sage is putting its own profits before academic freedom.
50 years of Silent Spring
Silent Spring helped lay the basis for a radical ecological critique of capitalism. Half a century after first publication it's a book that has never been so important.
Frankenstorms, infrastructure, and billionnaire condos
Sandy causes a minor housing problem for the ultra-rich
A reactionary 'skeptic' takes his best shot … and misses
Britain's leading Conservative newspaper fires a feeble broadside at Climate & Capitalism
Frankenstorms and climate change: How the 1% created a monster
To slow the monster of runaway, fossil-fueled capitalism that is creating Frankenstorms and much more ecological and social devastation, we need a vision for a completely different social system.
Inequality by the numbers
Fewer than 1% of adults own 70% of all wealth
Stop the dash for gas! Activists shut UK power plant
"This action is in defence of the global commons, which are under sustained attack by polluting fossil fuel companies"
The very definition of oil industry madness
Northern Gateway plan: ship oil through an active earthquake zone
Tar sands come to Ontario: No Line 9!
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Video: Exposing the REDD hoax
The UN promotes a perverse and potentially genocidal forest offset scam
Feminism and the global fight for food sovereignty
Although La Via Campesina was initially formed and led by men, rural women have dramatically increased their participation in all levels and activities of the global peasant organization. A feminist perspective has emerged as a fundamental component...
Stop land grabbing for agribusiness in Mozambique
National Peasants Union: "We vehemently condemn any initiative which aims to resettle communities and expropriate the land of peasants to give way to mega farming projects for monocrop production"
Bolivia condemns UN's pro-market biodiversity policy
Diego Pacheco, head of the Bolivian delegation to CBD: "Everything connected with nature is being commodified, putting at risk the livelihoods of indigenous and local people, and of the common goods."
Thousands rally against B.C. pipelines
"One thing I can say right off the bat is: we're winning..."