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The real choice is not between globalization and deglobalization, free trade and tariff walls, but between empowering capital and empowering workers.

The Mecca Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan is a response to insecurity and waning American power in the region. The question is whether the new security order will produce more violence rather than less.

Washington has spent 64 years trying to kill Cuba’s economy. The numbers say it worked — and that Moscow’s subsidies only postponed the reckoning.

Having long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first, Europe’s far-right parties are now slavishly supporting the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have turned out to be the real defenders of sovereignty.

Burkina Faso’s military leader has styled himself as the political heir to Thomas Sankara. However, the substance of Traoré’s record since taking power in 2022 is much less ambitious than Sankara’s agenda as president in the 1980s.

September 9, 2026 Traverse City, Mich. — Today, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and her administration issued a consequential new statement on Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 pipeline tunnel through the Straits of Mackinac, telling the Canadian company that it’s time to pull back from its tunnel plan that will put the Great Lakes at risk for... Read more »

The post Gov. Whitmer to Enbridge: The tunnel game is up; it’s time for a new solution appeared first on Flow Water Advocates.

What does the Pacific Ocean have to do with the electricity you need to charge your phone? Quite a lot,...

The post Can South Africa’s Electricity System Weather What’s Coming? appeared first on 350.

New York City is getting hotter, and for some residents, staying cool can be a matter of life and death. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has declared at least three heat emergencies this summer, some lasting more than two days and the city’s latest heat mortality report estimates that around 500 people die prematurely from heat every […]

In July, the Trump administration relegated endangered leatherback turtles, sea lions and whales to mere collateral damage in its race to profit from the oceans. Now, fisheries science is in the government’s crosshairs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced new agency priorities last week that they say are a commitment to “cutting bureaucracy, […]

Arms in the Liberated Areas, a Ceasefire in Chiang's Rear

Postscript: a reply from the Spartacists, and an answer

Hours after President Donald Trump predicted on Truth Social that oil prices would fall precipitously once the United States wins its war with Iran, strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure by Iranian-backed Houthis Tuesday caused global oil prices to spike to nearly $100 per barrel. The latest runup, bringing the global crude price up 33 […]

Tyson abruptly shut down its plant in Joslin, Illinois, last month, throwing 2,500 mostly immigrant workers out of work. Consolidation across the beef and grocery industries may be driving a wave of meatpacking job losses.

At the end of August, devastating floods and a debris flow triggered by a glacier collapse crashed through the valleys of Nepal, killing more than 1,300 people. Earlier this summer, deadly heat waves plagued much of the United States and Europe. Meanwhile, record-low snow levels and a long-term drought stoked wildfires across the western U.S. […]

Left-wing dismissals and establishment celebrations both have Gloria Steinem wrong.

“We cannot afford to abandon our struggle. For now, we need clean water, but we will keep fighting to heal the rivers and secure alternative livelihoods for our community.”

The post Capirona Sings for Its Rivers first appeared on Amazon Watch.

by Robert Jensen

Berry didn’t exempt himself from this critique of the destructive habits that draw down the ecological capital of the planet: "I am … still in bondage to the automobile industry and the energy companies, which have nothing to recommend them except our dependence on them. I still fly on airplanes, which have nothing to recommend them but speed; they are inconvenient, uncomfortable, undependable, ugly, stinky, and scary. I still cut my wood with a chainsaw, which has nothing to recommend it but speed, and has all the faults of an airplane, except it does not fly."