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Nuclear weapons spending has risen to an all-time high

US police have long recruited military veterans with conditions that make them prone to violence and aggression. The problem is even worse when it comes to ICE, whose leaders valorize brutality and allow officers to kill with impunity.

People sometimes point to individual consumption to argue that the US is better off than Western Europe. But this comparison neglects how much more unequal the US is and how much more money we burn in our irrational private health care system.

It is a tough time to be in South Africa trying to keep the lights on. Across the country, households...

The post Changes to Our Power: What South Africa’s New Electricity Pricing Reforms Mean for Us appeared first on 350.

By the end of 2026 and the beginning of 2027, the Ukrainian people will once again face, for the fifth time, the terrible prospect of another winter at war Despite everything, the Ukrainian people continue to resist, both on the front line and on the home front. They continue to defend their sovereignty and their … Continue reading International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine announced for November

The answer to union contracts being voted down is not for organizers to lower workers’ expectations. It’s to seize that vote as an opportunity to organize those expectations into collective power.

The 2026 Industrial Worker Summer issue is now available for download! Read or print it now at your leisure. This is a 5.5 by 8.5 inch booklet.

The short-term load demands that will be placed on the electrical grid over the next four years will be unprecedented. After several decades of near zero load demand growth, the system is about to see an energy shock akin to the oil crisis of the 1970s. Unprecedented Load Demand Growth In combination, the added load …

Continue reading "How AI Will Revolutionize the Way We Use Electricity"

In the 1800s, many American families were farmers. Think Little House on the Prairie or some other scenario that is vastly different from your current life. Farm work was all about getting the ground ready for seeds, putting seeds in the ground, and hoping to harvest enough for the winter. If you had a mule …

Continue reading "Solar Sal and the 200th Anniversary of the Erie Canal"

In 2000, the National Academy of Engineering named mass electrification and automobility as the first and second greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century.1 Now, a quarter century later, the two are converging through electric vehicles (EVs). However, many developments have been met with resistance. EVs are giant batteries on wheels. They could smooth out …

Continue reading "EVs and the Grid: Supporting Resilience, or Driving Defection?"

Californians are paying the second-highest residential electricity rates in the Country, and a popular explanation — that rooftop solar customers are shifting costs onto everyone else — has it backwards.1 Bundled average rates in PG&E’s service territory rose from roughly $0.24 per kWh in 2018 to $0.37 per kWh in 2024 in real USD — …

Continue reading "What Is Really Driving California’s Electricity Bills?"

WEBINAR: Thursday, August 20 at 12:00pm EDT Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline and proposed tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac threaten the Great Lakes, while primarily serving Canada. In July, the Tribal and environmental coalition earned a significant victory when the Michigan Supreme Court vacated a required state permit for the tunnel project. Meanwhile, additional state... Read more »

The post Live webinar: A Deep Dive on Line 5 appeared first on Flow Water Advocates.

We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.

Forty-five years ago, Inprecor showed that Iran’s theocracy is neither anti-imperialist nor an ally.

By Macy Brigham-Hill, DC Campaign Intern, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Growing up in the Nation’s Capitol, I spent my summers climbing trees, exploring Rock Creek Park, playing sports, going to the Zoo, camps and playgrounds, and spending almost all of my time outside. Today, those summers are being reshaped by extreme heat. Heat advisories, cancellations, […]

The post DC Summers Are Getting More Extreme and Expensive – Who’s Responsible? appeared first on Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

Yanis Varoufakis has called Big Tech’s overweening power to shape the modern economy “technofeudalism.” Writing for Jacobin, he argues that this isn’t a moral critique but one based in the dynamic of capital accumulation today.

“Belo Sun has an established pattern of making questionable statements to investors about the standing of its mega-mine, both concerning its legal standing and level of standing with affected communities.”

The post Belo Sun’s Reported “Legal Victory” Does Not Resolve Key Disputes Over Amazonian Gold Project first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Centrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. But it was the Democratic Party machine itself that spent decades cultivating a depoliticized electorate.

US governments have long relied on Mexico as a southern gendarme, even as it proudly declares its sovereignty. Faced with Trumpian imperialism, the challenge for Claudia Sheinbaum’s government is to make that independence more real.

The Democratic establishment’s hysteria over the Democratic Socialists of America’s organizing methods has it exactly backward: the Democratic Party has almost no ability to democratically organize voters, while DSA is reviving grassroots campaigning.