It’s yet another false techno-“solution,” and like so many others NOT a viable alternative to our fossil fuel-dependent energy infrastructure. In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Area’s Lawrence Livermore...
“Anything we can actually do, we can afford.” — John Maynard Keynes How to create the political backing for the international effort necessary to achieve a fair and rapid global climate transition, even though that support would be...
Inflation has been rising since mid-2020, with the level of average prices going up at a faster rate than it has since the early 1980s. In January 2022 prices had increased by 7.5 percent compared to prices in January 2021. It now looks like the U.S...
In a real sense, under capitalism, all workers are precarious, meaning that they can be downsized, replaced, deskilled, outsourced, and so on. It’s simply a matter of degree. The latest peak in precarity is “gig work,” which has always existed; the...
With an organizational dearth and in a context dominated by misguided and/or haphazard politics by the mainstream left, what can be done?
Since the end of the feudal era the world order has been largely structured by the nation-state system. Individuals have been willing to kill and die for their countries. The pursuit of individual and collective interests has occurred largely within...
COP26 was another epic failure, but planted seeds of growth for our movement.
An ecologist, engineer, and science writer, Spencer Roberts exposes corporate science propaganda and greenwashing. His degrees from University of Colorado Boulder are in ecology & evolution and in atmospheric & ocean science. Several of his...
The founding director of WikiLeaks and many whistleblowers and journalists are sacrificing so much to expose the crimes of capitalism and government colluders. We owe it to them — and our own future — to keep them going. Watch the Belmarsh Tribunal...
Do the promise and hype add up to a viable alternative?
