You might think oil and gas execs would hate the largest piece of climate legislation ever passed. But it actually gives them money that helps maintain their core business model.
Richard Smith argues that, regardless of President Xi Jinping’s stated intentions, China under its current governance cannot possibly meet its carbon-neutral pledge.
Bill Gates may want to find a solution to climate change but he seems far more devoted to maintaining the current system for as long as it is feasible.
Chomsky discusses proposals he believes would meet the needs of the poor and working classes while tackling the climate crisis.
"Big Oil is intentionally profiteering off the war in Ukraine," said one campaigner. "We need a Big Oil windfall profits tax."
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...
The get-rich-quick scheme, banned in China and elsewhere, is invading U.S. communities unchecked, posing as an “equalizing, democratizing” currency.
It’s not.
While the year 2020 saw numerous activist mobilizations, it was the police murder of George Floyd that instantly filled streets around the world with outraged protest. People marched, torched police stations, tore down statues, and confronted police...
Joe Biden and allies like Boris Johnson say they are leading the way on climate change – with the help of Bill Gates. Amy Leather explores if our rulers really are going green.
The 21st century is a century of crisis. Capitalist economic collapse dovetails with dire inequality, international and civil wars drive displacement and humanitarian catastrophe, xenophobia creeps into laws, and rising biodiversity loss imperils...
