What I Can Still Love About My Embattled Country (and World)
It’s time for all of us to take a deep breath and think about what we still truly care for and would defend about this land of ours, no matter…
Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us
It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one.
Tom Engelhardt: Life in This Literal Hell
There’s so much heat that we seem endlessly in the fires of this political moment. To top it off, our planet is already overheating not just politically or militarily, but…
The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage: Planet Earth
Michael Klare makes clear that the war in Ukraine is the last thing on Earth (so to speak) that we need right now.
Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion
The US and Russia, faded relics of the Cold War, unable to accept their terminal decline, launch futile and self-defeating wars to reclaim their lost imperial power.
Margaret Flowers: To Save the Planet, We Must End Instruments of Corporate Power
"Clearing the FOG" host Margaret Flowers speaks with Manuel Pérez-Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies about ousted Pakistani leader Imran Khan and how trade agreements function to force countries…
The US Military is Driving Environmental Collapse Across the Planet
The U.S. military emits more carbon than 140 countries combined, fueling climate change and environmental degradation. Below we examine five ways in which the Pentagon is destroying the environment.
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Chairman Greg Sarris on the Reincarnation of the American Indian
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, explores the urgent need for an American future rooted in indigenous knowledge.
What Will We Remember of 2022?
If you someday tell your grandchildren about this world of ours and what we’ve lived through, will the Pandemic of 2020-?? and the Climate Crisis of 1900-21?? be forgotten? I…
New Year’s Day 2050
The international community will, by mid-century, need to find new forms of collaboration to contain the damage wrought by climate catastrophe, writes Alfred W. McCoy.
December’s Tornadoes Show a Country Desperately in Need of Disaster Reform
You can't stop tornadoes, but you can stop them from being so deadly. Here's how.
A Tour Guide to Climate Hell on Earth
Jane Braxton Little, who was home in Greenville, California, when the Dixie fire swept through that Gold Rush-era town, reminds us that such disasters — and they are only going…
Ralph Nader on the Easiest Way to Harness Solar Energy
One use of solar has not received enough attention.
How to Save the World From a Climate Armageddon
If Beijing and Washington can’t reach some kind of serious agreement, we, our children, and our grandchildren are in trouble deep. We face a future all-too-literally embroiled in what, as…
A Hell of America’s Own Making
The Pentagon’s escalating dystopian scenarios, its fixation with being overstretched by climate crises and great power conflict to the point of collapse, and its more recent goal of reducing its…