Bring Us the Jobs of Enviro Sellouts!
[This callout has been syndicated here on HuffPo.] After America’s Veteran’s Day militarism hangover, I scanned what few trustworthy journalism outlets are left but still couldn’t avoid the headhunters. They […]
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Fukushima Calling
A year ago, the geothermal-rich Japan suffered an utterly predictable earthquake, tsunami and nuclear nightmare that is still currently unfurling in terrible ways.
Alan Moore On The Sixties, Superheroes, America, The Bible And Why Lost Sucked
“When the state started to take us seriously and initiated countermeasures, the majority of us folded like bitches.”
No Home Sweet Home: Five Years After Katrina
[Matt Pascarella] Four years ago, on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I sat with Patricia Thomas. Greg Palast and I had just helped her break into her home at […]
A Day Without a Shortstop
[Amy Bass, Morphizm] Five years ago, there was a crazy number of Jews playing for the Boston Red Sox. Or, well, three: Gabe Kapler, Kevin Youkilis, and Adam Stern. It […]
Ten Ways Mother Earth Will Strike Back
Welcome to our existential nightmare, from rising seas and runaway droughts and storms to the outer limits of dystopian catastrophes like the fart apocalypse.
Copenhagen: The Courage to Say No
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] On the ninth day of the Copenhagen climate summit, Africa was sacrificed. The position of the G-77 negotiating bloc, including African states, had been clear: a […]
Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s […]
Afghanistan By Hypnosis
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And […]
Expert Who Predicted Levee Break Fired
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] There’s another floater. Four years on, there’s another victim face down in the waters of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Ivor van Heerden. I don’t get to use the […]