Doomsday Clock Statement: 90 seconds to midnight 2023, A time of unprecedented danger
This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock...
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Russia and West on verge of ‘real war’
The current situation in Ukraine demonstrates that the conflict between Russia and the West can no longer be defined as a “hybrid...
read more94% Of Forest-Based Carbon Offsets Certified By Leading Global Provider Are ‘Phantom Credits’
Are carbon offsets a useful tool on the road to net zero or simply another form of greenwashing?A new investigation from The...
read moreAlert: Biden says U.S. would defend Taiwan against Chinese invasion
Some observers say the remarks contradict a long-standing preference from U.S. administrations for ambiguity on the issue of...
read moreIt Didn’t Start With Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
Since the 1950s, the GOP has repeatedly mined fear, resentment, prejudice, and grievance and played to extremist forces so the party...
read moreIs Cold War Between the United States and China Inevitable?
A new biography of George Kennan, the father of containment, raises questions about whether the old Cold War—and the emerging...
read moreFukushima: Don’t dump on us
Pacific Islanders, marine scientists, urge Japan not to dump Fukushima radioactive water into ocean
read moreKing Advocated Disobeying Unjust Laws
Dr. King believed that society has a responsibility to disobey unjust laws. And right now in America, we have become the land of...
read moreChecking In With Joseph Stiglitz on the State of Inequality
The Nobel Prize-winning economist calls for a global tax on high earners at 70% and a 2-3% wealth tax on large fortunes to combat...
read moreBiden 2024 Decision Pits the Party’s Elites Against Most Democrats
Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden’s shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable over...
read moreThe Pentagon’s Version of the World Is Not the World
Now, the Department of Defense has delivered another massive intelligence failure, this time on China’s future threat to American...
read moreHow the Israeli Right-Wing Settler Movement Normalized IDF Drone Warfare in the Occupied West Bank, Gaza
Whether armed or not, drones function as a form of psychological terror for those living underneath them.
read moreThis Is Absurd. The Debt Ceiling Must Be Abolished
Given the hostage threats by Republicans, it is obvious that the U.S. should join the vast majority of rich countries around the...
read moreThree weeks and 39 mass shootings. This is America in 2023.
Communities from Goshen, California, to Baltimore, Maryland, are reeling while others brace for the possibility of such violence in...
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