By Stan Cox, TomDispatch
Like the brave women in Cedar Rapids, we must neither surrender the public square to the extremists nor allow them to bestow rights on vehicles and fossil fuels while revoking rights that belong to us and to the rest of nature.
By Tegan Tallulah, The Climate Lemon
You know what? The one thing that scares me more than the thought of a not-so-distant future of climate breakdown, is a future where the far-right dominate our society’s response to climate breakdown.
By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus
With the longstanding liberal-conservative status quo now crumbling, the new right has not only taken up this call, it is putting it into practice. This construction of “another world” — an intolerant, anti-democratic, unsustainable world — can be stopped before it is too late. But it requires that the best of us regain the conviction that Yeats described — not just to counter the new right, but to save the planet from ruin.
By Basav Sen, Foreign Policy In Focus
From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations.