Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to reporting that before a tornado destroyed their factory, Mayfield candle factory workers were told they would be fired if they left work.
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the deadly tornadoes that went across five states and left at least 100 people dead including Amazon workers trapped in a warehouse
Team Rising weighs in on the response to the devastating tornadoes that ripped through the Midwest.
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish The journalist returns to the Dishcast for an update on the pandemic and the recent climate conference. The Covid news keeps coming, and I wanted to understand it better, especially as Omicron makes its way across the Atlantic, and as vaccine effectiveness declines. […]
A debate between Alfred McCoy and Peter Zeihan on China, or between McCoy and Bjorn Lomborg on the climate, would be interesting. On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the decline of the American empire and the new global order with Professor Alfred McCoy, who holds the Harrington Chair […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s the end of the world as we know it and the rich feel fine. In fact, those greedy motherfuckers have never seemed better. The ozone layer is evaporating, the oceans are rising, and the plague just keeps […]
By Bonnie Kristian, Brigid Kennedy The Week At least 51 people, including several rescue workers, have died following a suspected methane-gas explosion at a Siberian coal mine on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reports. Most of the approximate 285 people working in the Listvazhnaya mine were able to […]
By Lauren Frayer, National Public Radio NASHIK, India — India’s Supreme Court is calling for a lockdown in the capital, New Delhi. It’s because of a health emergency, but it’s not about COVID-19. It’s about air pollution. At a hearing Monday, justices ordered authorities to halt all nonessential […]
By Hidde Boersma and Maarten Boudry Quillette “The world is flat,” proclaimed economist Thomas Friedman in his 2005 book of the same title. And since then, the world has flattened further still. Not only has a contagious fragment of RNA ravaged every corner of the world, but so […]
Pelosi: “Oh, I’ve never considered that, but because I’m and old bag full of hubris, I’m going to speak for a minute and pretend that we have anyway… In fact it was a mean question, you mean, mean woman! Who let her in?!”
By Peter R. Quiñones They can really only take COVID so far. Yes, there will be people who are going to initiate their children into the “Cult of Covid,” meaning, we will see them wearing Red masks and keeping to themselves with their heads down and mumbling about […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Obama’s comments at COP26 in Glasgow, and react to protests taking place in Poland over a restrictive abortion law.
By Joel Kotkin Like its global predecessors, the COP26 Glasgow conference will usher in a new wave of apocalyptic warnings about climate change. It will also likely prove no more successful, in terms of actually addressing the issue, than its predecessors, particularly as China, India and other developing […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) went after proponents of the Green New Deal and the Biden administration during Wednesday’s press conference on American energy independence, the climate, and oil and gas.
by Don Fitz As climate change leads humanity’s march to Armageddon, data surfacing during late 2021 suggests that the march could be much briefer than previously thought. “Nature is starting to emit greenhouse gases in competition with cars, planes, trains, and factories,” asserts Robert Hunziker. The Amazon has […]
By Joel Kotkin Few things in life are as predictable as the rhetoric of climate change summits like this coming week’s in Glasgow. Over the next week, you will hear again and again that the planet is dying and that climate change will cause mass dislocations and starvation. […]
Todd Lewis joined with Swithun Dobson and Keith Preston to discuss the feasibility of Green Energy
By Andrew Sullivan We need both parties to prevent environmental catastrophe. Here’s how we do it. Politics is downstream of culture. Change the culture and (sooner or later) you change the politics. But some political issues have such hefty cultural baggage, it’s incredibly hard to shift the politics. […]
by Don Fitz It is time to take action against corporate methods of agriculture which poison the food our families eat, threaten the survival of soil ecosystems, destroy the livelihood of farmers, crush farmworker organizing efforts and subjugate entire countries. Here are a few of the many ways […]
Tom Woods Show Author Björn Lomborg joins me to discuss the problems with climate-change propagandists who have a massive chunk of the world’s population convinced that literal human extinction is sure to occur because of rising temperatures. READ MORE
Krystal and Saagar discuss the ongoing feud between Senators Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin on the issue of climate change and the proposals Sanders put in the budget reconciliation bill
By Gérard Bökenkamp TELOS From the very start of the pandemic, corona and climate change have always been mentioned in the same breath. Indeed, the parallels are unmistakable. In both cases it is a matter of invisible threats from natural phenomena. In both cases, the discussion is shaped […]
I started noticing this trend 30 years ago. By Paul Kingsworth, Unherd The Green movement will become an all-consuming empire. The numbers were in, and everybody could see what was coming: at least ten billion human souls by the end of the century. All of us clamouring for […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave break down the latest developments on the oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach, California.
Krystal and Saagar go through the details of an oil spill in Orange County, CA that might have been mismanaged by government officials and the little media coverage surrounding it
By Evan Malmgreen, The Nation To the west of the northern Nevada town of Orovada (population 155), State Route 293 cuts onto public lands near Thacker Pass, a section of high desert in the caldera of an extinct super-volcano. Around mile marker 20, an unassuming dirt road detours […]
ByJulia Jacobo ABC News Children and young people around the world are experiencing increasing anxiety over the fate of the planet — specifically climate change and how lawmakers are handling the looming crisis, according to new research. Scientists who surveyed 10,000 young people, ages 16 to 25, across […]
Former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Greg Jaczko, explains why U.S. nuclear programs are not up to par in fighting climate change.
Ryan Grim makes the case against investing more in nuclear energy.
Bookchin’s classic is available online. By Murray Bookchin This book stands on its own ground and projects a coherent theory of social ecology that is independent of the conventional wisdom of our time. But we all stand on the shoulders of others if only in terms of the […]
When I founded Attack the System over 20 years ago, my objective was to lay the blueprint for an insurgent anarchist movement in North America that could eventually take down the US regime and ruling class, in solidarity with those under attack by US imperialism in each of […]
by Don Fitz [This is the final part of an exchange between Robert Pollin and Don Fitz carried in Green Social Thought (GST) and ZNet. The first portion consisted of two articles by Pollin which originally appeared in Truthout on 7/3/21 and 6/10/21. The second portion was a […]
by Robert Pollin [This is the third part of an exchange between Robert Pollin and Don Fitz carried in Green Social Thought (GST) and ZNet. The first portion consisted of two articles by Pollin which originally appeared in Truthout on 7/3/21 and 6/10/21. The second portion was a […]
by Don Fitz [This is the second part of an exchange between Robert Pollin and Don Fitz carried in Green Social Thought and ZNet. The first portion consisted of two articles by Pollin which originally appeared in Truthout here and here. The third portion will be a short […]
Interviews conducted by C.J. Polychroniou Interviews originally appeared in Truthout: An overview perspective on a global Green New Deal vs. degrowth perspectives as climate stabilization programs. Discussion of a specific Green New Deal program for California. [This is the first part of an exchange between Robert Pollin and […]
Protestor Quiiroi Co details ongoing resistance to the construction of the Line 3 pipeline slated for construction in Minnesota.
Ryan Grim breaks down the fight between indigenous communities in Minnesota and the corporation attempting to build a tar sands pipeline through their land.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah break down how the pandemic and climate change could create a major housing crisis.
Krystal and Saagar go over the devastation being brought to Louisiana by the historically powerful Hurricane Ida on the 16th anniversary of Katrina
By Alexander Zaitchik New Republic In July 1979, shortly after installing a set of solar panels over the West Wing, Jimmy Carter did something peculiar for a peacetime president. He asked Americans to sacrifice: to consume less, take public transit more, value community over material things, and buy bonds to fund […]
Krystal and Saagar alert viewers to the newest crisis in Haiti stemming from a huge earthquake and upcoming tropical storm.
His story dealing with Chevron’s ruthless legal team and the damage they wreaked upon South America.
David Sirota, founder of The Daily Poster, discusses the financial motivations behind the seven Democratic lawmakers who voted to pass a GOP amendment prohibiting the government from banning fracking.
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied […]
Krystal offers her perspective on why the best possible legislation from Democrats will not be enough to prevent climate disaster.
Krystal and guest host Kyle Kulinski bring on David Sirota to re-evaluate the legacy of Barack Obama on climate change and more.
Krystal and guest host Kyle Kulinski look at the newest climate report that delivers a bleak outlook on Earth’s future.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to the UN’s new report on climate.
Co-host and correspondent for KQED’s The California Report, Lily Jamali, discusses the devastating wildfires on the West Coast.
Reporter, Lily Jamali, details the response to the expanding Dixie Wildfire in California.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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