Environment

If we want to have a meaningful impact on climate change we will have to confront agribusiness, which spends more on lobbying in the United States than even defense lobbyists. Read the original story at…

The ‘remarkable’ return of forests in Costa Rica followed the eliminating of cattle subsidies and payments for improving nature. Read more at The Guardian.

Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control “Electric power is a critical function in everyday life, and we can’t go without it,” Democratic Socialists tell In These Times. “Yet, it’s controlled by a private monopoly,…

A new Center for American Progress report says the federal government’s agenda in Alaska amounts to “one of the most brazen public land liquidation efforts in U.S. history.” Read the original article at Huffington Post.

Given the relative success of Amtrak, why hasn’t Greyhound been nationalized, too? Read the story at In These Times.

Rallies are planned across the planet to turn up political heat and demand action. Read the story at Common Dreams.

. . . say miners rooting for a Green New Deal. In Cumberland Kentucky, coal miners are occupying the train tracks in order to prevent coal from leaving the mine where they worked. Julia Conley…

Plan will create 20 million jobs and completely zero out planet-heating emissions by 2050. Read the story at the Huffington Post.

Every year the U.S. political system reflexively funds a world-dominating defense budget that directly benefits the oil industry, client states and the entire hydrocarbon-based economy. Read the article at TruthOut.