Study Finds Climate Change Already Impacts 85% of the World’s Population
According to new research at least 85% of the global population is already confronted with the effects of climate change. (Image Credit: Tsiory Andriantsoarana) …
According to new research at least 85% of the global population is already confronted with the effects of climate change. (Image Credit: Tsiory Andriantsoarana) …
Even many of the intellectuals of the ruling class see the reality – their system offers no future! …
It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since …
Vaccination is an effective measure against disease, but we should not blame the unvaccinated for the government’s response to the pandemic. …
Since September 16th, carpenters in Seattle have been on strike for better pay, benefits and working conditions while voting down four previous tentative agreements. …
This system continues to tear apart the earth, brutalize Indigenous people’s lives and destroy their lands for profit. The struggle of Native peoples is a struggle against a system that threatens all life on this planet. It is all of our fight too. …
More than one month after Hurricane Ida rampaged from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, the trail of destruction and its effects on people’s lives is still visible for all to see. …
Over 700 stationary engineers have been on strike since September 18 at Kaiser Permanente Northern California facilities. …
Facebook has known about the disastrous effects they’ve had on young girls’ mental health, misinformation, and other nefarious things. They’ve known, yet done nothing. …
Tackling the issue of climate change is the most urgent and pressing issue facing all of humanity around the world. Why shouldn’t all of our contributions be brought to the table, especially those on the frontlines who face the most immediate consequences? …
On Sunday, one of the largest oil spills in California’s recent history spread onto beaches, damaging wetlands and killing wildlife. …
On October 2, in over 600 protests, thousands of people gathered across all 50 states in the U.S. to defend abortion access. …
The Pandora Papers reveal the shady things that world leaders do to protect the wealth of the wealthy. This is hardly a surprise. …
According to FBI data, the US saw the largest increase during 2020 since record-keeping began in 1960. …
Workers in France are striking against the privatization of the public transit system. …
The current budget fight in Congress is offering up a perfect opportunity for industries to call in favors and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia who owns millions in coal stocks has been tapped to re-write the climate portion of the budget bill. …
The exotic animal hunting industry is huge, particularly in rural parts of west Texas where expansive ranches exist for tourists to come hunt exotic animals in captivity. …
The 22 species recently declared extinct and predicted future extinctions are flashing red warning signs that humans and our Earth are facing an unprecedented ecological and biological catastrophe. …
Women and their allies all over the U.S. are out in the streets on October 2 to defend that right. We won this right before and to keep it we will need to fight for it again today! …
Last Friday, young people took to the streets for the first global Fridays for Future climate strike of 2021. …
Deaths from opioid overdoses have increased in the United States as people face psychological distress from the unmitigated pandemic. …
This is a repost of an article from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, published on September …
Biden’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly discussed some of the world’s most urgent problems, but presented no actual solutions. …
Politicians in Congress are playing games with the debt ceiling, but it is the working people who will suffer the consequences. …
Six weeks into the school year, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. …
In Raj Patel’s latest book and Rupa Marya’s debut title, “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the …
The problems of the for-profit healthcare system existed before COVID. COVID demonstrated just how broken the system is. …
On Wednesday President Biden announced new plans to help the global vaccination effort, saying now is not the time for “half-measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big and we need to do our part.” This is an ironic statement, considering the U.S.’s repeated lack of commitment to the measures that would be needed to end this global pandemic. …
The waves of migrants coming to the U.S. southern border is a sign that capitalism is not working for people. throughout the world. And Democratic and Republican politicians continue to carry out the same policies at the border. Both parties represent the same economic system, which benefits from racism deeply entrenched in American society and in our world, dividing working people by race and nationality while our real enemies are the bosses who exploit us all. …
The Republican-led recall election in California was a huge waste of time and money, and Californians were right to reject it – but that is not the same as an endorsement of Newsom. …
The giant Chinese real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt, which could have huge shockwaves around the world. …
On September 14, the number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States reached 663,913, the equivalent of 1 in 500 Americans. …
Companies that make test kits can charge what they want and get fat off this health disaster, even if it means most people won’t have access to the care they need. …
Due the extreme drought, across creeks in Northern California lay rotting carcasses of the Chinook salmon, a fish that historically would rest for weeks in these waters after completing their upstream journey. …
Ten years ago, on September 17, a movement calling itself Occupy emerged on the streets …
Even in the face of an existential crisis for humanity, the Democrats are still unable to challenge the fossil fuel interests that dominate our global economy. …
Despite the hype or the doomsday predictions, let’s not believe that Biden is really trying to take on the rich to benefit us. …
This is an article written by the Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party), a Trotskyist organization in …
After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women are not simply sitting back and watching as their rights get swept away from them. No, they are fighting back. …
The past 20 years has meant not a U.S. war against terrorists, but an endless war of U.S. terror, carried out all over the world. …
While the cultural and entertainment center of New Orleans was saved from deadly storm surges, the same cannot be said for the rest of Louisiana’s coast. …
In September, angry workers have gone on strike in several bus stations in Ile-de-France (the area surrounding Paris). …
This is the capitalist system – highest efficiency and ingenuity when the goal is invading and committing murder in other countries, but unable to provide basic necessities, housing, utilities, education, healthcare and safety for its own population. The problems that we face having nothing to do with what is and isn’t “possible.” They have everything to do with this system’s priorities. …
If the district is going to provide every school the safety measures being demanded, it’s going to be because they were fought for. …
September 9, 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. …
Environmental activist Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to 8 years in prison as a “terrorist” for sabotaging the Dakota Access pipeline. …
The western United States is experiencing extreme droughts while the capitalist system exacerbates climate change. …
A week before the fateful date, the conditions for back to school were still unclear. Schools are now back in session. …
Texas has passed a law banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, the most restrictive law of its kind in the United States. …
With disasters like Hurricane Ida, we can now see the outlines of our future if we allow the world to continue as it is – and it’s terrifying… …
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