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The Anthropocene defined — geologically. I speak with Jan Zalasiewicz about the history and work of the Anthropocene Working Group. Zalasiewicz was its first chair.
The connections between America’s permanent war economy, its military-industrial complex and climate system breakdown are the subject of a campaign by US-antiwar group CODEPINK. The GPM talks about militarism and Earth’s rising climate crisis with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin.
Dimitri Lascaris is a Canadian lawyer, journalist and human rights activist. He recently returned from a one-month trip to Russia and Crimea, aiming to learn how Russians see the conflict.
A year after the US Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade, the GPM speaks about abortion rights with Lauren MacIvor Thompson, a historian of early-twentieth-century women’s rights and public health.
With Spring just begun in the northern hemisphere, wildfires now spread from British Columbia across to the Canadian province of Alberta, and across Central and eastern Russia, a leading European climate agency reports. The GPM speaks with Greenpeace energy strategist Keith Stewart.
For people sweltering in Earth’s rising heat, driven from their homes by wildfire, swept away by rising floods or impoverished by drought, numbers don’t adequately capture the misery Earth’s human-made climate crisis is dishing out.
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The Earth Chronicles — Trees & Earth. Something I produced back in 1993. Still makes sense.
Drug-resistant infections – the new pandemic? And, a tangled network of tiny tubes, pulsating beneath our feet. Fungal networks below ground sustain life above.
In seven days Donald Trump will be President of the United States. Among the most tantalizing prospects for this new epoch: the radical transformation of US policy on Israel and Palestine.
In international relations, it’s the law of the jungle. The five most powerful countries on Earth get to pick and choose which international laws they’ll abide by, doling out slices of impunity to allies and clients.
Israel plays a host of key roles in today’s troubled world: Jewish homeland. Bastion of peace and democracy in the troubled Middle East. Clever “start-up nation” the world can turn to for smart solutions. Israeli-American activist Jeff Halper pinpoints a darker niche.
Physical abuse, assassination, bribery, the use of human shields, looting … These are among the acts former Israeli soldiers describe to Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence in the course of interviews about their service in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Israel-USA’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its 21st month. The most influential Western states wring their hands and mouth empty words about peace, while continuing to sell weapons to Israel. And they refuse to name Israel’s crimes. British legal scholar Penny Green talks about this, and about an innovative Israel combat aim: creating a population of disabled people.
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Israel-USA’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its 21st month. The most influential Western states wring their hands, mouth empty words about peace, and continue to sell weapons to Israel. At a People’s Tribunal, late last month, a pair of doctors described what they witnessed at Gaza’s hospitals — all but destroyed by US, German and British bombs, missiles, and tank rounds — and a British legal scholar shines a light on an innovative Israel combat aim: creating a population of disabling people.
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The Gaza genocide goes on, with no end in sight, supported, defended and shielded by powerful Western states. And, a People’s Tribunal releases a Gaza Declaration.
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Israel-USA’s war on Gaza, international law, and a conversation with Michael Lynk
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Hidden biodiversity: floating in the air, dissolved in water, beneath our feet.
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Transgender rights versus women’s rights, and last week’s landmark British Supreme Court ruling on what the words “woman” and “sex” mean. The GPM speaks with Canadian human rights lawyer Robert Wintemute, author of a soon-to-be-released book entitled “Transgender Rights vs. Women’s Rights: From Conflicts to Coexistence.”
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