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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The GPM speaks about Israel-USA’s war on Gaza, and the future of the Palestinian people, with American-Palestinian journalist and author, Ramzy Baroud.
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Amidst the death and destruction Israel-USA has wrought in its genocidal war on Gaza, infectious disease now plagues the besieged enclave – diseases few if any drugs can treat. We speak with the author of a recent Lancet report — Multidrug-resistant bacteria amid health-system collapse in Gaza.
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They’re as cold as ICE. As US-backed Israeli forces terrorize Gaza, reducing the long-besieged enclave to rubble, smashing its people to bits, Donald Trump’s masked, plain-clothed, paramilitary militia terrorize black, brown and Latino communities coast to coast. The GPM speaks with antiwar/justice group CODEPINK. And, two dozen Canadian Senators call for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel. We speak with one of them.
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In brutalized Palestine — an oasis of liberation and hope. The GPM speaks with Mazin Qumsiyeh, founder/director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability. And, fainter hope – that Western leaders will bring depraved Israeli crimes to a halt. Look to Europe, not Israel’s conjoined twin, Israel-USA. Europe is where the Zionist mess began. So says Israeli historian Ilan Pappe.
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In defense of uniformity, inequity and exclusion, Donald Trump and his White-America-First regime are waging war on what makes America great — diversity, equity and inclusiveness. ‘DEI’ programs and initiatives across the US government, public and private sectors are being rooted out. We speak about Trump’s first 180 days in the White House with American scholar and writer, Dorothy Roberts.
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Criminal arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant; more charges and warrants in the pipeline. A conversation about the ICC with British barrister Toby Cadman. And, a conversation with Francesca Albanese, about US-Israeli crimes, impunity, and justice
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