
London’s largest ever public protests for climate and Earth justice have come to a close. An estimated hundred thousand attended the four-day event, organized by Extinction Rebellion and other UK groups, rallying around the theme, “Unite to Survive.”
Shit doesn’t just happen. Stock market crashes, multi-vehicle pileups, the collapse of tall buildings, wildfires, viral pandemics … None of these phenomena have a single, simple explanation. Rather, they all result from a multitude of events, factors and situations — proximal, distal and invariably complex. Thomas Homer-Dixon is a complexity theorist. Listen to our conversation.
Donald Trump cited a frightful list of anti-American threats in his 4300-word nomination acceptance speech: terrorism, immigrants, crime, violence, gangs, drugs, lawlessness, government regulation, media elites. He had nothing to say about multidrug-resistant superbugs.
Rising seas linked to climate change pose a major threat to coastal cities around the world. Dutch engineers are designing nature-based flood control systems that are cheap, effective, and environmentally friendly.
We use lots of items in our daily lives. We use them and then throw them away, or perhaps recycle them when they wear out or get damaged. Then again, some of us prefer to repair for re-use — at a Repair Cafe.
Bacteria and fungi, Earth’s quintessential biochemists, are famous for the odd molecules they produce. But human beings are no slouches. According to one estimate, global commerce swells with thousands of industrial chemicals, many completely novel, some very toxic
I’ve always hung out on the margins, with all the other misfits, freaks and queers; on the edge, the border between femininity and masculinity, between brownness and whiteness, a standpoint that offers me a unique worldview.
Checkpoint 56, in Israeli-occupied Hebron, is a fearsome sight to behold. Flashed before your eyes in a Rorschach test, it could be taken for a high-voltage substation, or an industrial meat grinder.
Rob Kendrick — aka Shakydad — is a highly successful guy with Parkinson’s Disease. Listen to him reflect on the challenges and changes Parkinson’s has offered up, for worse and for better.
Back in 2012, on a visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, I set out to speak with someone who refers to these gorgeous lands as “Judea” and “Samaria.” That is to say, with a Jewish settler.
In an agronomy lab and farm field in Montpellier, France, scientists are uncovering the secrets of one of the world’s great crops. The potential spin-offs for global green economies are huge.
Picture a landscape buried beneath a sky-high heap of dead plants and animal corpses. This is what Earth’s surface would look like if it weren’t for fungi. Fungi are the biosphere’s recyclers. Human society depends on them absolutely.
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Israel-USA’s February 28 assault on Iran constituted a flagrant breach of the UN Charter, but don’t expect Western powers and the corporate media to say so. Has Iran now turned the tables on Trump? The GPM explores this idea with Iran scholar Arang Keshavarzian. And, shades of Dr. Strangelove. An obscure tech titan wants to rule the world, and has even come up with a Manifesto. All hail the Republic of Palantir. The GPM speaks about Alex Karp’s weird manifesto with U. Ottawa scholar David Murakami Wood.
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Apartheid Israel’s all-encompassing system for surveilling and jailing Palestinians. A conversation with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. And, the current status of the settler-colonial apartheid state’s most famous prisoner, Marwan Barghouti. The GPM speaks with Barghouti’s lawyer.
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New report: The Canadian financial sector is deeply involved in supporting Israel’s unlawful occupation of Palestine, bankrolling unlawful Jewish settlement, apartheid and genocide there, as well as internationally wrongful Israeli acts in Lebanon and the illegally annexed Syrian Golan Heights.
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The GPM speaks about Israel-USA’s war on Iran, and the wider state of the world, with Atif Kubursi, Emeritus Professor of Economics at McMaster University.
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In Ottawa, legislation that would have halted Canadian military support for US-Israeli genocide in Gaza fails. The GPM speaks with Rachel Small, Canada Organizer for World Without War. And, the second part of a conversation about critical education with Canadian academic, Henry Giroux.
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Hothouse Earth. A very unsafe operating space for human beings — indeed, totally uninhabitable. As Earth warms, at an increasing pace, invisible points of no return transgressed, that’s where we may be heading. The GPM speaks with the co-author of a recent report, and listens back to a conversation with a pioneer in Earth systems science, Will Steffen.
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