by Michael Klare | Mar 14, 2023 | War & Peace
Is China really on the verge of invading the island of Taiwan, as so many top American officials seem to believe? If the answer is “yes” and the U.S. intervenes on Taiwan’s side — as President Biden has sworn it would — we could find ourselves in a major-power...
by John Feffer | Mar 1, 2023 | Democracy & Governance, Global Just Transition
The United Nations has convened 27 conferences on climate change. For nearly three decades, the international community has come together at a different location every year to pool its collective wisdom, resources, and resolve to address this global threat. These...
by Joey Shea | Feb 15, 2023 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Environment, Human Rights
In recent weeks, grave concerns have emerged about the conflicts of interest posed by the United Arab Emirates as host of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference known as COP28, as well as fears about the safety and security of participants in the deeply...
by Peoples of the Global South | Feb 9, 2023 | Environment, Global Just Transition
Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South An appeal to leaders, institutions, and our brothers and sisters More than two years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic—and now alongside the catastrophic consequences of Russia’s...
by Liz Theoharis | Feb 7, 2023 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
A few weeks ago, the world’s power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town, for the 2023 World Economic Forum. In an annual ritual that reads ever more like Orwellian farce, the global elite gathered —...
