by John Feffer | Jan 18, 2023 | Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition, Labor, Trade, & Finance
In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report called The Limits to Growth that laid out the damage to the planet and to human beings of unrestrained increases in economic production and population. It was a straightforward extrapolation from then-current trends that...
by William D. Hartung | Jan 17, 2023 | War & Peace
Late last month, President Biden signed a bill that clears the way for $858 billion in Pentagon spending and nuclear weapons work at the Department of Energy in 2023. That’s far more than Washington anted up for military purposes at the height of the Korean or...
by John Feffer | Dec 21, 2022 | Democracy & Governance
The German government recently arrested 25 members of a conspiratorial right-wing group plotting to overthrow the government. One of those arrested was a member of a defunct German royal family that the group hoped to install as Germany’s new leader. In the United...
by Farrah Hassen | Dec 14, 2022 | Human Rights
This year had the unwelcome distinction of being the first to see over 100 million people displaced worldwide. Such a staggering milestone reminds us that greater efforts are needed to address the underlying causes forcing so many innocent people to flee their homes....
by William Minter, Zeb Larson | Dec 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
The climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt last month approved a fund to compensate the most vulnerable countries for “loss and damage” they have suffered due to global warming caused primarily by industrialized countries. A compromise brokered by the...
