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Tsunami and Nuke Disaster: How Human Arrogance Intensifies Suffering

Cross-posted from AlterNet By Arun Gupta This century, barely out of the box, is already flush with mega-disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Haiti’s earthquake, the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake, the BP oil...

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REDD-Monitor open thread: Capitalism, climate change and carbon trading

By Chris Lang, 28th August 2011 In this open thread are six links covering two themes, followed by a seventh as a postscript. First, the global economy is in serious trouble. Second, runaway climate...

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Occupy Demands: Let’s Radicalize Our Analysis

Cross-Posted from Al-Jazeera-English, Thursday, November 3, 2011 The crisis we face is caused by failed systems – replacing leaders while keeping the old system intact will not help. by Robert Jensen...

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George Carlin on the 1%: Ahead of His Time Again…

Note: Back in 2008, the amazing George Carlin laid out the facts about this so-called “democracy” we live in. –the GJEP Team Filed under: Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, Occupy Wall Street,...

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The link between emissions cuts, right to development and transformation of...

Note: Like Global Justice Ecology Project, Focus on the Global South did not attend the UN Climate Conference in Qatar this year.  Corporations run the show and it is time to mobilize with the social...

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Video–Arundhati Roy: “Capitalism, A Ghost Story”

Note: In honor of Christmas, a critique of Capitalism. –The GJEP Team This is a recording of a speech made by Arundhati Roy as a part of the 4th series of lecture under the Anuradha Ghandy Memorial...

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Jonathan Moylan, stunts, the working class and fighting climate change

Note: While we agree with the conclusion that we must eliminate the suicidal economic system known as Capitalism in order to stop climate catastrophe, we do not agree that this can be done by taxing...

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Can civilization survive capitalism?

By Noam Chomsky, March 8, 2013. Source: Nation of Change There is “capitalism” and then there is “really existing capitalism.” The term “capitalism” is commonly used to refer to the U.S. economic...

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Pablo Salon: How to overcome the climate crisis?

By Pablo Salon, March 15, 2013. Source: Climate Space 2013 There is no single answer, no single campaign nor single approach. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids catastrophe, we...

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The Texas fertilizer plant explosion cannot be forgotten

By Mike Elk, April 23, 2013. Source: Washington Post On Friday, as cable news networks sought desperately to fill airtime while waiting for the latest news in the aftermath of the Boston bombings, a...

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Managing Bolivian capitalism

Note: ’21st century socialism’, brought to you by the extractive industries… -The GJEP Team By Jeffery R. Webber. Source: Jacobin Magazine Internationally, capitalism is in crisis. But in Bolivia,...

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NASA-funded study: Industrial civilization headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?

Note: Finally, some wonky experts have used complicated equations to determine exactly what social movements have been saying for decades.  Granted, their solutions are unlikely to be rooted in...

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Capitalism’s bullets in Latin America: invisible empires, state power and...

By Benjamin Dangl, June 13, 2014. Source: Toward Freedom   The notorious US private militia group Academi – previously known as Blackwater – trained Brazilian security forces in North Carolina in...

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