Premature endorsement of incomplete and inadequate targets is the wrong approach.
"It is psychologically hard for me to recall all that was happening," said one former Bagram Air Base inmate. "The torture was mostly done by Afghans, sometimes the Americans. But the orders came from the U.S."
A new report says "smart" pro-labor policies by lawmakers would transform the "inevitable" shift to EVs "into a new beginning for U.S. producers and the rebuilding of a foundation for good jobs."
The ruling represents a step forward "for all climate-imperiled species whose fate relies upon the service following the law," said advocacy group WildEarth Guardians.
"What matters most is whether governments implement impactful policies to reduce pollutant emissions, such as ending investments in coal, oil, and gas and prioritizing the transition to clean energy," said a Greenpeace scientist.
We need a reinvigorated anti-war movement.
"The future is going to wonder what on earth we thought we were doing with plastic."
Without the power of the union to stand up for workers, very little progress can be made in pay equality, diversity inclusion, workplace conditions, and so on.
"The United States does not negotiate with terrorists. It's time for the Congressional Progressive Caucus to extend that principle to the legislative process."
More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes because of climate change impacts—including increasingly severe storms, wildfires, and flooding.
Twenty years after the United States invasion of Afghanistan, the peace activists and feminists who opposed the war from the beginning were proven right. Now, let’s listen to them and slash the Pentagon budget to reinvest in our communities.
One Democratic U.S. congressman called the move "a complete slap in the face to the families of the more than 50,000 Floridians who have died from Covid."
"The writing is on the wall for coal power," said the president of upcoming climate summit COP26.
Twenty years of Pentagon violence and waste should ring alarm bells inside the head of every American, warning us that we have allowed our government to spend trillions of dollars waging war while ignoring real existential dangers to our civilization and all of humanity.
"Pouring billions more into the military, far beyond even the level requested by President Biden, sends exactly the wrong message at this moment in history."
"We continue to bankroll the very fossil fuel companies responsible for the climate crisis, then wonder why our planet is on fire."
"Every day that goes by, another roughly 10,000 people are lost to this disease—what are governments with the power to change this horrific statistic waiting for?"
Our weak and deregulated federal election system has created this cycle of wasting our tax dollars on "forever wars" that produce nothing but pain, suffering, death, and displacement for many while generating large profits for private defense contractors.
"The Biden agenda—our Democratic agenda—is at stake. It's progressives who are fighting to pass it in its entirety."
"This pandemic isn't over, and we have to do everything we can to protect renters from the harm and trauma of needless eviction, which upends the lives of those struggling to get back on their feet."
"Covid-19 vaccines must be readily available and accessible for all. It is up to governments and pharma companies to make this a reality."
