On July 23, 2010, Pete Seeger performed live at a Gulf Coast Oil Spill fundraiser at The City Winery in New York City. There, he unveiled to the public a new protest song. It discusses the the BP oil spill and includes the lyrics: “When drill baby drill turns to spill baby spill God’s counting on [...]
The last three months have been the warmest on record and we need to bring the same urgency to climate change that we did to stopping the Gulf oil spill, says Bill McKibben. Over the same period as the BP spill was taking place, if you add up all the carbon being burned in all [...]
The 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable. More than 300 scientists from 160 research groups in 48 countries contributed to the report, which confirms that the past decade [...]
Time Magazine: We Cannot Leave Afghanistan, by Peter Hart In case you thought the WikiLeaks story might change everything: The forthcoming Time magazine (out tomorrow) has a cover photo of a disfigured Afghan woman with the headline “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan.” The implication would seem to be that the Taliban will commit similar [...]
The story of the day is obviously the large pieces in the London Guardian and the New York Times that are based on tens of thousands of documents related to the Afghanistan War published by WikiLeaks. The leak is already being compared to the Pentagon Papers. How newspapers determine what is most newsworthy about the [...]
As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith’s brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood. On Friday, read Sean Smith’s extraordinary diary of his time on the Afghanistan frontline on guardian.co.uk. Sean Smith’s brutal film from the Helmand [...]
The House approved $33 billion for a 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan this week and in doing so took money away from other places it was desperately needed: public schools, green energy and job creation, the lot. 60 percent of Democrats and 93 percent of Republicans think increasing the deficit is just fine when it comes [...]
Talks on Iran’apos;s nuclear program will resume in September, and despite the war bluster from neocons and the far right, the Obama administration seems prepared to try once again. via United States, Iran to Restart Talks | The Nation.
Despite a Democratic supermajority in Congress, and despite President Obama’s campaign promise to tackle global warming, there will be no climate bill this year. The demise last week of the Kerry-Lieberman Senate bill makes that official. But that may actually be a good thing: it clears the way for genuine solutions to global warming—solutions that [...]
We want to urge fans to see Countdown to Zero and join the movement to eliminate nuclear weapons and ratify the new START Treaty. Directed by Lucy Walker and Produced by Academy Award Winner Lawrence Bender, the Film presents compelling stories to inspire a demand for a nuclear free world. We wrote the song about [...]
