Camilla Nelson and Meg Vertigan comment on the stereotypical labels deployed against the young climate activist.
Misogyny, Male Rage & the Words Men Use to Describe Greta Thunberg
Category: Climate Change
The Greening of the New Deal
Charges that the Green New Deal will crash the budget and serve as an antechamber to socialism are just as bogus as similar arguments against its Depression-era predecessor, writes Steve Fraser.
Greta Thunberg & the Consolation of Doubt
Jonathan Cook catalogs the three types of criticism that a section of the progressive left is aiming at a Swedish child who is finally saying what they have been thinking.
CN and CN Live! Launch Fall Fund Raising Drive
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‘Planet So Small We Must Live in Peace’
Ann Wright reports on her citizen-to-citizen trip to Russia. Everywhere, including in Siberia, memories of World War II are still fresh.
WATCH: CN Live! Assange Update; Worldwide Climate Strike; No Strike on Iran—Episode 10
Episode 10 of CN Live! aired live Friday night. We looked at the latest on imprisoned Julian Assange; discussed the global Climate Strike and upcoming UN Climate Summit as well as the strike on Saudi oil installations and the U.S. response.
Amazon Burns Amid Brazil’s Incendiary Politics
Fires rage in the Amazon as Brazilian President Bolsonaro becomes a target of global indignation, writes Pepe Escobar.
Debating How Much Time We Have to Avert Climate Disaster is a Waste of Time
The UN’s warnings are dire, but they are still likely overestimating the time we have to act, writes Arn Menconi.
The Oligarchy’s Plans for Our Future Keep Getting Dumber
Caitlin Johnstone discards the high-flown dogma around space colonization and challenges readers to accept themselves and life on planet Earth.
US Agriculture Needs 21st-Century New Deal
Three scholars look at what can be done for U.S. farms, where bankruptcies were already at a 10-year high before the floods this past spring.