Nick Lehr interviews David Bromwich about his new book, which is unsparing in his assessment of Obama’s legacy.
Why Barack Obama Was Particularly Unsuited to Live up to the Ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize
Category: Environment
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.
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.
The Forbidden Topic in Pompeo’s Arctic Doctrine
Michael T. Klare examines the U.S. secretary of state’s grim and historic proclamation on the Far North.
WATCH: CN Live! Episode 7—John Kiriakou on the 9/11 Trial; Pepe Escobar on His Prison Interview with Lula; New Whitney Webb Interview on Epstein & the Clintons, and a Scandal Rocking Australia
CN Live! was back in prime time Friday night with John Kiriakou, Pepe Escobar, Whitney Webb, John Shipton, Quentin Dempster, Peter B. Collins and Cathy Vogan. Watch the replay right here on Consortium News.
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.
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.
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food & Climate Change
Ronnie Cummins challenges the widely used official estimate of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. agriculture.
Labor and Environment Movement’s Complex Stance on Green New Deal
Aviva Chomsky reports on the complexities of labor’s response to the Green New Deal and little-known divisions over the plan within the environmental movement.
The Great Reckoning
From a vantage point in the not-too-distant future Andrew J. Bacevich looks back on 2019 as a year when, in retrospect, it was clear the United States had passed a point of no return.