Join the call for a Green New Deal to create economic prosperity together with ecological sustainability.

The United States, if it does not radically alter course, will become a totalitarian state. That is the argument of Sheldon S. Wolin's Democracy Incorporated.

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So let me suggest a truly audacious hope for your [Obama's] administration: How about a five-year time-out on war -- unless, of course, there is a genuine threat to the nation?

Christine Todd Whitman, who was the head of the Environmental Protection Agency at the time, later described the exit of Kyoto as "the equivalent to 'flipping the bird,' frankly, to the rest of the world".

Norwegian philosopher, writer and mountaineer Arne Naess, best known for launching the concept of "deep ecology," has died, his publisher said Tuesday. He was 96.

The Cold War shaped world politics for half a century. But global warming may shape the patterns of global conflict for much longer than that -- and help spark clashes that will be, in every sense of the word, hot wars.

A warmer planet could find itself more often at war. The Earth’s fast-changing climate has a range of serious thinkers — from military brass to geographers to diplomats — predicting a spate of armed conflicts driven by the weather.

The U.S. environmental movement is failing – by any measure, the state of the earth has never been more dire. What’s needed, a leading environmentalist writes, is a new, inclusive green politics that challenges basic assumptions about consumerism and unlimited growth.

The world economy faces a triple crunch of financial instability, rising prices for fuel and food, and ecological crisis. An ambitious program of Green job creation that tackles all these problems together may well be the best way to solve them, according to the United Nations.

The current financial crisis presents an opportunity to scrap the failed policies of neoliberal economics and make America's economic policy both stronger and fairer. By rejecting band-aid solutions, taking decisive action to stop the bleeding, holding the culprits accountable, and reforming our financial system to address the root causes of the crisis, we would do future generations a great service.

The Wall Street crisis of 2008 was the inevitable culmination of decades of neoliberal economic policy, which views free markets and deregulation as the solution to every problem. Investigative journalist Naomi Klein explains how this dangerous ideology took hold throughout US academia and government, and why the Wall Street crisis should be for neoliberalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Soviet Communism.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States continued spending more on the military than the rest of the world combined. Andrew Bacevich, author of "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism", questions whether the runaway spending actually makes America safer, and why candidates from both the Democratic and Republican parties are swearing allegiance to the global "war on terror".

We might wonder why no Democratic Party contender for the presidency has invoked the memory of the New Deal and its unprecedented series of laws aimed at helping people in need.

The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can't spend $3 trillion -- yes, $3 trillion -- on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home.

Nader, perhaps better than anyone else, has grasped the long, disastrous rise of the corporate state....And it is better to stand up and fight, even in vain, than not to fight at all.