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Screen New Deal
Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia → Read More
Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
The long read: As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power → Read More
Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia
Big tech’s emerging pandemic shock doctrine demands heavy public subsidies for a no-touch, socially distanced coronavirus future. → Read More
Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It
Governments around the world are busily exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks. → Read More
The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy
Sanders believes that as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs. → Read More
How the Transformative Power of Solidarity Will Beat Trump
The message of the Sanders campaign increasingly sounds less like conventional electoral campaigning and more like old-school political organizing. → Read More
Deep Roots for the Coming Storms: Why We Deserve a President Bernie Sanders
The following is an unauthorized transcript of remarks made by author and activist Naomi Klein in Exeter, New Hampshire on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at a campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders. In November of last year, Klein officially endorsed Sanders' primary bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination and now serves the campaign as a national surrogate. | By Naomi → Read More
Naomi Klein on how politics can solve the climate crisis
Activist and author Naomi Klein tells Anushka Asthana that combating the climate crisis must be at the heart of an urgent restructuring of politics and the economy. Plus: Daniel Trilling on the shocking discovery of 39 bodies inside a lorry in Essex → Read More
Only a Green New Deal Can Douse the Fires of Eco-Fascism
We have to confront the ways in which the fires of climate breakdown are already intersecting with white supremacy and surging xenophobia. → Read More
Maxime Bernier Attacked Greta Thunberg’s Autism. Naomi Klein Says Autism Made the Teen a Global Voice of Conscience – Countercurrents
Maxime Bernier wants us to think he is sorry. The leader of the extremist People’s Party of Canada had tweeted that Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is “clearly mentally unstable. Not only autistic, but obsessive-compulsive, eating disorder, depression, and lethargy, and she lives in a constant state of fear. She wants us to feel the same.” Facing a ferocious backlash,[Read More...] → Read More
What’s in a Trump Straw?
The overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet’s on fire. → Read More
'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the climate crisis
In this extract from her latest book On Fire, the No Logo author looks at why capitalism and politics have got in the way of addressing the climate crisis → Read More
The Amazon Is on Fire—Indigenous Rights Can Help Put It Out – Countercurrents
Colonialism is setting the world on fire. Taking leadership from the people who have been resisting its violence for centuries, while protecting non-extractive ways of life, is our best hope of putting out the flames. It was an epic case of projection. Lashing out at the attacks on his Amazon-incinerating policies, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro accused French President Emmanuel Macron of… → Read More
The Amazon is on fire — indigenous rights can help put it out
A sense of divine entitlement to other people’s land is fueling the Amazon fires. Increased respect for indigenous rights could be the key to ushering in a new age of ecological equilibrium. → Read More
Forget Bernie vs. Warren. Focus on Growing the Progressive Base and Defeating Biden.
The last thing we need is for the two strongest progressive candidates and their supporters to tear each other apart. → Read More
We’re stepping up – join us for a day to halt this climate crisis
We’re calling for a global strike on 20 September. Disrupting our normal lives is the only way to secure our future, says Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and others → Read More
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. → Read More
The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn on the Green New Deal
“I REALLY DON’T like their policies of taking away your car, taking away your airplane flights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ or ‘you’re not allowed to own cows anymore!'”So bellowed President Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas, his first campaign-style salvo against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey’s Green New Deal resolution. There will surely be many → Read More
The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn on the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal can succeed only if we recognize that our crisis can only be overcome with a holistic vision for social and economic transformation. → Read More
A Podcast in the Making: Getting Emotional About Labor
Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor discuss labor and the future of work in a new podcast pilot. → Read More