Welcome to our collection of articles dedicated to green politics. As our world grapples with pressing environmental and societal challenges, the green political movement emerges as a beacon of change.
These articles explore core areas of green politics such as: degrowth, demilitarization, union and worker rights, and anti-capitalism.
Discover the nuances of degrowth as we examine strategies to reshape economies, moving away from military and capitalist growth models toward a more balanced, regenerative approach. Explore the imperative of demilitarization, unraveling the environmental and social impacts of excessive military expenditures, and delving into proposals for redirecting resources towards constructive, peace-building endeavors. Anti-capitalism is a key theme, challenging the prevailing economic systems that prioritizes profit over people and the environment. Union and worker rights in politics is another key area. Our articles dissect the green political stance on restructuring economies to prioritize social justice, environmental sustainability, and community well-being.
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In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. Presumably he agreed that it does, because he renewed its status as a “national security threat” for a further year, repeating the designation that first began under the last Trump presidency.
An estimated 130,000 children under the age of 10 have been trapped in areas of northern Gaza almost entirely cut off from aid assistance, food and medical supplies for 50 days. According to Save the Children, life-sustaining aid has largely failed to make it through to any of the people besieged by Israeli forces in northern Gaza since early October, when the IDF declared the territory a “dangerous combat zone” and ordered civilians to evacuate.
The civilized World is shocked each day by reports of Jewish Israeli mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza and the images of the immense suffering of children and adults in a devastated city largely reduced to rubble. Numbers matter and shocking quantitative comparisons between the Gaza deaths and (a) WW2 Nazi and Japanese atrocities and (b) present global death statistics demand that the World must act to apply rigorous sanctions on Apartheid Israel to stop the killing and Occupation now.
Over the course of the first quarter of this century, the American presidency has accumulated ever more power, rendering the office increasingly less constrained by either Congress or the courts. With Donald Trump’s reelection, the slide toward a dangerously empowered president has reached a moment of reckoning, particularly when it comes to foreign affairs and warfare.
Discusses the coup attempt in South Korea in early December 2024, and the people’s uprising against it, which ultimately prevailed, and the martial law order was rescinded.
Detailing Israel’s “crime of extermination,” the report makes it clear bombing hospitals is no accident. Six days after the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. In fact, 1.1 million people were ordered to evacuate the entire north of the enclave within 24 hours. But the evacuation of critically ill patients from nearly two dozen hospitals — a total of around 2,000 people, including newborn babies in incubators, patients on hemodialysis and life support — was not possible, certainly not quickly. The World Health Organization (WHO) condemned the order, calling it a “death sentence” for the sick and injured . Health care workers made the difficult choice to stay with their patients, even as their families were forcibly displaced to the south.
On October 17, 2023, there was a massive explosion in the parking area outside one of these hospitals — Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. Having been displaced from their homes as Israel launched its offensive, thousands of residents were sheltering in and around the hospital, in addition to patients, families and staff.
The Venezuelan question is a black and white issue: either you support Lula and Biden’s regime change efforts in Venezuela, each moving forward in their own way, but coordinated, or you support Maduro and Putin’s defense of Venezuela’s independence and sovereignty. Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party (PT, by its acronym in Portuguese) has presented itself since its creation as an Ibero-American champion of multipolarity, as has its leader, President Lula, since the beginning of his first term in 2003, but these narratives are now being questioned as never before.
Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not been spared in this wave of Zionist repression. The U.S. climate community and the entire nonprofit ecosystem must understand, and quickly, that a chilling effect on free speech is bad news for a rapidly warming planet and extremely pernicious for frontline communities and CEJ groups. Thus far, we have not seen solidarity efforts for groups like CJA, We Act, and Deep South Center for EJ by many of the larger nonprofits in the climate/environmental sector, nor the larger nonprofit industrial complex. This needs to change expeditiously, for If there’s anything we should take from the imperialist aggressor, NATO, it’s Article 5 of the coalition’s charter – an attack against one shall be considered an attack against all.
