We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

August 7, 2025
H. Patricia Hynes
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon dioxide (C02) in the atmosphere, may be sufficient in time to melt polar icecaps and submerge all coastal cities.  These predictions, which are proving accurate, were buried by the fossil fuel industry and their trade associations — who have countered critics with a smokescreen of fake science and disinformation campaigns.

The Christian Zionist View of Foreign Policy Is Holy War

August 6, 2025
Sara Gabler

Christian Zionists see Israel as the focus of US foreign policy — a handy euphemism for US empire.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a White House Faith Office luncheon in the State Dining Room at the White House on July 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/ Getty Images

‘Strategy of surrender’: Hezbollah condemns Lebanese cabinet decision on disarmament

August 6, 2025

The Lebanese cabinet called for a state monopoly on arms by the end of this year, without prioritizing an Israeli withdrawal or an end to attacks

اشرف مخلوقات

سرچشمهٔ جنگ و کشت و کشتار، حکام و سران دول می‌باشند که به منظور مخالفت با حاکم دیگری، و یا به منظور افزایش سرزمین تحت سلطه، مبادرت به جنگ می‌کنند. همین رفتار، شالوده و بنیان‌گذار خشم و خشونت در یک جامعه می‌باشد.ا

“End the Starvation”: Jewish Rabbis & Allies Outside NY Trump Hotel Call for U.S. to Stop Arming Israel

August 5, 2025

AMY GOODMAN: I’m going to turn right now to here in New York. There have been mass protests about what’s going on in Gaza and the West Bank, as Prime Minister Netanyahu says he’s going to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, escalate the war there. In Sydney, Australia, hundreds of thousands of people marched. On Friday, hundreds took over the office lobby of New York Senators Gillibrand and Schumer, who voted against Senator Bernie Sanders’ move to stop arming Israel. Last night, at Columbus Circle outside Trump International Hotel, hundreds also protested in a protest led by the Jewish American group IfNotNow and other Jewish leaders.

Reports: Netanyahu orders Israeli army to conquer all of Gaza

August 4, 2025
Qassam Muaddi

Israeli media is reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli army to expand its offensive in Gaza and reoccupy the entire Strip.

PEN America claims to support free speech, but fired me for speaking about Palestine

August 4, 2025
Kori Davis

The free speech organization PEN America fired me three days after I published an article about how they investigated me for sharing an article critical of Zionism. My termination is a sad reflection of PEN's censorious approach to Palestine.

A banner hanging at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020 in New York City

What has become of Mauritania's fishermen fifteen years after the authorities signed an agreement with China?

August 4, 2025
Jean Sovon and Vivian Wu

Unchecked industrial fishing practices have severely depleted coastal waters in West Africa

Women wading out with baskets to meet a fishing boat in the shallows, to buy the fresh fish at Port de Pêche, or Fishermen's Beach, in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania. Image from Wikipedia Attribution 2.0 Generic

LIVE BLOG: Hamas Rejects Witkoff’s Disarmament Claims as Aid Seekers Massacred – Day 666

August 3, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
60,430	148,722	14,000

Germany’s angel of history is screaming

August 1, 2025
Amos Brison

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history.

Israel and Genocide

August 1, 2025
Mel Gurtov
What is Genocide?

How MTG became MAGA's moral compass on Gaza

August 1, 2025
Jack Hunter

Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene has bucked her president, called for yanking aid to Israel, and was the first Republican to call what is happening 'a genocide'

LIVE: Israel’s attacks on Gaza kill 41 as starvation deaths mount

July31, 2025
Nils Adler, Maziar Motamedi

'The Tide Is Turning,' Says Sanders as Majority of Senate Dems Vote to Block Arms Sales to Israel

July 31, 2025
Jake Johnson

"The American people do not want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "The Democrats are moving forward on this issue, and I look forward to Republican support in the near future."

How Palestine Action Was Banned

July 30, 2025
John McEvoy
The discrepancy between Home Office press briefings and official intelligence reports on the direct-action group raises the prospect of a state-linked disinformation campaign, writes John McEvoy.
The U.K. government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed.

Palestine Action protest outside UAV Tactical Systems, in Leicester, England, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems UK, on May 1, 2023, over the company’s supply of armed drones to the Israeli military. (Flickr /CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)

July-August 2025 (Volume 77, Number 3)

By The Editors

On January 23, 2025, Climate and Capital Media published an article by Danny Kennedy, senior adviser to the Sunrise Project, entitled “US’s Petrostate Versus China’s Electrostate.” This was among the first of a torrent of articles from the corporate media and climate watchers on the astonishing successes of China in peaking and then lowering carbon emissions due to what the Financial Times on May 12, 2025, called China’s “Electricity Revolution.” According to the Financial Times, “China could be on its way to becoming the world’s first major ‘electrostate,’ with a growing share of its energy coming from electricity and its economy increasingly driven by clean technologies” (Danny Kennedy, “US’s Petrostate Versus China’s Electrostate,” Climate and Capital Media, January 23, 2025, climateandcaptialmedia.com; Nassos Stylianou et al., “How Xi Sparked China’s Electricity Revolution,” Financial Times, May 12, 2025).

 

مصاحبه

 

مصاحبهٔ امروز ما با آقای سادهٔ خِرَدکُش می‌باشد. ما پرسش‌هائی از این میهمان‌مان می‌کنیم و پاسخ‌های او را به همان شکلی‌ که ایشان عنوان می‌کنند در اینجا ثبت می‌کنیم. هدف از این گفتگوها درک ذهنیات اشخاصی‌ است که به ظاهر و از نظر علمی‌ و فرهنگی‌ در سطوح متوسط و پائین جامعه می‌باشند و آگاهی‌ علمی‌ آنها در حد متخصصین و کارشناسان نبوده، علاوه بر اینکه آنها دعوی دانش در مسائل خاصی‌ را نیز ندارند. بنابراین باید در نظر داشت که مصاحبه شونده از نظر فکری در سطح یک صاحب نظر نیست. دلیل مصاحبه با چنین شخصی‌ پی بردن به تفکرات کلیه آحاد جامعه در مورد مسائل پر اهمیت سیاسی و اقتصادی است. در پایان این مصاحبه، مطالب مورد بحث به صورت کلی‌ و اجمالی توسط مصاحبه کننده نتیجه‌گیری می‌شود.ا

Netanyahu To Propose a US-Supported Plan To Annex Gaza

July 28, 2025
Dave DeCamp

According to Haaretz, Netanyahu is pursuing the plan to prevent Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from quitting the government

Tehran On The Brink: Can Iran Survive Its Water Crisis?

July 29, 2025
Kian Sharifi
Worsening Water Crisis: Iran is experiencing a deepening water crisis that has forced authorities to impose widespread water cuts, with dam reservoirs across the country dropping to their lowest levels in decades. Drought, mismanagement, and mounting climate challenges are causing major disruptions to daily life for millions . . .

The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States

July 28, 2025
Norman Solomon

Israel has normalized its grisly attempt to exterminate 2 million Palestinians, a campaign co-produced by the Pentagon.