Environment

Two regular Truthout contributors discussed everything from cooperatives to food and leisure in Greece.

Robert Reich: Why would government incentivize carbon emissions and discourage higher ed? Ask Republicans.

“Do you have any idea how we can find independence from the corporate–state terror?” asks activist Subhankar Banerjee.

Tapes reveal Anglo Irish Bank executives laughed as they manipulated Irish Government into 16 billion dollar bailout the knew they would never repay.

John Pilger: Imagine the outrage if this act of state terrorism and air piracy was carried out on a ‘Western’ leader.

Jubilation in the streets as Army removes Pres. Morsi and suspends constitution, some Egyptian TV stations shutdown by military forces.

A paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows that trash is accumulating in the deep sea, particularly in Monterey Canyon, off the coast of California.

It should come as no surprise that the Koch Brothers would want to protect their perceived right to pollute our environment and do irreversible damage to our planet.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has reportedly abandoned his effort to stay permanently in Russia, but has submitted asylum requests to 20 other countries.

Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar.