Christian Parenti

Originally published at TomDispatch.com At some basic level, climate change shouldn’t be hard to grasp.  Fossil-fuel burning -- the essence of our civilization since the industrial revolution -- dumps prodigious amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.  As it happens, 2010 was another banner year for carbon dioxide production; the 5.9% rise in CO2 emissions was the “biggest jump ever recorded.” That greenhouse gas, in turn, traps heat and so warms the planet.  The results are...Read Full Story

A Secret History of Free Enterprise and the Government That Made It Possible Crossposted from Tom Dispatch.com Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest year ever recorded. An epic drought there killed half a billion trees, touched off wildfires [...]Read Full Story

Made Popular:5 hours 1 min ago - Reuters - When the coffin of Afghan journalist and "fixer" Ajmal Naqshbandi was carried through the streets of Kabul in 2007, locals wailed that the world didn't care.Read Full Story

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