How Bureaucracy Systematically Neutered Dissent (VIDEO)

In the wake of Bush, Naomi Wolf outlines the strategic and ethical challenges Obama now faces with intelligence, war profiteering, and surveillance. Only with the collective mobilization of millions of US people in a massive grassroots constitutional democracy movement will the corporate influence over Obama be checked and halted. read more

Lovelock Warns: One Last Chance Or 8 Billion Humans Die

According to James Lovelock, published in New Scientist, the outlook for humanity is bleak, with at least 90% of the world’s population dying before the end of the century as a direct result of climate change. This suggests that even if Obama acts at once with the level of measures suggested by Jim Hansen, it will be nowhere near enough to save us. read more

Air Pollution Melting Snow Quicker, Contaminating Water

A new study shows that pollution from automobiles and coal-fired power plants is contributing to the melting of mountain snowpacks up to a month early, exacerbating water shortages and polluting streams in the arid West. read more

Must. Prosecute. War crimes --Olbermann [video]

Keith Olbermann's special comment -- prosecute the war criminals.

Past is prologue. Allowing the Bush Crime family's crimes against humanity go unaccounted for gives permission to future US governments to make endless, illegal wars on wars and to deceive and deny the US people of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and to continue shredding the US Constitution.

Got War Criminals? Hold them accountable or become complicitly one yourself, President Obama. Try leading us out of consumerist-fueled, corporatist-caused ecological, economic, and social collapse into a reset, no-carbon, biochar, 100% renewable energy, steady-state, relocalized bio-regionally-based green jobs economy. read more

Four years for Obama to avert climate change worst effects

President Obama has forty-eight months to stabilize global-warming gas emissions at a level widely considered safe says leading climate change scientist Jim Hansen. Head of the UN's Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists, Rajendra Pachauri argues that global CO2 emissions must be reduced to negative figures by 2050 to spare us the worse effects. read more