As a component of the total impact on the environment, called ecological footprint, a carbon footprint can be expressed as the amount of land or biocapacity required to absorb CO2 emissions.
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Workers’ political consciousness in demobilized class societies: Redistribution, recognition and representation
Media reports, as well as a veritable cottage industry of ethnographic explorations documenting right-wing views among workers, have consolidated an image of a class hopelessly lost to resentment and reaction.
New CBS owner David Ellison met with top Israeli general in scheme to spy on Americans
Israel’s former top general sought donations from David Ellison and his father, Larry, as part of a billionaire coterie to fund digital paramilitaries aimed at sabotaging pro-Palestine activists. The leaked documents show one planner explaining, “In the jungle, we...
USA is isolated on World Stage: Trump failed to pressure Countries to support illegal blockade of Cuba
The Trump admin pressured countries to oppose a UN General Assembly resolution calling to end the illegal US embargo against Cuba. Only 7 voted against it. 165 member states (85%) supported the measure.
Trump the president of wars. He threatens Nigeria now!
Trump threatens to go into Nigeria ‘guns-a-blazing’ over attacks on Christians.
Dick Cheney (1941–2025): The dark legacy of a war criminal
Former U.S. vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney died on 3 November 2025 at age 84; his family said he had suffered from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
Mamdani beats Cuomo and the Press hacks (again)
New York City baseball legend Yogi Berra said it best: "It’s déjà vu all over again."
What Do Vice Presidents Do?
I was reflecting on the wisdom I acquired in one of my early college classes, “Introduction to American Government,” and subsequent historical readings. First, the conventional wisdom of American political life was that Vice Presidents are rarely of any administrative...
The fight to end Minneapolis’s use of Israeli surveillance technology
Goonin: We had a petition for people to sign, expressing their opposition to the contract, and we collected more than 2,000 signatures.
A conversation with Kathryn Bigelow, director of ‘A House of Dynamite,’ and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim
In the pantheon of movies about nuclear catastrophe, the emotional power of A House of Dynamite is rivalled, to my way of thinking, only by Fail Safe, in which Henry Fonda, as an American president, must drop the bomb on New York City to atone for a mistaken U.S....
Debt and the cockroaches
So the stock market may be booming and the AI hype is still exploding, but the rest of the economy is not so buoyant; and there appear to be cockroaches eating into the clean running of the world of debt. Watch that space.
Anand Teltumbde’s Memoir ‘The Cell and the Soul’ is an important read to understand post-2014 India
Prison mirrors society in its hierarchies. Its walls replicate the structures of caste, class, and privilege with cruel precision. This book joins a growing canon of India's prison literature.











