You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate.

The reason the ecosystem is dying is because corporations look at everything, from human beings to the natural environment, as exploitable commodities.

Tens of millions of the world’s poor will have their food rations cut or cancelled in the next few weeks because rich countries have slashed aid funding.

Eighteen months ago, no one dared imagine humanity pushing the climate beyond an additional two degrees C of heating, but rising carbon emissions and inability to agree on cuts has meant science must now consider the previously unthinkable.

In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?

Iraqi Oil Minister accused of mother of all sell-outs. To public fury, the country is handing over control of its fields to foreign companies.

Obama needs to start putting it on the line in fights against the banks, the energy companies and the healthcare industry.

We heard from representatives of the Peruvian Amazonian peoples about the ongoing protests they were waging, and the repression faced as a result, from their opposition to some of the plans the Peruvian government has for ‘developing’ the Amazon region and opening it for oil, mineral, logging, and agricultural exploitation.

Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million.

After hearing the disturbing news that 76% of Americans don’t know what cap-and-trade is, Hank Green over at EcoGeek got his video camera and blue screen out to explain “the most important environmental legislation ever!”

While the airwaves are awash in competing coal ads — the coal industry touting “clean coal” and environmental groups calling out their lies — the media loses the discussion in the noise and the ad campaigns dominate the discussion.