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The fossil fuel industry is responsible for the worsening climate impacts you see in the news. Today, we look at one of the most visible, most frightening faces of the climate crisis: wildfires.

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As the Trump administration saddles Americans with new administrative burdens to cut taxes for the rich, the Mamdani administration has made cutting red tape to free up benefits part of its governing agenda for New York.

Moroccan rapper El Mahdi Lyoubi, aka Mehdi Black Wind, was arrested this month on charges of defaming the king. The trumped-up charges reflect the monarchy’s trouble coping with the youth revolt expressed in last year’s GenZ 212 movement.

Reading Ernest Mandel through Unite, the Teamsters and Comisiones Obreras

by El Habib Ben Amara

Ecological restoration is often approached as a technical challenge, but lasting recovery depends on restoring the cultural relationships that once sustained landscapes. Drawing on the traditional oasis communities of the Algerian Sahara, El Habib Ben Amara examines how modernization disrupted systems of water sharing, architecture, agriculture, and collective memory that had evolved over centuries. The article argues that environmental resilience cannot be rebuilt through engineering alone. Recovering local ecological knowledge and the social practices embedded within it is essential to restoring degraded ecosystems and creating sustainable futures rooted in both culture and place.

by Brett Wilkins

“I don’t feel like there is a ceasefire at all,” said a man who witnessed an Israeli missile attack on a hospital.“I don’t feel like there is a ceasefire at all,” said a man who witnessed an Israeli missile attack on a hospital.

by Michael K. Smith

Michael K. Smith examines Israel’s historical military and security relationships with governments and armed forces across Latin America, arguing that these links shaped counterinsurgency campaigns, authoritarian rule, and human rights abuses during the Cold War and beyond. The article traces alleged Israeli involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and other countries, connecting these histories to contemporary security policies under leaders such as Nayib Bukele. It contends that methods first developed in Palestine were later exported to the Americas, influencing state violence, mass incarceration, and repression, while highlighting enduring debates over accountability, international solidarity, and the legacy of theseconflicts.

by Ellen Isaacs

The growth of the Democratic Socialists of America has renewed debate about the future of the US left. Ellen Isaacs argues that DSA’s electoral strategy and commitment to reforming capitalism through existing institutions divert energy from building an independent, mass working-class movement. Examining the organization’s politics and the record of DSA-backed officials, the article contends that meaningful social transformation cannot be achieved through elections alone. It calls instead for workplace organizing, militant collective action, and a revolutionary understanding of capitalism as the basis for achieving a society beyond exploitation and inequality.

by Abayomi Azikiwe

Parallels can be drawn between MAGA in the United States and retrograde elements domestically, as well as other Western imperialist states.

The Colombian National Election Council declared Abelardo de la Espriella the winner in the presidential run off June 21. When on the campaign trail he saluted to the slogan “Steadfast for the homeland,” May 25, 2026. CC0 1.0 SPRAWLING OVER THE southern hills of Bogotá, Ciudad Bolivar is a vast proletarian neighborhood of 700,000 people.… Continue reading Colombia and Latin America: A New Stage of the Struggle

As electrification increases we must make the right choices

Canada’s Victims of Communism monument included proposed honorees from the Waffen-SS, the Ustaša, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The charity that supplied the names is still helping shape the memorial’s next phase.

The part of the rise in class consciousness and organizing by college-educated workers that we should pay closest attention to is that it’s happening in expanding industries that are strategic for organizing like health, education, and social services.

India’s “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country’s education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power.

by Lee Ann Rawlins Williams

Repeated floods and storms across the United States are making recovery a continuous struggle rather than a temporary phase. As extreme weather becomes more frequent, many communities face repeated rebuilding, mounting financial losses, strained public resources, and growing emotional exhaustion. Researchers describe this pattern as disaster fatigue, where repeated crises weaken social networks, overburden local institutions, and make long-term recovery increasingly difficult. This article examines how overlapping disasters expose weaknesses in existing recovery systems and argues that sustained investment in resilient infrastructure, coordinated support, and community institutions is essential to help people recover from increasingly frequent climate-related disasters.

by Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The social democrat wing gains in strength but establishment Democrats continue their allegiance to the donor class.

by Phil Wilson

The Permian mass extinction offers a stark lens through which to view today’s climate crisis. Phil Wilson argues that humanity struggles to grasp the urgency of accelerating environmental breakdown because its consequences unfold beyond the limits of everyday perception. Drawing on geology, climate science, and the fossil record, the article contends that rapid greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and ecological disruption demand far greater climate literacy and collective action. It challenges readers to understand the present not as an isolated crisis, but as part of a pattern with profound implications for the future of life on Earth.

Here at Stand.earth, we are working toward a climate-safe, fossil-free future in which governments affirm the dignity of all — because we’ve held them accountable. Corporations sell products made exclusively from responsible sources, and with renewable energy — because the collective pressure we’ve exerted makes it impossible not to. Energy grids around the world provide […]