...So think "resistance" with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet. Gather the others: you already know them. The brave, smart, militant, and, most of all, serious, and together take aim. Do it carefully, but do it.
Then fire for all you're worth.
defend that which you love.
“The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out are precious catalysts for change.”
Mon, May 13 2024
Dispatch From the Lithium Mining War on the West
BY KATIE FITE / COUNTERPUNCH A recent financial Webinar features Jindalee mining company executive Lindsay Dudfield selling the company’s plan for an immense lithium mining project that would tear apart the heart of irreplaceable Sage-grouse habitat at [...]
Fri, May 03 2024
In Climate-related Flooding, a Ugandan River Turns Poisonous
Editor’s note: Mining poisons the earth, not only right now, but for future generations: even if the mine is closed and all workers have left, the chemicals and metals that they have used and mined will stay hidden in the soil. But it can’t be [...]
Mon, Apr 29 2024
The Wrong Side of the Tract: Abstract, Extract, Distract
“The climate crisis for example, has been framed as an environment issue and a technology issue, when it is actually a crisis of the human consciousness and psyche. This criminally negligent misdiagnosis, reframing and distortion of major existential [...]
Sat, Apr 27 2024
Just Keep Bringing Awareness to the Depravity of the Empire
Editor’s Note: Now as the evil empire is falling apart, it is trying to do as much damage as it can while it still can. As Dylan Thomas said: “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” There [...]
Mon, Apr 22 2024
How To Stop Mining Before It Starts: Carlos Zorrilla
Editor’s Note: Brave activist throughout the world risk their lives to protect the environment. We honor and respect their courage and realize that they are truly heroes. May they remain safe and in our thoughts to give them strength to carry on. Are [...]
Fri, Apr 19 2024
Dear Technocrats, Leave Us Alone
Editor’s note: We arrive in a time where technocrats are taking the reigns over the conditions of life, in the age of the machine. Or at least they aim to, but Mother Earth won’t accept a submission under dead things invented by coldhearted [...]
Mon, Apr 15 2024
Effective Activism Requires Honest Conversations
Editor’s Note: Civilization is killing the planet. DGR believes that nature must be protected from civilization. Nature can come back from the damage that people have done but first the destruction must stop. While people can not survive without [...]
Fri, Apr 12 2024
Film Review: Ecosophia
Ecosophia by Peter Charles Downey – Film Review By Elisabeth Robson The film Ecosophia is a tour through many of the issues facing humanity: our addiction to growth, energy, and materials, and our devastating use of “surplus energy” to extract and [...]
Mon, Apr 08 2024
Surprise Discovery of Wind Farm Project in Philippine Reserve Prompts Alarm
Editor’s note: Wind farms are not a solution to ecological destruction, especially not when built in protected reserves. Singapore-based company Rizal Wind Energy Corp. (RWEC) is drilling illegally in wildlife sanctuary and ecotourism area Masungi [...]
Fri, Apr 05 2024
Cooling the Earth by Reflecting Sunlight Back to Space
Editor’s note: As humanity, we’ve come so far as to consider – after having wreaked havoc on a perfectly functioning ecosystems on a flourishing planet – that producing clouds from seawater is a good idea. It sounds too bizarre to be [...]
