Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What it will take to Save the Planet
** This article was published on Counterpunch August 30, 2018 ** Humanity faces a multi-faceted crisis. Endless wars of imperial aggression, both overt and covert – from Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan to Yemen, Palestine and Central and South America. These conflagrations compel those at the bottom of the economic pyramid to fight and die to protect the wealth and privileges of those at the top. These wars destroy human beings and our natural environment, but also opportunities and resources that could be allocated to human betterment. Nuclear arsenals remain on hair trigger alert, with fearsome destructive potential, one accident or a single myopic policy decision away from wiping out the entire human race. Economic inequality , having already reached obscene proportions , is showing no sign of slowing down or reversing course. Racism, xenophobia, sexism and other forms of hate-filled discrimination are used to distract and divide those victi