The Road to a Sustainable Future

Clean and Green: The Road to a Sustainable Future

In this print edition...

• Clean and Green: The Road to a Sustainable Future, by David Zink
• Setting a New Agenda: Politics 2007, with Joelle Fishman
• Things Fall Apart: China and the Decline of US Imperialism, by Gerald Horne
• Current Letters (updated 3-27-07)
• Current Poetry (updated 3-27-07)

What form of transportation burns the most fuel per traveler? Air travel. In midterm election campaigns, many Democrats sharply opposed GOP policy on energy and the environment. Some called for reducing tax breaks and subsidies to oil corporations. Now that the Democrats have won control of both houses, what will they do with it?

Candidates will be judged on the issues and on the ability to continue to expand and deepen the broad people’s coalition, which is the only way we can wrest control away from the right wing.

When historians of the future look back, they may very well conclude that 2007 marked the time when the crisis of US imperialism became so obvious that even the dimmest bulb could detect it.