The Paris agreement, signed by virtually every nation on earth, is at once an historic achievement and a monument to inadequacy. If implemented, it foreshadows the end of the fossil fuel industry, but it can only succeed if civil society–activists, local governments, business, faith and civic leaders–throughout the world push even harder to keep fossil fuels in the ground and move the global economy toward zero-carbon practices:… Read more

Donald Trump, the pending Climate-Denier-In Chief, threatens to accelerate the race towards climate catastrophe.  Photo-opportunities by Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio won’t stop him.  Instead, heed the words of ExxonMobil’s chief media officer in my review of Obama’s climate record the past eight years–governments have to respond when there are massive numbers of people in the streets:… Read more

Edward Snowden admits he broke the law by leaking secret documents to journalists but says the system left him no other choice.  As John Crane, a former senior Pentagon official,  reveals in my new book, Bravehearts, his colleagues too often persecute the very whistle blowers they are supposed to protect.   I argue in The New York Times that Snowden should be allowed to make this argument in court, which current US law forbids:… Read more

Maybe Edward Snowden did the right thing after all? Or so implies Eric Holder, the Obama administration’s former Attorney General, in calling Snowden’s whistle blowing “a public service.” But Holder, like Obama and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, still claims Snowden should have raised his concerns through official channels instead. Read the following articlein The Nation, adapted from my new book, Bravehearts: Whistle Blowing in the Age of Snowden, to see why such advice is disingenuous at best:… Read more

Extracted from my new book, Bravehearts, the scoop reveals a secret new chapter in the Edward Snowden story–so secret, even Snowden didn’t know about it.  John Crane, a former senior Pentagon official, comes forward publicly for the first time to reveal how his superiors broke the law to silence whistle blowers’ testimonies and ruin their lives. Snowden drew the logical conclusion: he had to go outside the system. Read this extract from Bravehearts, in the Guardian…. Read more

Pity the poor fossil fuel industry! New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman warns ExxonMobil and its industry brethren that “dramatic changes” are ahead in a Nation interview where he discusses the need to pursue both “transactional” and “transformational” politics:… Read more