Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor is the press secretary for Global Justice Ecology Project and the host of the podcast Breaking Green. Beginning his environmental work in the 1990s opposing clearcutting in Shawnee National Forest, Taylor was awarded the Leo and Kay Drey Award for Leadership from the Missouri Coalition for the Environment for his work as co-founder of the Times Beach Action Group.

September 30, 2026

Columns/Geopolitics

Inside the United Nations Tunnel

This month, like every year, the United Nations General Assembly takes place. Heads of State take the floor to send messages to the world. These messages are broadcast on TV, transcribed, and

Columns/Human Rights

The Greater Isolation of Lesser Israel

When Benjamin Netanyahu rose to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, the rows of empty seats spoke before he did. Diplomats walked out, while others stayed away from the outset. News reports citing an Israeli tally put

September 30, 2026

What Sri Lanka’s Easter Judgment Finally Reveals

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of

Exclusive: Inside Sri Lanka’s Easter Plot — Read the Full TAB Judgment

Geopolitics/Human Rights/Judiciary

The 22 September 2026 Trial-at-Bar judgment provides a detailed account of the alleged network behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, tracing the prosecution’s

Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry

August 26, 2023

Columns/Education/Human Rights

Valued for its termite-resistant wood for building purposes, pulp to create products like writing and toilet paper, and its oil, which has numerous health and household benefits, the eucalyptus tree generates big

We’ve Never Been Closer to Nuclear Catastrophe—Who Gains by Ignoring It?

February 9, 2023

Human Rights/Interviews

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length. A video of the description of nuclear war from the interview can be viewed on Vimeo. Listen to the entire interview, available for

Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Victims of Climate Change

October 27, 2022

Interviews

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length from the author’s conversation with Nnimmo Bassey on October 7, 2022. For access to the full interview’s audio and transcript, you