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30/06/23
Author: 
Orinoco Tribune.
Photo: EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meeting US President Joe Biden last year, at the G20 summit in Bali. European Commission.

June 29, 2023

New Report By The European Council On Foreign Relations.

A report issued by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has warned that the European Union is being vassalized by the United States. According to the policy brief, authored by Jeremy Shapiro and Jana Puglierin, the process of vassalization has been accelerated by the US direction of European foreign policy during the Russia–Ukraine conflict.

30/06/23
Author: 
Henry Heller, Canadian Dimension.
Photo: Intersyndicale parading during a demonstration for the defense of public services, Dijon, France, May 22, 2018. Haldu/Wikimedia Commons.

June 29, 2023

In The Face Of Rapidly Increasing Levels Of Exploitation, A Global Awakening Of The Working Class Has Taken Place.

After years of passivity in the face of upper class greed workers have begun to fight back. Recent walkouts in Canada and around the world reflect a pattern of rising participation of workers in strike activity, evident since 2020 as a belated response to years of wage suppression and recent spectacular increases in consumer prices.

24/06/23
Author: 
Guardian staff and agencies
A man uses water bottles for flotation as he cools off in a canal in Beijing amid the heatwave while swathes of northern China sweltered in 40-degree temperatures. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images

June 23, 2023

Nanjiao weather station in southern Beijing hits 41.1C, half a degree higher than the station’s previous monthly record

Beijing logged its hottest June day since records began on Thursday, the national weather service said, as swathes of northern China sweltered in 40-degree heat.

23/06/23
Author: 
Samuel Petrequin & Sylvie Corbet
Engineers walk next to solar panels at Benban Solar Park in Aswan, Egypt, on Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

June 22nd 2023

Facing an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials in suits, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate silenced the room, then made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts.

23/06/23
Author: 
Tim Smedley
Baitings reservoir in Ripponden, West Yorkshire, in summer 2022, when the total stock of water in England's reservoirs was at its lowest level since 1995. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
June 15, 2023

While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach

13/06/23
Author: 
John Feffer
Posco prospects a lithium salt lake in Argentina. (courtesy of Posco Holdings)
 
Entrepreneurs and adventurers have long traveled the world in search of gold. European empires looted Latin America for its silver and tin. Diamonds attracted the rapacious to Africa. Oil has built enormous empires of wealth in the Gulf states.

 

 

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