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02/01/25
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
French energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz calls promises of a green energy transition ‘a delaying tactic’ against ‘decreasing energy use.’ Screenshot via Club 44.

Jan. 2, 2025

To our peril, there’s been no green revolution. Just green addition to rising fossil fuel use.

30/12/24
Author: 
Khan, Adnan R.
Bales of crushed, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles in California (Wikimedia Commons)

Dec. 20, 2024

Efforts to target the plastic problem with better recycling, rather than a production cap, ignore how such programs turn potentially hazardous plastic waste into a commodity, fuelling a massive illicit trade

If you’re at all concerned about the alarming growth of plastic waste clogging our oceans and leaching toxins into our earth, this has not been a good year.

23/12/24
Author: 
Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
A family of refugees from Sudan arriving in Connecticut last year. People from the war-torn country are eligible for a program that allows them to live and work legally in the United States.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Dec. 20, 2024

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13/12/24
Author: 
Associated Press
Mark Rutte: ‘Our deterrence is good – for now. But it’s tomorrow I’m worried about.’ Photograph: Olivier Matthys/EPA

Dec. 13, 2024

Russian president wants to ‘wipe Ukraine off the map’ and could target other European countries next, says Mark Rutte

The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has said that Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next, as he urged Europeans to press their governments to increase defence spending.

13/12/24
Author: 
Jeffrey D. Sachs
A boy carries an unexploded Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) at the site of the previous evening's Israeli airstrike that targeted shipments of weapons that belonged to Syrian government forces in Qamishli, in mainly Kurdish northeastern Syria, on December 10, 2024. The UN special envoy for Syria called on Israel on December 10 to halt its military movements and bombardments in Syria, after a war monitor reported 300 air strikes since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/ (Photo by

Dec. 12, 2024

American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and with Iran on the brink of a nuclear arsenal.

In the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”

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