Tag: climate emergency
2023: A year of global human rights regression amid political expediency
Human Rights Watch's 2024 report exposes a year of global human rights backsliding amidst political compromises.
Over 84 million people forcibly displaced by climate emergency, insecurity, and...
“The international community must redouble its efforts to make peace, and at the same time must ensure resources are available to displaced communities and their hosts.”
220+ medical journals unite to demand urgent action on climate emergency
“The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C and to restore nature,” warn journals in unprecedented joint editorial.
Greta Thunberg: New IPCC Report is a wake-up call for all...
“The climate crisis is not going away. It’s only escalating, and it’s only growing more intense by the hour.”
Scientists who issued ‘climate emergency’ declaration in 2019 now say Earth’s...
A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.
Jane Fonda arrested: We are in a climate emergency. I have...
We speak with Jane Fonda about her climate activism and why she started Fire Drill Fridays.
‘Climate emergency. Look it up.’: Activists and experts celebrate New Oxford...
“STAY LOUD, it's working,” declared Greenpeace Canada.
Fascism then and now
A new book
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled “Fascism, Then and...
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.