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Over 1,000 humanitarian workers killed distributing food, water, medicine & shelter
Of those over 1,000 deaths, more than 560 were in Gaza and the West Bank, 130 in Sudan, 60 in South Sudan, 25 in Ukraine and 25 in [the Democratic Republic of the Congo].
Mark Carney pledges $1B in taxpayer money for a ‘carbon bomb’...
It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.
Trump’s Board of Peace is a dystopia in motion
If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.
Skyrocketing military spending undermines development aid to world’s poor
Over 100 countries increased their military budgets, with the top ten spenders alone accounting for 73 percent of the total.
UN commission confirms Israel committing genocide in Gaza
Independent UN experts say Israeli authorities are carrying out genocidal acts in Gaza, warning states that failure to act amounts to complicity.
‘Tactical pause’ in name only: Israel kills dozens as starvation crisis...
As Israel touts limited pauses in its assault on Gaza, humanitarian groups decry continued attacks, worsening famine, and blocked aid as part of a deliberate campaign of suffering.
Historic court ruling says countries legally bound to prevent climate harm
This obligation, the UN’s International Court of Justice said on July 23, is grounded in existing environmental and human rights treaties.
UN climate expert urges criminalization of fossil fuel disinformation to protect...
The report presents the human rights argument for decisive political action to reduce the devastating impacts of the climate crisis.
‘Starvation by design’: Over 55,000 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces...
Palestinians seeking food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites are being killed and injured in rising numbers, as Israel enforces a siege that aid experts and survivors say is deliberately fueling chaos, displacement, and starvation.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.