Above photo: Elnur Soltanov speaks at the Baku Climate Action Week in Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sept. 30, 2024. Aziz Karimov / Getty Images. Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations COP29 Climate Change Conference Elnur Soltanov has been recorded by Global Witness apparently…
Above photo: The COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference sign sits outside the COP29 headquarters in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy. One of the sponsors of the UK pavilion has worked with major polluters to help them extract more oil and gas. The UKâs pavilion at this yearâs…
Above photo: Lebanese are seen on October 11, 2024 amid the rubble of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut that killed at least 22 people. Sami Boudra/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images. Statement by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. The following is a statement issued Oct. 23, 2024…
And Decline Of Progressivism. On the afternoon of June 26, 2024, several militant vehicles and around 300 members of the Bolivian militia and military police, under the command of General Commander of the Armed Forces Gen. Rudy RodrĂguez, burst into the Murillo Square in La Paz, surrounded the access…
Above photo: Vice President Kamala Harris is greeted by Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney during a campaign event at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin on October 3, 2024. Mark Schiefelbein/AP. ââŠPeople know that somethingâs wrong; Everybody oughta know winterâŠThe truth is there ainât nobody…
Vermonters pay the highest prices nationwide for individual health coverage. On a warm autumn morning, Roger Brown walked through a grove of towering trees whose sap fuels his maple syrup business. He was checking for damage after recent flooding. But these days, his workersâ health worries him more…
Above photo: LA Times. Charge Leadership with Complicity in Israelâs Genocide of the Palestinian People. Oakland, CA, October 14, 2024, 9 amâToday at 9 am, faculty, staff, and students of the University of California and concerned community members launched the UC Peopleâs Tribunal for Palestine…
Above photo: Pro-Palestinian protest in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, Oct. 13, 2023. Abazizfahad, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Yara Hawari reflects on the immense losses for the Palestinian people since October 2023. And the need, after the failure of international law, for the liberation movement to set new priorities…
ï»ż Kamala Harris Failed To Provide An Economic Alternative. Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election in a landslide. Unlike in 2016, where Trump won the electoral college but lost the popular vote, this time he got 4 million more votes than his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. Why was Harris…
Above photo: Donald Trump celebrates victory on election night. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson. Donald Trumpâs victory over Kamala Harris must be a wake up call to Black people. The Democratic Party is a dead end and a movement killer. Our survival depends on getting that corrupt wing of the duopoly…
ï»ż Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States and given the host of global debacles the US has its hands inâranging from the genocide in Gaza, to Israelâs attacks on Lebanon and Iran to the Ukraine warânobody is quite certain what direction the country will take with the…
Above photo: Displaced Palestinians ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate the northern part of Gaza flee amid an Israeli military operation in Jabalia, October 25, 2024. Mahmoud Issa/Quds Net News via ZUMA Press Wire/APA Images. Says It Will Expand Offensive To Beit Lahia. Spokesperson Yitzhak…
Above photo: (Ćriwa TahupĆtiki Haddon (NgÄti Ruanui), Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, c. 1940. Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region. From the assault on MÄori rights in…
Above photo: The Made In Baltimore Holiday Store, a locally-made craft goods shop in Baltimoreâs Harborplace. Made in Baltimore. Baltimore is building out the most robust support for small-scale manufacturing of any city in the nation. One of the crucial economic lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is…
Above photo: A flooded Mobil gas station in Vidor, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey on Sept 1, 2017. Julie Dermansky Former ExxonMobil climate scientist Lindsey Gulden: âIt was after I was fired for reporting a garden variety fraud that I really sat back and thought about the implications for climate…
Countries must find real solutions for climate action and climate finance and reject false solutions such as biomass energy, says the Biomass Action Network as the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Climate Convention is set to open in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 11 November. COP29: False Solutions…
Above photo: Representatives from the militaries of Peru, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, France and the United States pose for a group photo during the opening ceremony for Resolute Sentinel 2024 at Grupo 4 in La Joya, Peru, May 27, 2024. SOUTHCOM. As the people of Peru continue to rise up against…
Above photo: Khaled Kwaik. On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from carrying out âany activityâ in Israel and occupied Palestine. Simply put, the decision is catastrophic, because UNRWA…
Should Harris supporters blame the Left for their candidateâs defeat? No, they should blame the two-party system. To my liberal friend who campaigned for Kamala Harris, I know youâre probably looking for explanations for your candidateâs resounding defeat. You may be itching to blame it on those…
Make The U.S. Ungovernable! So, it happened. The racist, reactionary fool Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and Republicans will dominate Congress. The polarization of American political life is sharpening and deepening. Revolutionaries and progressives have some heavy lifting ahead of us…
Above photo: Trump holds election rally in North Carolina shortly before winning the election. @realDonaldTrump/X. Some results indicate that rejection of Harris does not equal rejection of progressive policy. Former president, TV personality, and businessman Donald Trump was elected on November 5 to…
Above photo: LIFEbeat values and creative approaches give space for young people to explore the challenges they face and find power. Gani Naylor. Young people today find themselves on the front line of a rapidly changing world. Whether actively engaged with climate issues or not, these issues will undoubtedly…
Above photo: EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra (left), and COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (right). European Commission / Claudio Centonze. Campaigners say the European Commission has âcompletely embarrassed itselfâ by offering âflimsy excusesâ for taking oil and gas lobbyists to the…
Above photo: People walk past a COP29 sign in front of the COP29 headquarters in Baku, Azerbaijan on Nov. 5, 2024. Aziz Karimov / Getty Images. Leaders from some of the worldâs major economies, including the European Union, the United States and Brazil, will not be attending the United Nations Climate…
Above photo: INA. Israel awaits the Iranian response to its escalation in the regional war. US officials are demanding Baghdad âexert controlâ over local resistance factions. Iraqâs Ministerial Council for National Security on 6 November denied western media reports that say Iran is âplanning…
