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To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano
“Climate week” is about to start in New York City, and my inbox has been awash in the latest press releases about start-ups and noble initiatives and venal greenwashing. Much of it’s important, and...
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Scott Ritter: Israel’s Collapse Is Imminent Amid Escalation In Lebanon
It sometimes feels like the world is on the brink of war. Israel has just escalated the conflict in the Middle East with a massive attack on Lebanon, implanting bombs in hundreds of pagers and other...
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How the Climate Crisis Is Shaping Geopolitics
Bangladesh was still reeling from political turmoil, which felled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government on August 5, when a flood disaster struck out of the blue, upending the lives of 6 million...
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UN Officials Urgently Call for Lebanon Cease-Fire as Middle East on ‘Brink of...
As Israel followed up its remote bombings of communications devices in Lebanon with airstrikes on Beirut, the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session Friday during which officials...
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To Fight Climate Change, Fix Congress
If last month’s Democratic National Convention was any indication, climate action has all but vanished from the Democratic Party platform. Presidential nominee Kamala Harris only glancingly referenced...
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A Circular Economy
Between 1942 and 1964, migrant Mexican farm and railroad workers labored for low and often delayed pay under the U.S. Government’s Bracero Program. According to the 2023 paper “The Bracero Program and...
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A New Ireland: Owned and Run By the Ordinary People Not the Profiteers
[This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing...
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Fears of ‘Imminent Catastrophe’ Mount as Hezbollah Hits Back Amid Israeli...
Fears of an all-out Middle East war mounted Sunday as Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets into Israel, whose military continued bombing targets in southern Lebanon while moving troops, tanks, and...
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Louisiana’s Black Rural Residents Feel Neglected in Wake of Hurricane Francine
On Tuesday, six days after Hurricane Francine smashed into Louisiana’s coast as the strongest storm of this year’s hurricane season, the Biden administration announced a major disaster declaration for...
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War Forever, Everywhere
Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual battlefields. This has been true of America’s post-9/11 forever wars that,...
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One Nation, One Election, One Party, One Leader: Modi’s Plan Must Be Nipped...
Was there a more ominously forgettable idea spawned in independent India that all governments once elected simultaneously must be made independent of the electorate for five years, no matter what...
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Anti-Immigrant Agitation in a Nation of Immigrants
In recent days, Donald Trump and his Republican running mate, JD Vance, have doubled down on their false and defamatory claims about legally-admitted Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, thus...
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Corporations Plunder US West’s Water Amid Worst Drought in 1,200 Years
Rural La Paz County, Arizona, positioned on the Colorado River across from California, is at the center of a growing fight over water in the American Southwest. At the heart of the battle is a...
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The Pro-Palestine Student Movement Should Unite With the Boeing Workers’ Strike
On September 18, students walked out of a job fair at Cornell University, one of the elite universities that organized an unprecedented student movement in solidarity with Palestine and that also...
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Trump’s Hate
The FBI is investigating the source of suspicious packages sent to election offices in 21 states. Some election offices have been evacuated; staff are frightened. Suspicious packages, bomb threats,...
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Activist Diary #5: Running With the Prison Vans at Southwark
[This article is part of ZNetwork.org‘s series, Activist Diaries.] My chest is still sore like having done too many push-ups, or taken a knock. It’s from the shoves of the police “Get back” as they...
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Could 2025 End Up a Nightmare for Our Tax-Averse Rich?
We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on our tax system of all things. Most everyone considers how we...
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How Michel Barnier’s New Government Has Turned to the Right – And Into a Dead...
On Saturday President Emmanuel Macron appointed France’s most rightwing government in twelve years. All factions on the Right are represented in prime minister Michel Barnier’s team, even if this has...
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US Sending Troops to Middle East as Biden Insists He’s Working on De-Escalation
The Pentagon has announced that it is sending additional U.S. troops to the Middle East “out of an abundance of caution” after Israel launched a series of attacks on Lebanon that have killed hundreds...
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“New ERA” to Leverage $29 Billion to Propel a Just Transition for Rural...
Two years ago, the Rural Power Coalition (RPC) celebrated a landmark victory when the Inflation Reduction Act officially funded the $9.7 billion Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program, the most...
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