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COP 16 and the sixth extinction

COP 16 and the sixth extinction

The COP 16 Convention on Biodiversity is currently being held in Colombia; it is the first summit after the signing of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Fomented by institutions and numerous environmental groups, an agreement to stop the destruction of biodiversity and fight against the sixth mass extinction that is underway was claimed as historic[1] […]
Climate Change
Lula meets with Shell president to discuss oil in Amazonia

Lula meets with Shell president to discuss oil in Amazonia

While in New York to speak at the opening of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, President Lula met with the global president of the British multinational oil company Shell, Wael Sawan, and with the president of Shell Brazil, Cristiano Pinto. By Jeferson Choma In his UN speech, Lula spoke about wars and also about […]
Brazil
Hurricanes Helene and Milton come calling

Hurricanes Helene and Milton come calling

By RICHARD WESLEY On Thursday, Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s panhandle out of the Gulf of Mexico, causing massive devastation with a powerful storm surge. But Helene’s path of wreckage had only just begun, as it tore through the southern Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. The storm dumped […]
Climate Change
Harris vs. Trump: Who loves fracking more?

Harris vs. Trump: Who loves fracking more?

By COOPER BARD The Sept. 10 presidential debate showed clearly that the policies of the two big capitalist parties have a number of points of bipartisan collusion, including support for Israel (and by extension, its war crimes perpetrated with U.S. weaponry), increasing the USA’s military strength generally, and competition against China in the tech and […]
Climate Change
Climate barbarism is knocking at the door

Climate barbarism is knocking at the door

By Jeferson Choma The capital São Paulo and a large part of the country’s cities are living under a blanket of smoke. Earlier this week, the capital of São Paulo became the most polluted metropolis in the world. But it inherited this title from cities in the western Amazon, which last month was the most […]
Brazil
France: International mobilization for water (and more)

France: International mobilization for water (and more)

Between July 16 and 21, 2024, several meetings were held combining actions and organizations, which brought together more than 30,000 participants in western France. These meetings were part of a series of protests against the so-called “mega-basins”, artificial water reservoirs, which have stolen from the environment and society, and against which several major mobilizations have […]
Environment
Disastrous Floods in Bangladesh and Northeast India

Disastrous Floods in Bangladesh and Northeast India

The monsoons in South Asia bring regular flooding to the region. In recent years, these floods have been exacerbated by rampant and unsustainable construction across the hilly north and northeast. Today, eastern Bangladesh and northeastern India are victims of this development. Bangladesh’s floods come right after a momentous political revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of […]
Bangladesh
Tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul: Latest Chapter of Disaster Capitalism

Tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul: Latest Chapter of Disaster Capitalism

By JEFERSON CHOMA In 2005, faced with the terrible and tragic consequences and policies adopted after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States, North American analysts coined the term “Disaster Capitalism” to refer to how capitalism produces catastrophes and then takes advantage of them to prey on and profit even more from […]
Brazil
Strong Support for Palestine in the Arab World

Strong Support for Palestine in the Arab World

This week, mobilizations took place in several Arab countries in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, who are heroically resisting Israel’s brutal aggression. The most important ones took place in Amman, the capital of Jordan. By Alejandro Iturbe Western media hardly reported these mobilizations, which were filmed by participants […]
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Hague Court Allows Genocide Probing to Proceed but Rejects Ceasefire

Hague Court Allows Genocide Probing to Proceed but Rejects Ceasefire

On January 26, the International Court of Justice rejected the Israeli request to dismiss the genocide charge and confirmed its jurisdiction to try the case. Furthermore, it decided on six provisional measures, part of which appeared in South Africa’s petition.[1] By Fabio Bosco The Court could not avoid the brutal reality of an ongoing genocide […]
Palestine