Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben: Big Heat and Big Oil
Shell’s CEO chose the hottest day in human history to announce he was reneging on the company’s climate pledges. Read HERE
Month: July 2023
Climate Crisis
Jem Bendell – Q&A about the book Breaking Together
Prof Jem Bendell took questions from participants in the Deep Adaptation Leadership group on LinkedIn about his new book. Thanks to many generous donors BRAVE NEW EUROPE will be able to continue its work for […]
Climate Crisis
GPEnewsdocs – Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive says Economist Jayati Ghosh
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policy makers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems and a managed transition to healthy sustainable patterns […]
Climate Crisis
Caitlin Johnstone – Profit-driven systems are driving us to our doom
Capitalism is the driving force behind the climate emergency Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium First published by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter […]
National Politics
Chris Bambery – The Failing ‘Counter-Offensive’ Reflects US Interests, Not Ukraine’s
Ukraine is months into a counter-offensive which has won little territory but cost many lives. US and western policy makers are not being honest about the tactics they are pushing Chris Bambery is a Writer, […]
Climate Crisis
Omar Yampey – The UN’S Green Climate Fund Must Stop Financing False Solutions
Climate finance must be redirected away from greenwashing and towards real solutions like a just transition, helping frontline communities, conservation, protection of land and forests, and reforestation Omar T. Yampey is sociologist and MSc candidate […]
National Politics
Jonathan Cook – NATO isn’t defending Ukraine. It’s stabbing it in the back
The US and its allies are sustaining the very war they now cite as grounds for disqualifying Kyiv from Nato membership Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka: Rampant corporate power is destroying our democracy
People have a choice: we can have rampant corporate power or democracy, but not both. Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Christiana Figueres: I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong
Their unprecedented profits over the past year have shown their unwillingness to adapt. Read HERE
Economics
German Foreign Policy: EU’s Latin America Offensive
In the run-up to next week’s EU-CELAC summit, resistance grows in Latin America against exploitation as a raw material supplier to EU. Latin American countries demand reparations for colonial crimes. Read HERE