I have only ever known Julian Assange in detention. For nine years now, I have visited him in England bearing Australian news and solidarity. To Ellingham Hall I brought music and chocolate, to the Ecuadorian embassy I brought flannel shirts, Rake, Wizz Fizz and eucalyptus leaves, but to Belmarsh prison you can bring nothing—not a gift, not a book, not a piece of paper.
Economics
Frances Coppola: The Sorry State Of We
The We Company has now formally withdrawn the S-1 registration for the IPO it suspended two weeks ago. The proposed equity fundraising of about $3.5bn had been widely expected to fail after being universally panned […]
Climate Crisis
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy – Sweden: A Great Victory Has Been Won over Fossil Capital
On Monday, September 28, 2020, Sweden’s largest oil refinery, Preem, decided to withdraw its application for an expansion of its refinery in Lysekil on the Swedish west coast. Read here
Climate Crisis
phys.org: Climate: Removing CO2 from the air no longer optional
The burning question going into the Glasgow climate summit is whether major economies can, by 2050, reduce emissions enough to deliver a carbon neutral world in which humanity no longer adds planet-warming gases to the […]
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