This is well and truly a milestone. Interesting are the two nations that abstained. Britain, because it is scheduled to leave the EU and does this on principle and Germany because of its endemic corporate crime. Germany does not have a whistle-blower law. That was very convenient during the diesel scandal. This is unfortunately only in German, but here is an intervention by Germany against the law: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/parlements_nationaux/com/2018/0218/DE_BUNDESRAT_CONT1-COM(2018)0218_DE.pdf
Aviation
Stay Grounded: Eight ways airlines exploit their own customers
Airlines have a long record of screwing over the very people who use their services Read HERE Photo: Bahnfrend/Creative Commons
Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK – Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model
Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change. Read here
Geopolitics
Stavroula Pabst: American security contractors walking thin line in Gaza
Former private soldiers say this new way of war — unofficial boots on the ground — could go sideways, while giving governments political cover Read HERE
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