We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. On the other hand, it is also a social crisis: several billion people are deprived of access to basic goods and services. More than 40 percent of the human population cannot afford nutritious food; 50 percent do not have safely managed sanitation facilities; 70 percent do not have necessary health care.
Finance
Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian cyberattack targets Russia’s central bank, source says
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) on July 29 carried out a cyberattack against the Russian central bank, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent. Read HERE Main computing centre, Central Bank of Russia […]
Racism
Gary Younge: How the far right has perfected the art of deniable racism
There is much more racism in Europe than meets the eye. Gary Younge identifies only far-right parties. This is also true for many parties the call themselves Liberal, not to mention the right-wing of Christian […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: Losing It
First when we admit that mainstream media is not defending our democratic rights, but instead destroying democracy and the planet, then turn our back on it to develop truly democratic media, do we have a […]
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