Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite. A MintPress News study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to barely a handful, precisely as she widens her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza, which the Swedish activist has labeled a “genocide.”
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Key takeaways from the IPCC report on climate impacts and adaptation
IPCC reports are becoming a parody of themselves: unpolitical, always still hope when we meet 1.5 degree warming (that is dead as a doornail). Fact is, little is happening – if anything – to stop […]
Geopolitics
Politico – EU’s game plan for Trump trade war: ‘Hit back fast and hard’
The EU has a plan to respond to tariff’s imposed by a Trump administration if he wins the election in a couple of weeks’ time. Whether it will work or not is another matter. Read […]
Environment
Nick Dearden: Tricks of the trade
Liam Fox is planning bargain-basement trade deals for Brexit Britain – but Labour policy promises to deliver trade justice and democracy for the many. Read here
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