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.
Geopolitics
Kadal Jesuthasan – French Dockers Block Weapons to Israel
‘Last Wednesday, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in […]
EU politics
Novara Media: The Tories Are Facing Oblivion
A political dam has broken in the United Kingdom as Britons have discovered that austerity is neither good for them or their children, that the free market is not free, but serves the interest of […]
Solutions
France 24 – Workers take to the streets in worldwide May Day protests
Round-up of May Day protests from across the world. Read the article HERE.
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