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Tarik Cyril Amar: No Feet of Clay
How We Are Repeating a History of Underestimating Russia Read HERE
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EU politics
Politico: Tunisia hands back €60M of EU funding as migrant deal tensions soar
North African country accuses Brussels of breaching a controversial migration pact. Read HERE
Economics
DeStatis – Germany: Production in August 2023: -2% year on year
Germany’s economy continues to decline. Production in industry August 2023 (in real terms, provisional): -0.2% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -2.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) July 2023 […]
National Politics
LBC News: Israel ‘has the right’ to withhold power and water from Gaza, says Sir Keir Starmer
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer gives a green light to genocide. Read the article HERE. Photo by Chris Boland CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Environment
Michał Gzowski – “Poland’s forests make a tasty morsel for the Eurocrats”
The EU is looking to increase its power over forestry, a potential concern for Poland, where one-third of the country is covered by trees. Published by ‘Sovereignty.pl’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): A destabilizing link – Amazon rainforest degradation and deforestation endanger the South American monsoon
The impacts of global warming, deforestation and intensified land use are pushing the South American monsoon towards a critical destabilization point, a new study published in the journal Science Advances shows. Read HERE Photo: Ibama/Creative […]
Energy
Transport & Environment: E-fuels would emit ‘five times as much as electric cars’ if EU criteria weakened
New analysis shows that e-petrol cars would emit 61 gCO2e/km under the Renewable Energy Directive’s criteria for carbon neutrality. Read HERE
EU politics
Euronews: EU to review its Palestine financial aid
After a European Commissioner announced that they were suspending all aid payments repeatedly, the European Commission has rushed out a revision after coming under criticisms from some EU member-states saying the aid is “under review” […]
EU politics
Euronews – Migration, defence, competitiveness: Here’s what will drive the EU’s work for the next five years
What’s in store from our unelected European Commission in the next half-decade. Read the article HERE.
National Politics
Tariq Ali: Uprising in Palestine
The Palestinian people have tried every method to achieve some form of meaningful self-determination. ‘Renounce violence’, they were told. They did, apart from the odd reprisal after an Israeli atrocity. Among Palestinians at home and […]