The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole question of the right of poor countries to develop and to receive part of the tax revenues of the world’s multinationals and billionaires that must be asked. We need to move beyond the neo-colonial notion of international aid, paid at the whim of rich countries and under their control, and finally move towards a logic of rights.
Climate Crisis
Client Earth: The EU keeps spending money on fossil fuel infrastructure – why?
While delegates have committed to “phase down” fossil fuels and tackle methane for the first time at COP26, the EU is quietly approving a list that supports and offers funding to fossil fuel infrastructure in […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – The climate is not being destroyed by our emails: it’s being destroyed by companies that want to destroy it for profit
As this morning’s Politico email briefing notes: British officials fighting climate change reckon that if each person in the U.K. sent one fewer email a day it would cut carbon emissions by 16,000 tons a […]
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye: ICJ rules Israel’s ban on Unrwa and aid blockade violate international law
The International Court of Justice says Israel has obligation to ensure and facilitate humanitarian relief to Palestinians Read Article HERE Photo: ICJ
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