Category: Animal
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Heatwave 2.0
June 2023 was the hottest June on record. Each year continues to get hotter and hotter due to the climate crisis. Humankind has known that our rapid industrialization has altered the Earth’s atmosphere. In the long run, the Earth will survive, but humankind will be on the ropes. Again I quote the legendary comedian George Carlin. Who once…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Tunisian black women: ‘My skin colour says I don’t belong’ In 2018, Tunisia passed a landmark law to criminalise racial discrimination, in particular anti-black racism against black Tunisians and black African migrants. It became the first country in the Arab region to make discrimination specifically on racial grounds a criminal offence. #Tunisia #Racism #BlackLivesMatter #Africa…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
BIDEN IS SELLING WEAPONS TO THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD’S AUTOCRACIES Rather, the new figures reveal the continuity between Republican and Democratic administrations. While Biden signaled early on that his arms sales policy would be based primarily on strategic and human rights considerations, not just economic interests, he broke from that policy not too long after entering…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
France: the struggle surges forward – Macron must fall! Young people were out in force on Thursday, and huge general assemblies have sprung up in many places. School students mobilised in more than 400 high-schools. University occupations started in 80 universities across the country, including in the traditionally right-wing Paris-Panthéon Assas university, which was blocked…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Amid mass strikes, France’s Morenoite Révolution permanente group embraces capitalist rule For nearly two months, mass protest strikes by millions of workers and youth have continued in France against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts. Three-quarters of the French people oppose the cuts, and 60 percent want a general strike to halt the economy and bring down Macron. Amid the greatest…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US secures deal on Philippines bases to complete arc around China In an editorial published to coincide with the arrival of the US defense secretary in Manila, China’s state-run Global Times accused the US of “setting a trap for the Philippines” and “trying to push the Philippines to the frontline of confrontation with China”.”We are…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Goodbye empire? US sanctions are failing in the face of multipolarity Whether or not Kiev will be thrown under a bus by its Western backers in due course, and the anti-Russian measures will endure after the war is over, seems to not matter so much, though – for, as Demarais was herself forced to acknowledge…
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The People’s Forest
Nothing Defunded ATL didn’t defund the police. They gave them more money. I’ve lived in ATL since 2015, and it’s always been a city of the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots.’ However, the gap between rich and poor has only gotten worse since the pandemic started. Tent cities and beggars are on almost every street corner. Atlanta…
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Santa Isn’t Real, and other fables
Imagination is a beautiful gift we humans have, and no other being on Earth possesses it from what we know. Children often have an overactive imagination, and we’ve created fables in our different cultures to cultivate kids’ imaginations. It’s not a problem to believe in fairy tales when you’re a six-year-old, but it’s far different from believing in fantasy…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Did the world make progress on climate change? Here’s what was decided at global talks “We call for reduced CO2 emissions,” said Zambia’s environment minister Collins Nzovu after the meeting ended. “That’s a basic issue. Right now, as it is, we will not reach 1.5 [degrees Celsius]. We are off the map completely.” #COP27 #ClimateChange…
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