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Friday, May 17, 2024
The documentary "Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories" debunks the myths that lie at the centre of the injustice in the region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz5x5AClBBA
Last year the world set "alarming" new records in four key tests of climate health, a United Nations body has warned. The tests were greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification.António Guterres, the UN chief, described the latest World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report as a "dismal...
Two-thirds of respondents from the EU and 10 neighbouring countries reported difficulties making ends meet in the fifth round of the Living, working and COVID-19 survey. This was notably higher in EU neighbouring countries than in the EU, with 81% in neighbouring countries reporting difficulties making ends meet, compared...
On Thursday 17th March 2022 800 people in one of the wealthiest countries on the planet were sacked via zoom. Starting on that day their jobs and livelihoods were stripped from them in one 2 plus minute call. The top jobs remained. The shareholders made priority. The replacements to...
“Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle. Violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty...
Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after he was stabbed many times on stage in New York state, with his agent saying he may lose an eye. The 75-year-old author suffered severed nerves in an arm and damage to his liver, literary agent Andrew Wylie said. He was unable to speak...
The Netflix movie about a slow-motion planet-killing climate change metaphor has been the talk of the twittersphere since its release on Christmas eve.  The critics didn’t like it, but many people - including climate scientists, journalists and activists - did like it, and things got pretty heated when it was suggested by some (including the filmmakers!)...
Liverpool and Manchester United are in talks about a bombshell plot involving Europe's biggest football clubs to join a new FIFA-backed tournament that would reshape the sport's global landscape. Sky News has learnt that financiers are assembling a $6bn (£4.6bn) funding package to assist the creation of what could become...
Survival in the world of media is a stressful experience. It requires resiliance and a very strong will. Competition, limited resources and a reliance on being very quick in a fast moving news landscape can lead to excitement and dejection all at once. The corporate media have grown to the...

I see you, Ilhan Omar

I see you all over the news, your image dominating the cycle like a red sock in a white wash. You’ll be going nowhere soon, as it seems you’ve been unwillingly selected by the Republicans to be the face of their definitely-not-racist 2020 campaign. It’s page 1 of the...