International

From July 2023, the warmest recorded July in the world, we have now entered the “global boiling point”, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres rightly pointed out. [1] The scientists are clear. The two biggest threats to the destruction of the…

The president of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier has expressed remorse for the atrocities which occurred between 1904 to 1908 under German colonial rule that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people In Namibia. Steinmeier said…

In the High Arctic, scientists discovered million-year-old methane (CH4) trapped under some of the world’s mightiest glaciers detected via unprecedented groundwater springs. Analyses of 123 springs found CH4 in all but one. As the massive glaciers recede, space opens at…

Brazil will today propose to the G20 a global alliance against hunger and poverty, coinciding with the South American country’s rotating presidency of the group this year. The initiative was proposed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva when…

A new report by Don’t Bank on the Bomb reveals that the number of financial institutions with significant investments in companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons fell from 306 to 287 in 2023. This is the third year…

Brazil is severing all diplomatic relations with Israel and has decided to expel Israel’s ambassador to Brazil and recall its ambassador to Tel Aviv. This was announced today by President Luis Ignacio Da Silva in response to the ongoing genocide…

How Nations Could End Israeli Genocide: Stop the Weapons; Stop the Oil; Stop the Tech By Marcy Winograd If the nations of the world–particularly the United States and the Arab countries–wanted to stop Israel’s slaughter, torture and ethnic cleansing in…

A “Love for Living Animals” Essay   Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem,  The Raven, has through generations, led people to know about this bird for the first time. The poem turned Poe from a nobody to an overnight celebrity. Children followed…

Chinese State Councillor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong and US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas agreed to implement the important consensus reached at the San Francisco meeting between the heads of state of the two countries.  During…

These are the worst of times, but they can become the best of times, said speaker Walden Bello, trying to inspire thousands of progressive activists gathered at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Kathmandu on Thursday, 15 February, with the…