As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Global warming consequences are now unavoidable
A new IPCC report released this week says it’s already too late to turn back the climate damage that’s already been inflicted – and it’s going to get worse, says CJ ATKINS
APOCALYPSE NOW: The Parnitha mountain wildfire in the village of Ippokratios Politia, Greece, about 35 kilometres north of Athens
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
IT’S TOO late to reverse the massive damage humanity has done to the Earth’s climate, and deadly weather is already baked into our future.
That’s the conclusion from a depressing new report issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that forecasts the effects of human activity on the climate.
The grim assessment was confirmed by Linda Mearns, senior climate scientist at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research.
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