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Nuke spin vs oil spin — or no spin at all?
NICOLAS LALAGUNA argues that though the lies and lobbying of the big oil companies are now well exposed, we should not fall for nuclear energy's attempt at a ‘green sheen’ instead
The cooling towers of a nuclear power plant
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
AS THE climate crisis gets worse there is a growing tendency amongst “the 1 per cent” to divert attention from their own complicity, while at the same time shoring up our continued subservience to their exploitation.
Late last year Chris Packham, BBC presenter and patron of Population Matters, made the case that the existential threat facing humanity was being largely driven by global overpopulation. A year earlier David Attenborough, another BBC presenter and patron of Population Matters, took the same position.
Ten years before that a small group of 0.01 per centers met secretly to discuss how best to manage the future of life on Earth. Reported in the Times, the meeting was said to have been convened by Bill Gates and attended by among others Warren Buffet, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. They also apparently came to the same conclusion — that overpopulation was the key to the problem.
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