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  • How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions

    How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on May 23, 2023 by Alistair Walsh (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted May 25, 2023)

    Under current climate change policies, billions will face life-threatening heat. But a global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.

  • “street art” campaign

    Graffiti writers are painting over a pro-police “street art” campaign backed by a tech billionaire in San Francisco

    Originally published: It's Going Down on May 22, 2023 by It's Going Down (more by It's Going Down) (Posted May 25, 2023)

    A “street art” campaign backed by Welsh tech billionaire and venture capitalist Michael Moritz is being targeted by graffiti artists in San Francisco, California.

  • The illuminating influence of Eric Huntley

    The illuminating influence of Eric Huntley

    Originally published: Freedom News on May 20, 2023 by Rohan Rice (more by Freedom News)  | (Posted May 25, 2023)

    When I sat down with Eric Huntley it was under the premise of interviewing him about the new community garden that he has established—along with filmmaker and organiser Sukant Chandan—in the London borough of Ealing, just minutes away from where he and his late-wife, Jessica Huntley, ran their bookshop and publishing house.

  • Saudi-Israeli normalization

    The U.S. continues to lose Middle East power and ‘Tel Aviv’ makes things worse

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on May 23, 2023 by Robert Inlakesh (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted May 24, 2023)

    If the U.S. wishes to navigate its way in a world where it no longer rules, but shares power with China, it must reconnect with reality.

  • Malcolm X / Africa

    Malcolm X’s revolutionary trip to Africa

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 22, 2023 by African Stream (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted May 24, 2023)

    African Stream tells the story of Malcolm X’s political transformation that led to his assassination a few months after his return.

  • Iroel Sánchez Espinosa (Photo: cubadebate.cu)

    Cuba: Biden’s moral debt

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on May 22, 2023 by Atilio A. Boron (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted May 24, 2023)

    Atilio A. Boron: “I write these lines motivated by the pain caused to so many of us by the untimely physical demise of the Cuban intellectual, journalist, computer warrior and revolutionary Iroel Sánchez Espinosa.”

  • Tamim Daoud, 5, died of fear in the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza. (Photo: Supplied)

    ‘Beautiful Dreams’: The 5-year-old Palestinian kindergartener who died of fear

    Originally published: Palestine Chronicle on May 22, 2023 by Nada Al Kahlout (more by Palestine Chronicle)  | (Posted May 24, 2023)

    Mohammed is still grieving, and he cannot help thinking about what life would have been if Tamim was still alive, disassembling and reassembling his toys, his head filled with beautiful dreams.

  • CO2 de China (Photo: joaquimelcacho.blogspot.com)

    Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023

    Originally published: Carbon Brief on May 12, 2023 by Lauri Myllyvirta and Qi Qin (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted May 23, 2023)

    China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 4% in the first quarter of 2023, reaching a record high for the first three months of the year.

  • An Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fires an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile during training at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, March 10, 2021. [Photo: Department of Defense/Air Force 1st Lt. Savanah Bray ]

    U.S. announces plans to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on May 19, 2023 by Andre Damon (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted May 23, 2023)

    On Friday, the White House announced the most reckless and dangerous escalation of its involvement in the war with Russia to date, that it has decided to train Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets and send the nuclear-capable planes to the battlefield.

  • Photo: Thomas Hawk via Flickr

    Judge reinstates ‘zero bail’ policy in Los Angeles

    Originally published: The Appeal on May 18, 2023 by Meg O'Connor (more by The Appeal)  | (Posted May 23, 2023)

    A preliminary injunction issued this week forbids officials from forcing people charged with low-level offenses to remain in jail because they cannot afford bail.

  • Switzerland flag

    Switzerland is in danger

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on May 9, 2023 by Peter Hänseler (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted May 23, 2023)

    On Swiss neutrality.

  • Photo released on June 11, 2021 by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shows a selfie of China's first Mars rover Zhurong with the landing platform. (CNSA/Handout via Xinhua)

    Chinese researchers discover evidence of ancient ocean on Mars

    Originally published: Global Times on May 19, 2023 by Global Times (more by Global Times)  | (Posted May 22, 2023)

    An international team of researchers led by Chinese scholars has made another groundbreaking discovery on the surface of Mars.

  • U.S. Army rocket system used for a live fire event during Balikatan 23 war exercises in the Philippines, April 26.

    Biden drops ‘One China’ policy, uses Philippines for war drive over Taiwan

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 20, 2023 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 22, 2023)

    Pentagon strategists have been beefing up their military presence in Asia and building alliances in preparation for an all-out war against China.

  • Satellite images showing sea surface temperature anomaly as of May 17, 2023. | Photo: Twitter/ @ESA_EO

    Climate change increasing La Niña & El Niño severity

    Originally published: teleSUR English (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted May 22, 2023)

    During La Nina events, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are lower than the long-term average, causing cooler global temperatures and vice-versa for El Nino.

  • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 'The Rebel Girl,' addresses strikers in Paterson, N.J. in 1913.

    60 years after death, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn still scares the right

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on May 17, 2023 by C.J. Atkins (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted May 22, 2023)

    Although she’s been dead for almost six decades, it looks like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is still getting under the skin of right-wingers. Just two weeks after it was installed, a historical marker commemorating her birth in Concord, N.H., has been demolished on the order of Republican state officials.

  • A TRUCK LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES COVERED WITH ORANGES, PARKED OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE OF JAFFA ‘S GRAND SERAI, WAS DETONATED BY MEMBERS OF THE LEHI-STERN GANG, DESTROYING THE BUILDING AND KILLING 26 PALESTINIAN MARTYRS, JANUARY 4, 1948. (PHOTO: INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES INTERACTIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PALESTINE QUESTION)

    The ongoing Nakba means ongoing resistance

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 18, 2023 (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 20, 2023)

    The “ongoing Nakba” means that the Zionist drive to expel and eliminate the Palestinian people continues to this day. That is why Palestinian resistance to Zionism will remain as long as Zionism exists.

  • Discussing ecology and entropy

    Discussing ecology and entropy

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on May 17, 2023 by Stuart Jordan (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted May 20, 2023)

    Workers’ Liberty organises a monthly Marxist ecology reading group. This month they discussed a chapter on “Entropy and ecological economics” from ‘Marxism and Ecological Economics’ by Paul Burkett.

  • China's Peace in West Asia

    China’s peace in West Asia

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on May 18, 2023 by Janna Kadri (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted May 20, 2023)

    The Chinese-brokered agreement emerged in retaliation to the U.S. as the latter continues to wage a series of provocations aimed at destabilizing China’s domestic stability with regard to Taiwan.

  • Underwater atomic test carried out at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Photograph: United States Government Navy

    The splendor of a thousand suns: Hiroshima and imperial forgetfulness

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on May 18, 2023 by Gonzalo Armúa (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted May 20, 2023)

    Joe Biden’s visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of “a thousand suns” on a defenseless population.

  • Moldova

    Leaked recordings expose shocking state corruption in ‘U.S. governed’ Moldova

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 18, 2023 by Kit Klarenberg (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted May 20, 2023)

    The Grayzone has obtained video recordings of well-connected figures within Moldova’s political and business community openly testifying to rank corruption within the country’s government and economy, while outlining schemes to enrich Western investors for an appropriate fee.

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