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Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”

Dangerous heat waves to hit three times more often than today; tropical regions including India likely to face extreme heat conditions almost daily by the end of this century.

In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference.

When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African economies. 

Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?

In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”

Marx’s Capital ​after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism.

Journalist Daria Dugina was killed in Russia on Saturday night.

President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.

GOP war hawks slam Biden initiative for “undermining” Pentagon efforts to prey on desperate young people.

The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S.-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective.

Only 3.6 million eviction cases were filed in the entire year of 2018. The looming eviction crisis reflects the catastrophic failure of the U.S. government.

“Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”

The incident gets so little media attention despite the fact that Argentinian authorities detained 19 crew members at a Buenos Aires airport at the behest of Washington.

In his speech Friday at the Federal Reserve’s annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made one thing clear: America’s financial oligarchy is determined to make the working class bear the cost of the deepening economic crisis.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6, New King James Version Ukrainian toddler taught to “cut Russians.” The year is 2015. The little Ukrainian girl is wearing a Hello Kitty t-shirt that says “love cat.” She looks to […]

Reading and rereading the U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement last Monday on Ukraine Independence Day, one is reminded of English poet John Keats’ immortal line, ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.’ Three things are striking. 

26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.