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The core idea of the Summit of the Future is that humanity is facing a set of unprecedented challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation.

From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion—a reality obscured by Western propaganda.

CounterSpin interview with David Himmelstein on privatized Medicare.

In Asian media this week: Dangerous turn adds new anti-Beijing flashpoint. Plus: Bangkok banks used to supply Myanmar military; Why Hindu nationalists back Israel; Thais opt for neutrality in great-power war; How to stop China slipping into Japan trap; Online gambling an Indonesian epidemic.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables.

Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story.

Letter published by experts in the British medical journal estimated that some 10,000 people could still be buried in the rubble in Gaza.

NATO Summit to take place in U.S. capital as the United States provides unconditional support for Israeli genocide.

How can we trace the wounds of colonialism in the art historical record?

The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.

There are roughly four proximate features of capitalist poverty.

PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a valuable contribution to a wider understanding of the remarkable human rights activist turned Irish freedom fighter.

In order to allow for a deeper understanding of the ongoing conflict in the Congo today, this newsletter presents an analysis of the resource theft and processes of imperialism and colonialism that have long plagued this part of Africa, including the fight over raw materials that are key for the electronic age.

The lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has been something of a zombie idea in public discourse, popping up again and again in corporate media despite numerous proclamations that it’s finally been debunked.

VA writer Andreína Chávez delves into Washington’s soft power strategies to destabilize countries in the name of Western-style “democracy.”

Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want.

If we want to protect consumers from disease and price-gouging, we need to tackle the food monopolies and industrial factory farms that control our food system.

Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.

CEOs state outright that profit must come first, even as this year’s deadly heat waves providing worrying evidence of the rising climate emergency, reports John Clarke.

U.S. and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the U.S. is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.