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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The science is clear: trees cool cities, stabilise ecosystems, and save lives. Yet, across India, amid record-breaking heat, millions of trees are being removed, turning a climate crisis into a public health emergency even as State agencies clear the way for environmental safeguards to be bent or discarded.
This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again.
This newsletter is a primer on some of the key concepts needed to understand the global financial system in the context of the illegal war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran.
Trump is not the problem—the system that produced him is.
The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.
Do this, or we will kill you is capitalism’s default position. This will be so no matter what temporary changes might come to be. We ignore this truth at our peril.
‛Africa Was Not Given Democracy. It Was Given a System Designed to Fail’: Africa’s democratic decline is not a failure of culture or capacity — it is the logical outcome of a system designed from the beginning to extract, not liberate. Also: ‛Ibrahim Traoré: We Do Not Want a Democracy That Kills’.
Probably the most heinous crime, other than the avoidable accident itself and its immediate coverup, is the way that the Chornobyl nuclear power disaster in Ukraine, 40 years old this week, has been used to downplay and normalize the long-lasting health impacts caused by that April 26, 1986 explosion.
The struggle for reparative justice is a legitimate struggle that unites the peoples of the Global South with a shared history of colonization and that unites the racialized and discriminated peoples of the world.
The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations.
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