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UN urges world to act now to combat ‘looming water crisis’
A new report shows that as the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency intensifies floods and droughts, access to clean water is expected to become even more unequal.
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Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate excoriate world leaders for ‘blah, blah, blah’ climate…
Uganda's Nakate said humanity "cannot adapt to extinction." Thunberg said lack of action is "a betrayal of all present and future generations."
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UN report says world on track for 2.7 degrees of warming by 2100
"Whatever our so-called 'leaders' are doing," said Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, "they are doing it wrong."
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The empire does not forgive
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan.
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Climate-driven weather disasters increased 5-fold over past 50 years: UN agency
Report finds extreme weather has killed more than 2 million people and cost $3.64 trillion in economic damages since 1970.
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Central banks accused of ‘dawdling’ on climate as world burns
"Instead of using their power to cut off finance for fossil fuels, they are making themselves busy tinkering around the edges of the climate crisis."
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U.S. suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide.
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Warning: Planet’s vital signs reaching dangerous ‘tipping points’ amid climate…
A coalition of scientists said that the planet is reaching multiple "tipping points," and that urgent action is needed to mitigate the climate emergency.
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Top economist warns 15% global minimum tax on corporations is ‘way too low’
"Taxing multinationals at 15% would still leave them facing a lower rate than the average American pays in state and federal income tax."
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The U.S. is back
Quelling expectations for a return to the Obama attitude on Cuba, the Biden administration took a step back in time and voted 'No' at the UN for ending the blockade.
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