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Israelis and Cubans celebrate chess through Chess4Solidarity tournament
Some 200 chess players from the two countries faced each other in competitive matches through the Israeli chess club's Chess4Solidarity campaign.
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U.S. and its allies fueling worldwide erosion of democracy, analysis shows
"We cannot rely on the U.S. or its allies to 'champion' democracy around the world," said global grassroots movement Progressive International.
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Campaigners rip COP26 draft as a ‘polite request’ for climate action amid existential…
"This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it's an agreement that we’ll all cross our fingers and hope for the best."
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Don’t choose extinction
The world spends an astounding $423 billion annually to subsidize fossil fuels for consumers deepening inequality and impeding action on climate change.
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Europe’s largest pension fund announces fossil fuel divestment
The shift comes because, according to ABP board chair Corien Wortmann, the "board sees the need and urgency for a change of course."
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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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