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A school shooting with multiple fatalities is certain to make the headlines. After all, it’s major news when a kid gets shot and killed, right? Well, not necessarily — because …
Youth Suicides by Firearms on the Rise Read More
Climate justice advocates at the UN climate summit this week are focusing their frustration over global climate inaction into one highly technical debate: What role should carbon markets play in …
Climate Justice Groups Protest Use of Carbon Markets for Meeting Paris Goals Read More
Governments should prioritise environmental and social factors in their budgets instead of GDP, Iceland’s prime minister has urged, in a call for “an alternative future based on wellbeing and inclusive growth”. Katrin Jakobsdottir emphasised …
Governments should put wellbeing of citizens ahead of GDP in budget priorities, Iceland PM urges Read More
A critical examination of economics’s past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time The dominant view in economics is …
Money and Government – Robert Skidelsky Read More
Hunger striker Eric Tien says they will not eat until Nancy Pelosi agrees to a one hour public meeting to publicly acknowledge that we are in a climate emergency https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=cLtWUFYRkac&feature=emb_logo
Extinction Rebellion Hunger Strike in its 10th Day Read More
The cabbies’ union welcomed the decision while the Uber drivers union called it a “hammer blow”. Two trade unions have reacted very differently to Transport for London’s decision not to …
Unions divided as London takes away Uber license Read More
VARNEY, West Virginia — Pigeon Creek flows through a narrow mountain hollow along a string of coal mining communities, its water trickling under the reds and yellows of the changing …
Appalachia’s Strip-Mined Mountains Face a Growing Climate Risk: Flooding Read More
The UK government’s debt payment burden is low and its ability to borrow at record low interest rates is an opportunity. But that ability to borrow needs to be used …
The Truth About The UK’s Debt Read More
Four years ago, “fear of mass shootings” did not even appear on the American Psychological Association’s annual survey of things that stress out Americans. Now, however, it has become the …
Fear of Mass Shootings Strains America’s Psyche, Survey Finds Read More
Once well-functioning society now struggles with day-to-day living HONG KONG — Hong Kong this week witnessed the fiercest violence since the anti-government demonstrations began, as university campuses became flash …
Hong Kong’s worst week of violence gives whiff of anarchy Read More