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Trump’s sanctions threats against Russia usual routine – Kremlin

The Kremlin views US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose sanctions against Russia if a deal on the Ukrainian conflict settlement is not reached as the usual routine, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. “We do not see…

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Agreement, Again

‘There’s No Mandate to Slam Climate Progress Into Reverse,’ Says NRDC By Paige Bennett As one of his first orders of business upon taking office, President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. During his…

Another World Is Already Here

To see the future we want to create, we just have to look outside of our own borders. I hope everyone in the world reads the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by…

Ecuador’s Coastal Ecosystems Have Rights, Constitutional Court Rules

The Constitutional Court of Ecuador has determined that coastal marine ecosystems have rights of nature, including the right to “integral respect for its existence and for the maintenance and regeneration of its life cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes,” per Chapter…

Nobel and World Food Prize Winners Call for ‘Moonshot’ Effort to Curb Global Hunger

An open letter calling for efforts to increase food production to avert a world hunger catastrophe has been signed by more than 150 winners of the Nobel and World Food Prizes. The signatories made a plea for political and financial backing to come up…

America is Ignorant but it’s Not Stupid

Peering Outside the Disney Media Bubble Over the course of the last three years I’ve been doing a kind of study. Since January of 2022, I’ve been looking not only at Western news from the left, right and center, I’ve…

Addressing Climate Change Strengthens Rather Than Stifles Economic Growth

The sweeping wildfires in Los Angeles are just another horrific manifestation of the rapidly increasing and deadly effects of climate change. Those who deny that there is such a thing as climate change are misguided and can cause further incalculable…

Cuba Removed From State Sponsors of Terrorism List

Yesterday, the Biden administration removed Cuba from the U.S. the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, marking a major victory for not only the Cuban people, but also for all people of the world who stand for sovereignty, dignity,…

The Real Possibility of Peace on Earth in the 21st Century (Part 1)

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding? Perhaps it seems a bit strange or a bit silly to be contemplating the idea of a real possibility for world peace amidst the current chaos of ongoing wars, proxy wars and…

National Guard deployed to Los Angeles fire zones as anger builds over government failure to prevent disaster

The six fires raging across Los Angeles have now claimed more than 12,000 homes and other structures, and at least 11 lives. An estimated 180,000 people remain under evacuation orders and another 166,800 face evacuation warnings as firefighters continue to…

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