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“Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP,” he said. “To falter whilst megadroughts wreck national harvests, sending food prices soaring, makes zero sense economically and politically."
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‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
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November 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"Will Trump knock the dollar off its perch? Its supremacy has been eroding. These days it accounts for 58% of global foreign exchange reserves, down from 74% at the turn of the century."
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Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’
Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stability
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November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said... that the planet was still heading towards 2.5C of warming, which would kill 250,000 people each year and shrink GDP by 30%."
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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
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November 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine... Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”
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A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.
Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"The intelligence, described by the former officials as the most startling shared with U.S. policymakers, pointed to doubts within the Israeli military about the legality of its tactics that contrasted sharply with Israel’s public stance defending its actions."
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November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Finally found the link to this EXCELLENT talk by @naomioreskes.bsky.social moderated by the great @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social . Prof Oreskes covers her book The Big Myth co-authored with Eric Conway. Essential reading-viewing.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions. "
Disgraceful.
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Just went to the London launch of Peter Oborne's new book, Complicit: Britain's Role In The Destruction Of Gaza, and bought a copy. It's excellent.

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Is UK government complicit in the destruction of Gaza?
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November 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began."
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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
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October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world."
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Even previous supporters of Israel are now joining the cultural and economic boycott. Public opinion has shifted after 2 years of genocide and continuing ethnic cleansing. Keep boycotting Israel.
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says he would ‘absolutely not’ play in Israel now
Singer says he will not perform in Israel while Benjamin Netanyahu remains in power, eight years after Radiohead defied criticism to perform in Tel Aviv
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October 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
"Nine-year-old Muhammad al-Hallaq was killed by Israeli forces on October 16, leaving his family shattered by the loss."
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‘They killed his childhood’: West Bank family mourn child killed by Israel
Nine-year-old Muhammad al-Hallaq was killed by Israeli forces on October 16, leaving his family shattered by the loss.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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“I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country…We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, like, dead” - the antiwar president! Give him a Nobel!
The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela
More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"Amazon Web Services furnished the Israeli government as part of its Project Nimbus deal. Last year, The Intercept revealed a provision requiring Amazon and Google to sell cloud services to Rafael Systems and Israeli Aerospace, two leading Israeli weapons firms."
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As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
theintercept.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"The unusual prosecution is being brought by the International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP). The human rights group intends to argue in court that named Britons joined a foreign army at war with a state, Palestine, which the UK was not fighting."
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Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel
Highly unusual court application alleges more than 10 individuals breached foreign enlistment laws
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October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"Investigations by the foundation have identified that, within the 401st Brigade, the company known as “Vampire Empire”, under the command of Major Sean Glass, was directly responsible for killing the Rajab family and subsequently tampering with the crime scene."
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Al Jazeera documentary reveals new evidence in Hind Rajab family’s killing
Al Jazeera documentary uncovers new evidence in killings of Hind Rajab, her family and rescue team in Gaza City.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"The opinion by the International Court of Justice in The Hague found that Israel had a duty not to impede the supply of aid by UN organisations including the UN Palestinian relief agency Unrwa, which has been in effect banned from the territory since January."
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ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says restrictions breached international obligations
UN’s top court also finds Israel failed to justify blocking Unrwa and other relief agencies
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October 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"The appeal follows a sharp shift in public opinion for US Jews and the wider electorate over the last few years. A Washington Post poll found that 61% of US Jews believe Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, and 39% say it is committing genocide."
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
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October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"the physician said one of the pictures “shows the man had his hands tied likely with zip ties. There is a change in colour between the arms and the hands at the level of the zip ties, likely indicating ischemic changes due to excessive restraints.”
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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
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October 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22d
I knew Jess was a real one when we started co-writing articles and she insisted that my name come first in the by-lines because "people are going to just assume I wrote it." She understands the authority her whiteness grants her.

More of you should take that lesson to heart. Be better people.
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself.

You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Neither of us​ have been in financial difficulties, never been in debt​... Never had any criminal ​record, fraud or anything​ of that sort of whatsoever... This is just inexplicable and obviously it’s not inexplicable because it’s to do with Palestine."
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Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society
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October 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I wonder if this will make any supporters of the Royal Family reconsider their views?
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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM