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Zimbabwe in Limbo As Military Seizes Control & Places President Mugabe Under House Arrest; African Activist Slams Trump for Reversing Ban on Elephant Trophies from Hunts in Zimbabwe & Zambia; Nigerian Environmental Activist: Displacement from Climate Change Contributed to Rise of Boko Haram; Activists at COP23 Decry Companies & Corporate Sponsors Pushing Fossil Fuel as … Continued
Pacific Climate Warriors Roll Out Anti-Coal “Red Carpet” for Angela Merkel at U.N. Climate Talks;’ Special Report from the Occupied Forest: Meet Activists Fighting Europe’s Largest Open-Pit Coal Mine; Trump Climate Adviser Tells Democracy Now! Coal Needs a “Level Playing Field” at U.N. Climate Talks; Scientists Issue Dire Warning on Climate Change & Key Researcher … Continued
Kumi Naidoo: United Nations Shouldn’t “Pander to Madness That Comes Out of the Trump Administration”; Special Report: Revolt at Trump’s Pro-Coal, Pro-Nuclear & Pro-Gas Panel Rocks U.N. Climate Summit; 1st Female President of the Marshall Islands & Her Poet Daughter: We Need Climate & Nuclear Justice; “Climate Apartheid”: South African Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo Slams … Continued
CA Gov. Jerry Brown Tells Indigenous Activists Protesting Fracking He’ll Put Them “In the Ground”; COP23: Activists from Puerto Rico to Island Nations Demand Climate Reparations, End to Fossil Fuels; Thousands Protest in Manila as Trump Hails “Great Relationship” with Philippines President Duterte; Amid Sea Level Rise & Devastating Storm, Island Nations Call for “Real … Continued
On Asia Trip, Trump Met by Protests Calling on U.S. to Open Diplomatic Relations with North Korea; Will Trump Challenge Philippines President Duterte’s Deadly Drug War When They Meet in Manila? Bill McKibben on Future of the Paris Climate Accord & U.S. Role at COP23 Climate Talks in Germany.
In China, Trump Talks Trade & North Korea, Ignoring Climate Change & Crackdown on Human Rights; Yemeni Journalist: Saudi Arabia’s Total Blockade on Yemen is “Death Sentence” for All; Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman Consolidates Power & Purges Rivals Under “Anti-Corruption” Pretense.
Voters Reject Republican Candidates as New “Autopsy” Report Finds the Democratic Party in Crisis; Billionaire GOP Backer Robert Mercer Used Offshore Profits to Fund Breitbart & Attacks on Clinton; Trump’s Commerce Secretary Owns Stake in Russian Companies While He Oversees Potential Sanctions; Paradise Papers Expose “Cleverest Ways of Exploiting” Offshore Tax Havens by GOP & … Continued
How Domestic Violence and Militarism “Open the Floodgates” to Mass Shootings Like the Texas Massacre; As NYPD Officers Are Charged with Rape of Teenager, Advocates Call for End to Mass Sexual Violence; Acclaimed Chilean Writer Isabel Allende on Death of Pablo Neruda, the 1973 Chilean Coup & Trump; Chilean Writer Isabel Allende’s New Novel, “In … Continued
Suspect in Texas Church Massacre was Thrown Out of Air Force & Jailed for Assaulting Wife & Child; Texans Decry “Extremist” Gun Lobby & Inadequate Background Checks After Mass Shooting Kills 26; After Texas Massacre, Drexel Prof. Asks: “What Makes White Men So Prone to This Kind of Behavior?” Why Did Media Overlook Sept. Shooting … Continued
In Puerto Rico’s Highlands, Hurricane Maria Has Exploded Fault Lines of Poverty & Austerity; Yanis Varoufakis on Global Capitalism & How Trump’s Tax Plan is Class War Against the Poor; Economist Yanis Varoufakis: Puerto Ricans Deserve an Escape from “Permanent Debt Prison”; Greek Economist Yanis Varoufakis on Nazi Resurgence in Europe & Why ”ISIS Loves … Continued
