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Urgent: No Fossil Fuel Money pledge

jeudi 14 février 2019 à 01:00

US citizens: call on House Climate Committee members to take the no-fossil-fuel-money pledge.

If you sign, please spread the word!

The former British Empire

mardi 12 février 2019 à 01:00

Accusing the former British Empire of being responsible for present-day "racism, police brutality, privatisation, militarism, ongoing economic dispossession and the retention of the spoils of empire."

I am not sure it is fair to blame the British Empire for militarism (which is millennia old) and police brutality (thugs torture people all around the world). I suspect that privatization would have been imposed anyway, though the empire may have helped to pave the way.

The empire played a big role in the other three.

US greenhouse gas emissions

mardi 12 février 2019 à 01:00

US greenhouse gas emissions jumped 3% in 2018.

Journalist sentenced to prison

mardi 12 février 2019 à 01:00

Turkish journalist Pelin Ünker has been sentenced to prison for "defamation" because she published facts about how one of Erdoğan's henchmen used companies in Malta as tax havens.

They don't even bother to deny the facts that she published.

The former British Empire

mardi 12 février 2019 à 01:00

Accusing the former British Empire of being responsible for present-day "racism, police brutality, privatisation, militarism, ongoing economic dispossession and the retention of the spoils of empire."

I am not sure it is fair to blame the British Empire for militarism (which is millenia old) and police brutality (thugs torture people all around the world). I suspect that privatization would have been imposed anyway, though the empire may have helped to pave the way.

The empire played a big role in the other three.