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The Climate Wars: How Superpowers Are Carving Up the Earth | With Arthur Snell bit.ly/41ODNKL | read more ⤵️

The Climate Wars: How Superpowers Are Carving Up the Earth | With Arthur Snell

What do melting Arctic ice, a war for farmland in Ukraine, and the panic of Gulf petro-states have in common? Arthur Snell exposes the terrifying new geography of global conflict and how humanity can...

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Sex, power and backlash in Africa bit.ly/4eziJze | read more ⤵️

The backlash is reshaping sex across Africa

An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom

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What movements can learn from their own histories bit.ly/42lz6YU | read more ⤵️

Nana Darkoa on movements, memory and resistance

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash

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Big Tech platforms under fire in inquiry into Southport mass stabbing bit.ly/4tThXS6 | read more ⤵️

Amazon and X criticised in report on Southport murders

Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and stabbing of others

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Brazil: How the CIA funded Catholic marches that paved the way for the 1964 coup bit.ly/4dUDZPS | read more ⤵️

How CIA funded housewives marches in Brazil

Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup

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The US is facing its Suez moment – the outcome could change the world order bit.ly/4ecNSbV | read more ⤵️

How the US’s ‘Suez moment’ in Iran could change world order

If Donald Trump fails to end the Iran war soon, its effects could last for decades, with unpredictable consequences

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Leaving to survive, staying to resist: Persecution and exile in El Salvador bit.ly/4es0lIv | read more ⤵️

El Salvador: Leaving to survive, staying to resist

We speak to journalists and defenders of human and environmental rights about how their lives have come under threat

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Revealed: Morocco forcibly displaced Black migrants ahead of AFCON tournament bit.ly/41FOJdt | read more ⤵️

How Morocco forcibly displaced Black migrants ahead of AFCON

Keen to present itself as a key EU partner on migration, Morocco pushed migrants out of sight before tourists arrived.

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Defeating authoritarians: Notes from the Hungarian playbook bit.ly/4vAbPzM | read more ⤵️

Defeating authoritarians: Notes from the Hungarian playbook

What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime?

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Orbán’s election defeat is a blow to the global anti-gender movement bit.ly/48pxe59 | read more ⤵️

Europe’s great replacement leader lost. We should celebrate.

Europe’s great replacement prime minister lost on Sunday, and so did the global anti-gender movement

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Netanyahu is behind Iran war, not Trump – and that makes peace unlikely bit.ly/4cg1f8x | read more ⤵️

Is peace in Iran likely? Not while Netanyahu is in charge

Israel’s strikes on Lebanon are a reminder that Netanyahu will do whatever he can to avoid a peace deal with Iran

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Sex, power and backlash in Africa bit.ly/4eziJze | read more ⤵️

The backlash is reshaping sex across Africa

An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom

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What movements can learn from their own histories bit.ly/42lz6YU | read more ⤵️

Nana Darkoa on movements, memory and resistance

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash

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Big Tech platforms under fire in inquiry into Southport mass stabbing bit.ly/4tThXS6 | read more ⤵️

Amazon and X criticised in report on Southport murders

Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and stabbing of others

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Brazil: How the CIA funded Catholic marches that paved the way for the 1964 coup bit.ly/4dUDZPS | read more ⤵️

How CIA funded housewives marches in Brazil

Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup

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The US is facing its Suez moment – the outcome could change the world order bit.ly/4ecNSbV | read more ⤵️

How the US’s ‘Suez moment’ in Iran could change world order

If Donald Trump fails to end the Iran war soon, its effects could last for decades, with unpredictable consequences

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Leaving to survive, staying to resist: Persecution and exile in El Salvador bit.ly/4es0lIv | read more ⤵️

El Salvador: Leaving to survive, staying to resist

We speak to journalists and defenders of human and environmental rights about how their lives have come under threat

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Revealed: Morocco forcibly displaced Black migrants ahead of AFCON tournament bit.ly/41FOJdt | read more ⤵️

How Morocco forcibly displaced Black migrants ahead of AFCON

Keen to present itself as a key EU partner on migration, Morocco pushed migrants out of sight before tourists arrived.

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Defeating authoritarians: Notes from the Hungarian playbook bit.ly/4vAbPzM | read more ⤵️

Defeating authoritarians: Notes from the Hungarian playbook

What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime?

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Orbán’s election defeat is a blow to the global anti-gender movement bit.ly/48pxe59 | read more ⤵️

Europe’s great replacement leader lost. We should celebrate.

Europe’s great replacement prime minister lost on Sunday, and so did the global anti-gender movement

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