The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, set to be launched at COP30, is designed to guarantee profits for corporations and governments in the Global North by deepening debt and financial dependency in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.
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Binoy Kampmark looks behind United States President Donald Trump’s controversial announcement on resuming nuclear testing, including the internal push for the US to modernise its nuclear arsenal.
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Carbon capture and storage has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system, but as John Quiggin argues, the statistics say otherwise.
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Forest firefighters marched from Trades Hall to the Victorian Parliament to demand fair pay ahead of a critical bushfire season, with a depleted emergency response fleet. Ron Guy reports.
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador — the country’s most powerful social movement — ended its month-long national strike against the neoliberal Daniel Noboa government, reports Ben Radford.
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In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semarang and Akrom from the Indonesian youth struggle front in Salatiga — to get their take on this new youth-led movement.
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Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans during a military operation in the Intan Jaya Regency. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the European Union have just finalised an economic agreement that gives a green light to the exploitation of West Papua’s natural resources, reports Susan Price.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Despite all the evidence that we have entered an era of catastrophic climate change, federal Labor is pushing to bring pro-business amendments to Australia’s main environment law. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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In an attempt to seize a share of a market dominated by China, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has placed Australia’s rare earths and critical minerals at the disposal of United States strategic and war interests. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Adam Bremner, from the No Sunbury Waste Incinerator campaign, was interviewed on Green Left Radio.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents four new books examining the poisoning of the biosphere.