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Dee Gaug
How USDA is Failing America’s Captive Elephants
29 Jul 2021
Performing elephants are denied all that is natural to them and are forced to endure beatings, electric shock, food and water deprivation and intimidation.
Manolo De Los Santos, Vijay Prashad
Let Cuba Live—The Movement Standing Up to Biden’s Maximum Pressure Campaign
28 Jul 2021
Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad on the failed attempt by the Biden administration to push for regime change in Cuba as the US-blockade worsens socioeconomic conditions on the island
Taroa Zuñiga Silva
Sex Workers and COVID-19: Resisting the Pandemic and Criminalisation
27 Jul 2021
In Latin America, many countries do not have legislation criminalising sex work. The lack of a legal framework in this regard lends itself to all kinds of abuses.
Katie Stennes
Undercover Investigations Expose Brutal Wildlife Killing Contests
20 Jul 2021
Welcome to the cruel world of wildlife killing contests, family events where children play amidst piles of slaughtered animals—and legal in 42 states in the US.
Celina Della Croce
How a Congressman Took on US Blockade Against Venezuela
26 Jun 2021
In a letter to President Biden, Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern flayed the use of sanctions to punish whole populations for actions of their leaders to “bludgeon an adversary into submission.”
Vijay Prashad
Civil War in Afghanistan Will Threaten Afghanistan, China, Pakistan
24 Jun 2021
Whether these three governments will actually be able to weaken terrorist groups like ETIM and TTP, incubated by the Taliban, is unclear.
Amy Souers Kober
Biden Has a Chance to Oversee Biggest River Restoration Project in US History
22 Jun 2021
Removing four dams would promote salmon recovery, clean energy, agriculture and Indigenous rights.
Reynard Loki
Solve Twin Crises of Climate Change and Species Loss Together, Say UN Scientists
17 Jun 2021
The natural world is undergoing two enormous crises that are currently threatening it: climate change and biodiversity loss. These crises are intertwined.
Reynard Loki
Forests Are Crucial to Combating Climate Change—Will Biden Rise to Challenge?
09 Jun 2021
Unsustainable logging by the forest products industry is driving massive carbon emissions.
Reynard Loki
Humanity’s #1 Environmental Problem is Consumption—Climate Change is Just a Byproduct
05 Jun 2021
By focusing the climate fight on what we emit, not what we consume, we are destined to fail—net-zero emissions policies aren’t enough to prevent catastrophe.