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18/09/2022

A Devastating Burning Season for the Brazilian Amazon

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By Luciana Téllez Chávez, Researcher, Environment and Human Rights | Human Rights Watch*

Illegal Deforestation Linked to Violence, Loss of Livelihoods for Communities.

Fire consumes land deforested by cattle farmers ranchers near Novo Progresso, Para Pará State, Brazil, August 2020. © 2022 AP/Andre Penner
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There were more fires in the Brazilian Amazon during the first week of September this year than in all of September 2021. Last month, fires were the worst in a decade. It is amounting to a devastating burning season for the world’s largest rainforest.

Posted in Climate Crisis, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Migrants and Refugees, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples | Leave a Comment »

18/09/2022

Truss’s Plan to Hike Defence Funding and Ignore the Climate Is a Disaster

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By Paul Rogers*

OPINION: The UK’s new prime minister is a market fundamentalist. The resulting crises could define her premiership.

*Liz Truss replaced Boris Johnson as prime minister earlier this month |* PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

16 September 2022 (openDemocracy)* — Liz Truss, the UK’s new prime minister, places a high premium on loyalty. This is why many former members of the cabinet, however experienced, have been relegated to the backbenches. There is, though, one survivor from the Cameron-Clegg coalition era – Truss herself.

Posted in Africa, Asia, Climate Crisis, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Migrants and Refugees, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords | Leave a Comment »

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A Devastating Burning Season for the Brazilian Amazon

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By Luciana Téllez Chávez, Researcher, Environment and Human Rights | Human Rights Watch*

Truss’s Plan to Hike Defence Funding and Ignore the Climate Is a Disaster

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By Paul Rogers*

OPINION: The UK’s new prime minister is a market fundamentalist. The resulting crises could define her premiership.

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Truss’s Plan to Hike Defence Funding and Ignore the Climate Is a Disaster

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OPINION: The UK’s new prime minister is a market fundamentalist. The resulting crises could define her premiership.

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