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The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions. They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases.

The new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana shows that Gaza has become a key fault line in British politics. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party can no longer rely on silencing the Left.

Of course this gerrymandering plan is about keeping power. But it’s about keeping power to a specific end: to pass laws people hate and block ones they want.

"When governments can unilaterally shut down access to war zones," the petitioners warn, "they undermine the very foundation of democracy: press freedom as a check on power."

A study by the Center of Economic and Policy Research has revealed that, between 1971 and 2021, US and EU sanctions killed 38 million people around the world.

Why 51 Texas lawmakers fled the State to stop a power grab, and what it means for us all…

In a letter to ministers ahead of the vote, Gali Baharav-Miara said the move effectively removes the chief prosecutor in the prime minister's trial. She won't be dismissed until the High Court rules on petitions against it.

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished. “It is not about human nature. It is about .. competing for profit and power and covering [the risks] up."

A Bomb Unlike Any Other (1945), When the K.K.K. Came to D.C. (1925), An Authoritarian Racist in the White House (1835), Getting Rid of a Brutal Occupation for 12 Years (1680), Rebellion in Watts, 60 Years Later (1965)