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This week: News and analyses from Asian parties and movements

“Forgive us if we don’t give a shit if everybody there dies. It’s just the way we feel. It’s just the way Israelis feel," said Two Nice Jewish Boys co-host Eytan Weinstein.

Canada raised its capital gains tax inclusion rate, sparking outrage from the investing class, who warned of economic disaster. The data shows that their histrionics were groundless.

Dialogue with green groups results in agreement on ‘urgent, ambitious and feasible’ reforms in agriculture

Eos’ Pittsburgh-area battery plant got subsidies aimed at “good clean jobs.” Its workers say they’re getting fired for unionizing.

Musk on the run

Steward’s evasion of creditors in its spectacular bankruptcy even includes the wrongful death settlement for a young mom.

“Our politicians won’t listen to anything, because they’re driven out of self-interest,” says Israeli peace activist Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother Vivian Silver was killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be’eri.

Deaths from extreme heat, landslides, and other severe weather seem to be rising. Can they be added to fossil fuels’ death toll?

A long-overdue cut-off of U.S. arms to Israel and recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination would provide exactly the shock to the system that is needed.