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

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.

“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.

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.

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

“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.

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

This week: News and analyses from Asian parties and movements

Death for Export (1934), The Die Is Cast (1774), The Shot Not Heard Around the World (1774), Yankee Doodle Shafts Native Americans (1783), Jim Crow Must Go, but ‘Voluntarily’ (1954), Boston Police Strike Out (1919), Give Us Liberty or Death! (1739)

Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, striking to gain recognition for their union.