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China slaps extra tariffs of up to 15% on imports of major U.S. farm exports

A woman walks by the Chinese and U.S. national flags on display outside a souvenir shop in Beijing on Jan. 31, 2025. Andy Wong/AP hide caption

Seeing My Settler Ignorance in the Mirror of This Moment

This essay is excerpted with permission from Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing, and Repair, by Hilary Giovale. (Green Writers Press, 2024) A decade ago, I sat on the floor of my living room in Flagstaff, Arizona with a new friend named Marie Gladue.

Taiwan condemns China for conducting shooting drills off its coast

In this image taken off a video released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, a member of Taiwan Navy reacts on the intercom to Chinese war ships conducting drills about 40 nautical miles off the coast of western Taiwan's Kaohsiung and Pingtung cities on Feb.

Ukraine's Zelenskyy will meet Trump Friday to finish a minerals deal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to journalists during press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption KYIV, Ukraine, and WASHINGTON, D.C.

Larder

One of the key practices on this Earth takes place every day before the store cupboard, and this extract, about the cherry plum tree, records the moment, one late summer’s day in Oxfordshire, when I shifted my allegiance from the city larder to the wild. I did not look back.

Dougald Hine: “Reimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change”

(Conversation recorded on November 12th, 2024) Show Summary In today’s modern era, the overwhelming flood of information that constantly flows our way can leave us feeling disoriented, lost, and powerless. Even science – our most trusted source of truth – can be taken out of context to fuel division and distort

USAID and EU: Manipulating “independent” media and controlling public opinion

The EU gave, between 2014 and 2018, around 122 million euros to Euronews, an organisation pretending to be an independent news outlet while in reality, it is a pro-globalist/EU media outlet.

Juice: Review

The recent burgeoning of dystopic future and climate fiction (or ‘cli-fi’) in film, TV and literature reflects the current direction of travel for the world and the rising anxieties accompanying this. Many different timeframes, settings, nations and contexts have been explored as part of this cultural phenomenon and one particular

US: Lithium Mine Permit Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

(Washington D.C., February 6, 2025) – The United States government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU said in a report released today. The 18,000-acre mining project is under construction and will

Putting Nature at the Center

Life may be unique to Earth.

While plastic dominates human consumption, the global economy will remain hooked on fossil fuels

In early December 2024, hopes for a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution were dashed as negotiations in South Korea stalled. Leading the campaign against the deal were major oil-producing nations, especially Saudi Arabia and Russia, who argued for a more flexible approach to any legally binding limits on

Future Natures: On Seeing Commons through Popular Genres

In academic research about the commons, few scholars are as venturesome in their creative approaches than the scholars and researchers associated with the Centre for Future Natures, at the University of Sussex in England. Led by anthropologist and research fellow Amber Huff, Future Natures explores “ecologies of crisis, commons, and

Wikipedia Ruined My Life

Dr. Vernon Coleman describes how Wikipedia has ruined his life by publishing false information about him, which has led to him being discredited and losing book sales.

If you want holistic medicine you must do it yourself

The medical establishment has been influenced by the drug industry and focuses on solving problems with drugs, surgery, or radiotherapy, rather than acknowledging the importance of stress, diet and preventive medicine. True holistic medicine combines orthodox and alternative medicine to treat the patient as a whole but this approach is