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Farmers of La Via Campesina: we globalise struggles and hope!

What is it like to farm in the EU? What are the forces at stake behind liberal farming policies? Where do the narratives of right and left farmers’ unions intersect and diverge? What is the current state of debates on fair prices, food sove

How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention

States have powerful legal tools to counter federal environmental rollbacks, from enacting stronger local regulations to forming interstate coalitions that protect natural resources and public health. Introduction In 1788, a year before the

Eco-Fascist Mark Carney is Trying to Control the World Through Green Finance

Former Bank of England chief Mark Carney was the most influential central banker in the world. He has held the most senior positions in global central banking in the shortest period of time and is probably more responsible than any other fi

Christine Lagarde: We are getting ready to make the digital euro a reality in October

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, has confirmed that the digital euro, the EU’s central bank digital currency (“CBDC”), will launch in October 2025

Malaysia approves a new search for MH370 wreckage in the Indian Ocean

Jiang Hui, whose mother was on the missing MH370 Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, wears a shirt "Remembering 239 Lives, MH370" as he talks to media on the 11th anniversary of the jet going missing on March 8, 2025, in Beijing, China.

Peru: Veto ‘Anti-NGO’ Law

(Washington, DC) – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte should veto a bill approved by Congress that would severely restrict the work of independent journalists and civil society organizations, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 12, 2025,

Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year

Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly responds to a question during a news conference on tariffs, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP

Trump is taking a hammer to traditional pillars of soft power : Consider This from NPR

A sign for the United States Institute of Peace at its headquarters in Washington. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to disband multiple federal advisory committees including the Institute of Peace.

Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire

Israeli soldiers patrol a street in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it has launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, a day after Israel broke a ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 p

Zelenskyy and Trump speak after Trump's call with Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the Finnish president at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on Wednesday. Zelenskyy was on an official visit to Finland.

Users are leaving X

A spectre is haunting the social media platform known as X—a spectre of exodus. But the migration from the platform once known as Twitter to alternatives like Bluesky has also sparked warnings about another spectre—the echo chamber.

Musk, DOGE violated Constitution, judge says. And, when egg prices might drop

Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories Elon Musk and the Department of Gove

The Ball Comes to Rest

Surfing YouTube, I came across an interview of Ezra Klein by Stephen Colbert. He was promoting a new book called Abundance, basically arguing that scarcity is politically-manufactured by “both sides,” and that if we get our political act to