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The Hindu 

Pig War: The war that wasn’t

In this installment of Global Echoes, we dive into a truly bizarre moment in history—when a simple pig’s death nearly led to a war between two powerful nations, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Ecologist 

'Nature wins' for 2024

'Nature wins' for 2024

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CounterPunch 

“Está Cabrón”: An End-of-Year Reflection on a World at the Crossroads

When I first meet the fisherman Gerardo Delgado, he is sitting in his boat, surrounded by pelicans, off the shore of Lake Toronto, in central south Chihuahua, Mexico. Perhaps the pelicans are waiting for Delgado to toss a fillet, but his catch is, yet again, meager. In the last couple of years, it’s been hard to make a living from fishing on the lake. I am with another fisherman, Alonso Montañes, and we approach Delgado on a motorboat. More

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Medievalists.net 

Stealing Horses, Losing Feet: Crusader Animal Laws

There were many strange quirks associated with the justice systems of the Crusader States. They were, after all, on the frontiers of Christendom and many aspects of their law books were arcane in the extreme.

CounterPunch 

Hell and High Water: the Year in Climate Chaos

2024 will be the warmest year on record, the year warming topped 1.5 degrees Celsius. It’s the year the US set new oil and gas production records, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. It’s a year that saw the US re-elect a climate denier who vows to double US oil production over these record levels, assuming that’s even possible.  It’s a year that saw two of the most destructive hurricanes in US history roar back-to-back across the Gulf Coast. It's the year the temperatures in the Atlantic basin shattered records... Читать дальше...

CounterPunch 

Silky Shah & Eman Abdelhadi: The Battles Ahead

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Silky Shah and Eman Abdelhadi join Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg to discuss how we should gear up to take on the Trump administration, and the best way to empower our movements going forward, from immigration to Palestine. https://content.blubrry.com/counterpunch_radio/SilkyandEman.mp3  

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Inter Press Service 

The Land of Immigrants to Deport Thousands of Refugees & Asylum Seekers

The United States, long described as a country built largely by immigrants, is planning to clamp down on migrants, refugees and asylum seekers entering the country—which averaged about 2.4 million in 2022-2023, according to the US Congressional Budget Office. The incoming Trump administration is calling for “mass deportations” of mostly illegal aliens and undocumented workers. […]