G-7 Nations to Provide Vietnam With $15.5 Billion to Cut Coal Use

Read More Workers walk near an excavator loading coal onto a truck at a coal port in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 23, 2012. (Kham/Reuters) HANOI—The Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations will provide $15.5 billion to help Vietnam transition away from coal, the British foreign office said on Wednesday. The deal will be the third […]

US announces return of Iraqi artifacts taken from museum during 2003 invasion

On Wednesday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced that U.S. investigators would return seven Mesopotamian and Neo-Babylonian seals to Iraq. The seals are a small part of the 15,000 artifacts taken from the Iraq Museum in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of that country. In March 2021, one of the seals was listed for […]

Cry the beloved country: The ANC is bereft of ideas, plans and programmes

Read More The central feature of the apartheid policy and governance was to slice and dice our country into unsustainable fragments based on race, religion, class and gender. This was applied to geographical spatial planning; tribal tendencies were turned into “nations” that deserved their own separate “statehood” — the Bantustans.  This method of divide and […]

NY Court Orders Yeshiva University to Recognize LGBTQ Club

Yeshiva University (YU), an Orthodox Jewish school in New York City, has been ordered by a state appeals court to recognize a campus LGBTQ group. The university said being forced to recognize the group, the YU Pride Alliance, would violate its values and its U.S. …

Cari compagni, è ora di essere più radicali

Read More L’Italia, dopo questi anni di governo di destra-centro, avrà bisogno più che mai di un grande partito di sinistra riformista e di governo. E questo partito dovrà essere il Pd. Questa sfida, contenuta nel Manifesto del Pd e lanciata al Lingotto nel 2007, è infatti attuale. Allora scegliemmo un partito che declinasse le […]

FBI notified Twitter about users ‘potentially’ violating terms: Twitter Files

Post Content Employees at the Federal Bureau of Investigation regularly contacted workers at Twitter to notify them of accounts that “may” constitute violations of the company’s terms of service, new Twitter Files released Friday reveal. Substack writer and journalist Matt Taibbi tweeted several internal emails between Twitter workers and FBI employees as part of the […]