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The most effective way for the paper to help end the publisher’s persecution is to publicly acknowledge the many bogus stories they published about him and correct the record.
In the pause between the U.N. climate summit that just ended in Egypt and the start of the U.N. conference on biodiversity in Canada, Vijay Prashad reflects on the scale and speed of deforestation and animal extinctions.
Beyond a new slogan, Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram see little evidence of any meaningful commitment to sustainable agriculture in AGRA’s $550 million plan for 2023–27.
This is the first time that Beijing has presided over a major intergovernmental meeting on the environment and wildlife ecologist Vanessa Hull is eager to see the country step into a global leadership role.
The Palestinian Authority’s foreign affairs ministry said Itamar Ben-Gvir’s new position, which includes responsibility for Border Police in the occupied West Bank, could have a “catastrophic impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
New information raises further concerns about the politicization of the WikiLeaks founder’s legal case, Matt Kennard reports.
Plaintiffs are demanding legal action against the former U.S. president and others, including Mike Pompeo, for the 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military officer, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the commander of an Iraqi militia.
After a wave of leftist electoral victories in the region, WikiLeaks is working to build political support to urge the U.S. government to drop its charges against the imprisoned publisher, Anish R M reports.
“Publishing Is Not a Crime” — The five media outlets that collaborated with WikiLeaks in 2010 sent a letter on Monday calling on the Biden administration to drop all charges against the imprisoned publisher.
