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Claims of success in animal welfare, climate policy, and corporate sustainability often rely on narrow metrics that obscure whether real-world harms are…
A United States court held an extraordinary hearing on November 16, where a judge carefully considered a lawsuit against the CIA and…
There have been decades of photos of dead Palestinian women and children, and kids being beaten, humilated and imprisoned by Israeli soldiers.…
Weāve heard from our friends at the oil companiesĀ who made $196 billion in profits last year that the evidence for it is…
This is from one of the people Iām least likely to bother quoting: āWe need a national divorce. . . From the sick…
Is China really on the verge of invading the island of Taiwan, as so many top American officials seem to believe? If…
Ā A Letter From Michael Albert Dear Z Community, I have worked on Z Magazine and ZNet, and before that on South…
Donāt be fooled by the progressive rhetoric of the Biden administrationās new National Security Strategy (NSS), released earlier this week. With the document, the…
On September 8, Buckingham PalaceĀ announcedĀ the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britainās longest reigning monarch. While someĀ mournedĀ her passing on social media a growing…
In the weeks since forty thousand National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) members voted for strike action ā the…
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