Paul Horsman

Two Weak Reasons a Weak Trump Attacked a Weakened Iran Trump bombed Iran to avoid a congressional vote. Now the world is on fire.

Two Weak Reasons a Weak Trump Attacked a Weakened Iran

The attack on Iran will not liberate its brutally-oppressed people, but make matters worse. It could be a trigger for major conflagration.

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...

How dismaying – how unforgivable! – that an elected 21st-century American president still believes it’s effective and permissible, let alone moral, to dictate to the world from the barrel of a gun. By what conceivable right does the US behave in this way?
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

TotalEnergies in French court accused of failing to limit climate damage A case against French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies opened in Paris on Thursday over allegations it has failed to meet legal obligations to limit environmental harm.

TotalEnergies was in court in Paris yesterday over climate damage, in a historic case using France’s duty of vigilance law to challenge its fossil expansion.

Courts and governments must force a fossil phase-out and protect people, not profit.

#MakePollutersPay

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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

We Can Make an Impact. SAVE THE CHRISTMAS LANE OAKS! #SAVETHECHRISTMASLANEOAKS

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What do you call warehouses full of humans? Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 02/12/2026 · 27m

She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country.

In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.

But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.

The world is watching!

When a nation cages children, strips rights, silences dissent & weaponizes poverty, the world doesn’t call it leadership!

It calls it Crimes Against Humanity!

Survivors demand Justice! Children deserve to be Safe!

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy

Despite a Level 10 warning, no one took action.

Not residents.

Nor the government.

This led to a disaster where thousands were trapped in one of the worst storms South Africa had ever experienced.

Adapting to the #ClimateCrisis is difficult when people don’t seem to understand its severity.

Absolutely amazing!

Congress: he can’t go to war without us!!!

I mean… technically, you’re right.

Maybe do something about it other than a strongly worded letter.

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year

NO COFFEE ON A DEAD PLANET.

Due to the #climatecrisis, the top five coffee-growing countries, responsible for 75% of the world’s supply, experienced on average 57 additional days of coffee-harming heat annually. 😞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It all started with this single drawing from a child imprisoned that leaked out ⬇️

‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning | Oliver Eagleton In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right, says Oliver Eagleton, managing editor of Phenome...

"Socialists have a programme that would upend the present social order; neo-nationalists are ... entrenching its hierarchies. One group wants to destroy the neoliberal consensus, the other to deepen its asymmetries of class, race & gender." therein the problem
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The #DefendersOfDemocracy marks one year of standing for truth, justice & freedom!

To our friends who’ve been here since day 1 & to those who joined along the way, thank you!

We highly recommend you follow all of these great resister friends.

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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

A wonderful, meaningful read:
"life is politics or is conditioned by politics. So let us beware of those who attack politics, political parties, trade unions and democracy."
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There’s always plenty of fish in the sea, but not in the Rakaia River. Rakaia’s salmon fishing competition is dead in the water and it’s all because of dirty dairy. The intensive dairy industry has sucked Canterbury’s rivers dry with irrigation to grow enough grass for the oversized dairy herd.

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? There can be - but it's going to be a rough ride...

The youth raising climate awareness in Pakistan As Pakistan grapples with the aftereffects of more devastating floods that hit last year, a massive youth-led movement across the country has taken it upon itself to not only create awareness but also...

"But for some young climate change activists, the destruction of their own villages and infrastructure has pushed them to raise awareness." interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2026/pak...

A river that feels almost like a lagoon. There are trees on all banks with reflections on the water. 📷 Dreamcatcher

Stillness...

Greenpeace Calls Out Winter Olympics Sponsorship With Eni "Oil & gas like Eni drive the climate crisis, then sponsor the Winter Olympics & Paralympics to greenwash their image," Greenpeace Italy said.

Winter sports need snow, not fossil fuels. Letting Eni sponsor the Winter Olympics is absurd.

Oil and gas companies are melting the very conditions athletes depend on, then using the Games to greenwash their image.

The International Olympic Committee should drop fossil fuel sponsors.

#Oilympics

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads...

And many more will follow...
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