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El Niño is being supersized before our eyes
(World Meteorological Organization, September 3, 2026). El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of floods, drought and extreme heat, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Continue reading
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We All Came Here from Somewhere: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2026)
Thursday, 10 September 2026 — The Tricontinental Capitalism depends on precarious migrant labour to discipline workers, deepen division, and extract wealth while weaponising anti-immigrant rhetoric to obscure the neoliberal destruction of public services and social welfare. Jiang Zhaohe (China), detail from Liumin Tu (Refugees), 1943. Continue reading
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🔴 You vs Epstein-class
Over the years our journalists have been detained, interrogated, surveilled, canceled and lobbied against by national security agencies and special interest groups, including directly by the Israel lobby. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report September 9, 2026
Wednesday, 9 September 2026 — Black Agenda Report Hakeem Jeffries, Monkeys, Errand Boys, and Black Misleadership Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Hakeem Jeffries climbs the political ladder because he engages in dirty deeds with the world’s worst people. Being called a monkey gives him an easy out. The presence of a Black… Continue reading
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PEPE ESCOBAR BREAKS:North Korea Just Delivered Carrier-Killer Drones To Iran
Iran’s leadership has concluded that this war cannot be settled at a negotiating table. In this episode, recorded 8 September 2026, Pepe Escobar — reporting from Seoul — and Zulfiqar Ali lay out how every diplomatic off-ramp brokered by Pakistan collapsed, why Tehran has shifted from a defensive to an offensive posture, and what that… Continue reading
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The Innocents Pay While the Culprits Remain Unaccountable
On August 26, the collapse of a massive glacier and the bedrock of the surrounding area near Mount Langtang Lirung along the Nepal-Tibet border triggered a violent surge of water, ice, and debris, which rushed down the Lende Khola, Bhote Koshi, and Trishuli river corridors. Known as a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood, or GLOF, the… Continue reading
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GMWatch Daily Digest 9 September 2026
Wednesday, 9 September 2026 — GMWatch European Chemicals Agency dismisses Ramazzini findings of glyphosate carcinogenicity In a September 8, 2026 meeting, the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA’s) Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) concluded that glyphosate does not warrant a classification for carcinogenicity, even after reviewing new data from the Ramazzini Institute. ECHA’s conclusion reiterates the findings of… Continue reading
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GMWatch Daily Digest 8 September 2026
Tuesday, 8 September 2026 — GMWatch Pakistan: GMO maize plan termed dead end for agriculture The GMO maize plan announced last week has sparked significant backlash, with agricultural stakeholders expressing concerns over what they call erosion of agricultural sovereignty, potential export failures, and bio-security threats. The national agriculture sector is heading for a major confrontation… Continue reading
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What’s Behind Trump’s Response to the Iran Crisis?
The Strait of Hormuz ultimately places Trump in a dilemma of choosing between only two ways to lose: to forgo it and bury his career, or to go through with it and bury the hegemony he claims to be preserving. Continue reading
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Iceland Votes No: Sovereignty Over Brussels
On August 29, 2026, Icelanders delivered a verdict that carried an uncomfortable implication for Brussels. By 52.8 percent to 47.2 percent, they rejected the proposal to resume EU accession negotiations. The result was not a rejection of Europe. It was a vote for retaining control. Continue reading
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Saxophone Colossus- The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
1. The life of Sonny Rollins 2. The unprecedented way Sonny documented his life…including among other things EVERY practice session throughout his long career 3. The new biography of Sonny by Aidan Levy which gathers the superabundance of Rollins material into a fascinating page turner that goes deep into the creative life of one of… Continue reading
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RALLY: People vs Palantir ✊
All across the world, campaigners are building resistance to US spy tech company Palantir. Here in the UK, we have been demanding that Palantir’s controversial NHS contract is dropped. But our campaign is just one part of a much bigger global fight. Continue reading
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Palestinian doctors are under attack in Israel
The destruction of the healthcare system that Palestinians can access is by no means limited to Gaza or the West Bank. Alongside the arrests of doctors in the West Bank, a campaign has been launched in the media against doctors who are Palestinian citizens of Israel and work in Israeli hospitals. Continue reading
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Starmer, Burnham and A Very British Coup
The story of how the generals and spooks fell out of love with Starmer and engineered his orderly ousting by a more malleable successor. Continue reading
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Brian Berletic: Iran HITS US Navy HARD, Trump Readies MASSIVE Counter Strike!
Sunday, 6 September 2026 — Danny Haiphong We dive into the big picture of the Iran war and its massive global implications leading straight into a World War 3 scenario already underway. Continue reading
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The Adolescent Health Study
And that weird not-really-Covid AI project from last year reappears to contradict what was asserted at the time. Continue reading
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The Colby Doctrine–Wolfowitz Updated to Stabilize Imperial Decline & Death of the American Republic
For many months now, I’ve watched Dr. Richard Wolff slowly advance his thesis that the Outlaw US Empire in an attempt to halt its decline having realized it cannot fulfill the Wolfowitz Doctrine or the plans laid out in Joint Vision 2010 or Joint Vision 2020 to attain full spectrum dominance of the world—become the… Continue reading
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The dangerous European illusion about a war with Russia
The Leipzig incident exposed something more troubling than the incident itself: the confidence with which German and European authorities seem to approach the possibility of a direct confrontation with Russia. Continue reading
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Why they hate Gary, Indiana
For generations, the rule for Black workers in the United States has been “last hired, first fired.” In the Black city of Gary, Indiana, it’s now “the last place where the lights came back on.” Continue reading
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Climate communication is irrationally hopeful. We need to tell the truth about the Great Unraveling
Theresa Leisgang spent over ten years reporting on environmental and human rights issues as a journalist, travelling for magazines and researching for her book, in places where the effects of the climate crisis are already an existential threat to livelihoods. She has interviewed people from the Amazon region to the Arctic, from South Africa to eastern Brandenburg,… Continue reading
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