Investigative journalist Anthony Baxter travels between the US Presidential race and the Scottish countryside to chronicle the troubling confrontation between Donald Trump and a feisty 92-year-old widow, Molly Forbes, as she refuses to make way for his golf course. This shocking insight to a David and goliath battle is a remarkable document of the disconnect…
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Our Common Future [ by Ian Bremmer ] Amsterdam, Jan1st 2024 — It used to be an easy question to answer. If you’re over 45 like me, you grew up in a world that was dominated by two giants. The United States called the shots on one side of the Wall, the Soviets set the rules on…
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Can you put a price on the wonders of nature? Kingston-Upon-Hull, Tokyo and Shiretoko Spurn point would be a desolate place to die. Stretching five precarious kilometres into the North Sea, the constantly shifting finger of East Yorkshire coast is little more than a narrow sand bank held together by sea grass, the only obvious signs…
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“Environmentalists aren’t famously keen on capitalism. Given that its rise has coincided with a two-thirds decline in wildlife worldwide, it’s not hard to see why. Many conclude that if capitalism got us into these dire ecological straits, it has little chance of getting us out. Akshat Rathi cautions against that conclusion: we’ve left it so…
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In the 1960s, for the United States, the greatest threat was just 90 miles south of Florida, Cuba and the communist dictatorship established by Fidel Castro and his proxy Che Guevara. Che Guevara was a scholar, philosopher, writer, teacher, healer, revolutionary, mass murderer, psychopath. So who was the real Che Guevara? Hosted by Colin D.…
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Spotlight on Climate Change Environment at a Glance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Spotlight on climate change presents the progress made by countries in the region in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality and protecting natural habitats. It describes the level of exposure to climate-related hazards and some of the main policy instruments…
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Peter M. Woff – eyesonsuriname Since taking office as president of Suriname, president Chandrikapersad Santokhi has failed time after time and again during his foreign state visits, except in his own country. His first state visit to the Netherlands in September 2021 was an unmitigated nightmare, culminating in an angry mob that primitively rejected his…
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