"Views of China have improved in recent years while opinions of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most of 36 countries surveyed." www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S.
Views of China have improved recently while views of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most countries surveyed.
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Bus drivers in London are balloting for strike action against extreme working temperatures notesfrombelow.org/article/too-...
Too Hot to Drive, Just Right To Fight
by An anonymous bus driver // Bus drivers in London are balloting for strike action against extreme working temperatures
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We have just witnessed France’s hottest day in recorded history. The severity of this heatwave is truly hard to comprehend. Over 50 millions people will be under red-level extreme heat warnings tomorrow. Sadly, what’s going on there is a foreshadowing of our future. Data: DWD/Météo France
"Forty people have drowned in heatwave-related deaths in France since last Thursday" "The German Lifesaving Association said there were six fatal swimming incidents Friday-Sunday with men in particular overestimating their abilities in the water. " www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Europe heatwave: Drowning deaths soar in France as Europe buckles in record June heat
Forty people have drowned in heatwave-related deaths in France since last Thursday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says.
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Baroness Carr redefining terrorism in real time. Apparently what makes the suffragettes *not* a terrorist group is they didnt ever try to avoid detection. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... people just say stuff, dont they?
Palestine Action ban is lawful, Court of Appeal rules
The Home Office had challenged a High Court ruling that the group's proscription should be quashed.
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The US–Israel war on Iran is driving up fuel, food and transport costs, exposing how dangerously dependent we still are on oil and gas. Here are six radical, practical ideas to protect people from the Iran energy shock and finally break that dependence 👇 act.gp/4vFuEkC #fossilflation
Six radical ideas we need right now to end fossil fuel dependence and protect people from the war on Iran price shock - Greenpeace International
One hundred days after the US and Israel attacked Iran, tens of millions of people are still paying for a crisis they did not choose through higher fuel, food and transport costs. This chaos is the pr...
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Sangita Myska: Over 2000 British Citizens Have Served in the IDF during the Gaza War. Our Government Doesn't Want To Know www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-my...
Sangita Myska: Over 2000 British citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza war. Our government doesn't want to know
A cross-party open letter demands the UK government upholds its obligations to screen returning dual-nationals for their links to potential war crimes
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Map: Oil tankers trapped in the Strait of Hormuz maps.greenpeace.org/maps/gpde/ho... @greenpeace.org
Oil tankers trapped in the Strait of Hormuz
An interactive map by Greenpeace
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Nick Robinson on the Today programme this morning was quick to repeat a misleading line about why we should support new North Sea oil & gas extraction in the UK on the grounds that it's MUCH (4x) cleaner than importing LNG. It's incorrect on several grounds: 🧵
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How is your government responding to the war on Iran and the oil price shock? - Greenpeace International
We analysed 37 government responses introduced since 28 February 2026 to the Iran war oil shock. Many risk deepening the fossil fuel dependence that caused the crisis in the first place.
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'FUND LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT THIS. Real-time estimated U.S. taxpayer cost of Operation Epic Fury' fundliterallyanythingbutthis.netlify.app
Fund Literally Anything But This
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Achieving climate targets is possible while limiting "critical minerals" rush. But responsible political leadership is crucial, says new report www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Achieving climate targets is possible while limiting “critical minerals” rush. But responsible political leadership is crucial, says new report - Greenpeace International
"[It] is incumbent upon our governments who regulate the extractive industry to power an ambitious energy transition without mining critical ecosystems on land or at sea."
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How can we talk to people about climate solutions when faced with rising anti “net zero” narratives & climate denial? 🗣️ Join our next National Meeting with comms advisor Ralph Underhill – to learn practical skills with real world examples. Sign up: act.foe.scot/nat_meeting_...
The EU Parliament's vote on housing today failed to back enshrining housing as a human right, and also left the door open to cutting housing standards and nature protections to benefit developers and speculators Housing policy must prioritise homes for people, not property as an investment
EU must back homes for people, not profit - Greenpeace European Unit
The European Parliament’s plan to tackle the housing crisis risks loosening rules for property developers and speculators, at the expense of housing standards and nature, Greenpeace has warned.
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This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states. The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe United States of America and Israel has just bombed a school full of students in Iran. ~40 students killed and 48 injured. This violates Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn't apply to the U.S. and Israel.
Great podcast ep from New Books In African Studies: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... "from the Vault, we revisit Nadine Gordimer’s James Lecture on the political landscape of South Africa, presented at the New York Institute for the Humanities on October 14, 1982." @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, October 14, 1982
Podcast Episode · New Books in African Studies · February 15 · 1h 9m
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BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.
People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...
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Catch me on today's episode of @overunderpod.bsky.social w/ @carysafoko.bsky.social! Discussing Trump/Maduro/Venezuela, Keir Starmer, Shamima Begun & the AI bubble. open.spotify.com/episode/0OGx...
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Disabled charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Tressa Burke said: "The political choices made in the UK Budget have supercharged the inequalities and unfairness disabled people face."
Disabled charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE
Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, says the situation facing disabled people in the UK is
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Job post: @foescot.bsky.social are hiring a Senior Transport Campaigner. foe.scot/jobs/
Jobs
If you're talented, passionate and want to change the world, then apply for a job with Friends of the Earth Scotland.
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Best thing I've read on football in a while. @rorysmith.bsky.social on Ultras at Falkirk, football post-covid, and masculinity. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
‘It is an identity’: The march of the Scottish ultras | The Observer
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including US + EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels."
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
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In times of such extremes, hope remains as one of the important possibilities for change, a declaration that all is not lost. www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #WellbeingEconomy #ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate
We found hope in worrisome times - Greenpeace International
In times of such extremes, hope remains as one of the important possibilities for change, a declaration that all is not lost.
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Map of 100 poems that mention, address, or center on Patrice Lumumba, written in the long aftermath of his assassination. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b6fa... < Fascinating project by Maya Charlton