Cuba has more than 380,000 urban farms producing 1.5 million tons of vegetables each year.
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“By joining NATO, Sweden and Finland increase the risk of becoming involved in a nuclear conflict” Interview with Jacques Baud*
Jacques Baud: We will have to wait for the next NATO summit in 2023. Then the allies will decide whether to accept-or not-the actual membership of Sweden and Finland. But I expect that it will be done according to plan.
Mass shooters’ most common trait—their gender—gets little press attention
There were a few things the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shooters who killed a combined 31 people had in common: Both used AR-15-style rifles bought legally. Both were just 18 years old. But perhaps most overlooked in the corporate press as a shared characteristic worthy...
10 new albums the U.S. Supreme Court judges won’t listen to
Do you think there's no good protest music these days? So did I, until I started looking for it. The truth is, it's always been out there - it's sometimes just a bit difficult to find. Every month, I search it out, listen to it all, then round up the best of it that...
USA: World’s largest producer of oil AND its largest oil consumer
According to an analysis by Elements Newsletter based on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022, roughly 43% of the world’s oil production came from just three countries in 2021 — the US, Saudi Arabia, and the Russian Federation. Together, these three...
American diplomacy as a tragic drama
As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the U.S./NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting...
Nationalise energy firms, unions demand as BP reports £6.9bn profits and energy bills soar
Fossil fuel firm's profits are ‘an insult to families struggling to get by,’ TUC says.
A clarion call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) rose to the very need of the hour by staging a protest meeting for release of political prisoners. Even if not such large numbers, an event of most qualitative significance in light of neo-fascism sharpening it’s...
B’nai Brith’s lawsuit attacks campus free speech, student democracy
On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).
To save the Planet, we must choose
When Exxon’s CEO is celebrating, you know there’s a problem. But there’s also a solution.
Inflation as a political power play gone wrong – Project Syndicate op-e
Pivotal economic crises frequently evoke multiple explanations that are all correct while missing the point.
Conversation to build bridges of affection
"Thanks for the meeting, for the time, and for building bridges," said the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in a meeting in the afternoon of July 12 with a group of students from New York...