Vanishing Biodiversity Threatens Our Food
The biodiversity that is crucial for our food and agriculture is disappearing by the day FAO launches the first-ever global report on the state of biodiversity that underpins our food systems ROME—The first-ever report of its kind
Published : 23 February 2019
USA: Providing Homes Cheaper than Homelessness
The most cost-effective way to help the homeless is to give them homes. Addressing housing directly is cheaper than relying on cops and emergency rooms. Even as the national economy continues its slow-but-steady pace of improvement,
Published : 20 February 2019
Post-capitalism: Life within Environmental Limits
Capitalism’s limitless growth on a finite planet means the economic system we take for granted could end soon. If so, transformative and sustainable change must come from grassroots action It may seem as though capitalism
Published : 19 February 2019
Palestine: ‘Slow Violence’ of the Occupation
Slow Violence University of New Hampshire and Duke researchers document human cost of infrastructure attacks in Gaza and West Bank Israel’s targeting of agricultural, water and energy infrastructures in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has had
Published : 19 February 2019
Palestine: Israel Evicts Quds Palestinians for Settlers
Israel clears Palestinians from Jerusalem home claimed by settlers. The Palestinian family members had lived there since the 1960s. JERUSALEM/AL-QUDS—Israeli police on Sunday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem`s
Published : 17 February 2019
Palestine/Israel: Fake Justices
In early September 2018, after years of legal proceedings, the justices of Israel’s High Court determined there was no legal obstacle to demolishing the structures in the community of al-Khan al-Ahmar, located about two kilometers
Published : 13 February 2019
Beyond Fueling Land Grabs
CRISIS KAGADI - Kaswa is a small village along river Muzizi, 285 kilometers west of Kampala, in Kagadi district. Up to 17 hectares of this village sit on a site that will, in the next three
Published : 13 February 2019
West Bank Demolitions, Displacement-January 2019
In January, 40 Palestinian-owned structures were demolished or seized by the Israeli authorities, almost the same as the monthly average recorded in 2018, displacing 44 people and otherwise affecting some 200 others. One of the demolitions took
Published : 12 February 2019
EU-Morocco Fishery Accord Violates Law—Again
EU-Morocco fisheries agreement violates international humanitarian law and denies self-determination of Western Sahara people. Today, Members of the European Parliament voted in favour of the planned fisheries agreement between the European Union and Morocco. The vast
Published : 12 February 2019
