Another Angle

Another Angle

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Owning my own opinions since 2007. https://substack.com/@melanymarkham

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“I prefer the world of disruption to the peaceful world. There are more opportunities ...” Patrick Pouyanné Chairman & CEO Total Energies

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A glimmer of hope on our heating planet.

Cecilia Keating@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org

ICYMI - last month @carbonbrief.org looked at why land-use emissions have fallen by 1/3 this century Via 6 charts, article explores: 🍃 why - and how - land-use emissions have declined 🌳 the countries responsible for the decline 🌴 the role of re/afforestation www.carbonbrief.org/why-land-use...

carbonbrief.orgWhy land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts - Carbon BriefEmissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century.

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globalvoices.orgProtest in democracy · Global VoicesWith this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy.
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This is food used as a weapon of war.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

The United Nations’ food agency says it is halving food assistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank because of severe funding shortages and warns it may be forced to make further cuts in Gaza, where it supports 1.5 million people.

nbcnews.toU.N. food agency to halve West Bank food aid amid funding crisis, warns of Gaza cuts“Families who were once thriving and earning a living from their land are now unable to afford enough food,” said Shaun Hughes of the World Food Programme.

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Philippe Auclair
@philippeauclair.bsky.social

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

theguardian.comHow Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streetsUnder Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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People who have 'progressively responsible experience' are ambitious careerists who care little for the causes that their organizations are supposed to serve.

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Leyla Boulton
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Absolutely heartbreaking in Lebanon: ‘the FT saw entire villages with barely a building left standing: historic markets, squares and winding streets reduced to a sea of concrete. The sound of blasts, apparently from building demolitions, continued through the day.’ as.ft.com/r/153a7c25-e...

as.ft.comHow Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah

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Paul Eric
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Never forget : Annie Machon, a former MI5 agent, reveals how Mossad setup a false flag by bombing their own Israeli embassy in London in 1994 and blamed it on Palestinian activists