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Ben Rawlence

@BenRawlence

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth, City of Thorns, Radio Congo. CEO Black Mountains College

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Jonathan Cook(@Jonathan_K_Cook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How an ‘antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza.

Read my latest article here: middleeasteye.net/opinion/antise…

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Adam Bienkov(@AdamBienkov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ofcom claims there is 'no consensus' among the public to ban Nigel Farage and other politicians from presenting on GB News

However, new WeThink finds

- 63% want all politician presenters banned
- Majority of supporters of all parties agree
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/26/fir…

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Jonathan Cook(@Jonathan_K_Cook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I explained why a shadowy third party would be willing to pay out millions to have an influence operation like the Jewish Chronicle – libelling Israel's critics as antisemites – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-09-0…

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Jonathan Cook(@Jonathan_K_Cook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger tries to dig into the accounts of the rabidly pro-Israel Jewish Chronicle newspaper to find out who has written off its massive debts – amassed in the many defamation settlements it has had to pay out over its campaign to smear Jeremy Corbyn's…

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Andrew Ahern(@PoliticOfNature) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by about $38 trillion, or almost a fifth, no matter how aggressively humanity cuts carbon pollution.” phys.org/news/2024-04-c…

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ashok kumar 🇵🇸(@broseph_stalin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

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Richard Burgon MP(@RichardBurgon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This Friday I'm bringing a Parliamentary Bill to ban MPs taking a single penny from oil & gas companies.

These firms have driven up your energy bills and brought us to the edge of climate catastrophe.

Yet some MPs have pocketed vast sums of money from them.

It must be stopped.

This Friday I'm bringing a Parliamentary Bill to ban MPs taking a single penny from oil & gas companies. These firms have driven up your energy bills and brought us to the edge of climate catastrophe. Yet some MPs have pocketed vast sums of money from them. It must be stopped.
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Shamari K. Reid(@shamarikreid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“what struck me most about those who are protesting is how long they waited. the restraint they showed. not the spontaneity, the restraint. they waited and waited for justice. and it didn’t come. no one talks about that...” - Toni Morrison

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Andrew Ahern(@PoliticOfNature) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Costa Rica runs on ~99% renewable energy. So what was the greatest enabler for them to be able to do do that?

According to Costa Rica’s director of sustainability in energy management, it is the ability to do planning rather than relying on the market. theverge.com/24134891/renew…

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RMT(@RMTunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Our problems in this country are not arriving on a beach in Kent from France.
They’re arriving because of the oligarchs and the billionaires that run our society.”

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Leon Simons(@LeonSimons8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Anyone living around the North Pacific or North Atlantic Ocean?

You might want to try and adapt to very rapid climate change!

Anyone living around the North Pacific or North Atlantic Ocean? You might want to try and adapt to very rapid climate change!
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Jason Hickel(@jasonhickel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Violated, dishonored, wading in blood, dripping filth – there stands bourgeois society. This is it, in reality. Not all spic and span and moral, with pretense to culture, philosophy, ethics, order, peace, and the rule of law – but the ravening beast...'

-Rosa Luxemburg

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@FerRacimo@fediscience.org(@FerRacimo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Students and staff at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, walking into one of the main campus complexes, in solidarity with the students in Columbia and other US universities, and demanding our university end its investments supporting genocide in Palestine.

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Trita Parsi(@tparsi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is what American students are protesting:

Mass graves in Gaza clearly show that Israel carried out summary executions.

- 392 (!) bodies recovered, incl children
- 267 can't be identified
- Many appear to have been buried alive

Biden is underwriting the killings.

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Seas At Risk(@SeasAtRisk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fact: 90% of the world's most bottom-trawled seas are in Europe.⁠

Fact: The 🇪🇺 allows it in 'protected' waters.

Fact: We can help end this marine decimation. ✊🏾 ⁠

Add your name here & tell the EU to ! 👉 seas-at-risk.org/join-the-movem… onlyone Oceana in Europe

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Project Syndicate(@ProSyn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Climate change could lead to an additional 60,000 malaria deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 – almost a 15% increase in mortality – warned Speak Up Africa’s Yacine Diop Djibo in 2022. bit.ly/4cL0Pqc

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Timothée Parrique(@timparrique) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The lowest hanging fruit of the ecological transition is to stop inciting people to fly more. There is no excuse for not having done that already. Stay Grounded Network

The lowest hanging fruit of the ecological transition is to stop inciting people to fly more. There is no excuse for not having done that already. @StayGroundedNet
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