Users are flooding a website designed for reporting people who violate Texas’ new anti-abortion laws with fake tips. The website was set up by Texas Right to Life to help enforce the new and draconian restrictions on abortion that the US Supreme Court refused to halt.
The new law bans all abortions—including in cases of rape or incest—after six weeks, a period in which many women aren’t even aware that they’re pregnant.
Perhaps the images of these children in North and East Syria, killed by soldiers wearing the Turkish flag, may turn the heads of those who have so far chosen to look away.
A one-year-old baby girl is in critical condition at the hospital in Raqqa, Syria, after Turkish armed forces bombed her home near Ain Issa, Syria, while she and her family members were sleeping .
Four of her family members died in the attack, including a 12-year-old boy and two young girls. The images of their bodies have been made public by the Syrian Democratic Forces.
According to North Press Agency, “between two and three in the morning , a Turkish tank bombarded a civilian home in the village of Safawi, east of Ain Issa. The shelling killed four members of the same family: 54-year-old Zidan Khalaf al-Issa, 12-year-old Ziyad al-Issa, Muna Khalaf al-Issa, and Huda Khalaf al-Issa.”
This is a crime under international law. Whether public outcry may prevent further Turkish aggression is not certain. The bombing within the sovereign territory of another nation-state is an act of aggression under multiple international treaties to which Turkey is a party, such as the Charter of the United Nations.
The Antiuniversity and the Anarchist Bookfair in London are joining forces in 2021 to bring together a week-long Antiuniversity Festival from the 4th to the 10th of September and the Anarchist Bookfair on the 11th and 12th of September.
The Bookfair will be a two-day event, with stalls at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square on the 11th of September, and a day of online streaming workshops and discussions on the 12th of September.
Here we republish an excellent eye-opening study from outside the great US funded Media Lie campaign and the censored response by China. Though somewhat dated now it provides a good basis for real understanding and debate, apart from jingoistic militarist sloganeering
by Joachim H. Spangenberg @ufz.de via Helmholtz Environment Research at https://iiraorg.com
Abstract
The anthropocene is the age where human influences are determining the development of the planet’s ecosystems and thus the bio-physical basis of future human civilisations.
Today China has become the world’s largest economy and its worst polluter with per capita greenhouse gas emissions surpassing the EU average, the world’s largest consumer of all kinds of resources. Even regarding the aggregate contribution to climate change (historical emission residues included), called the climate debt, China has not yet, but will be most probably climbing the top position rather soon.
At the same time China is the world’s largest victim of environmental change, including air and soil pollution, water and land scarcity, biodiversity loss and climate change. Thus not only slowing down the increase but reducing emissions should be a top priority for China, and it is: the government has taken some bold steps. China is the world’s largest investor in renewable energies, has the largest afforestation program, and leads the world in reducing carbon dioxide emission reduction.
As the largest polluter it has extraordinary opportunities to improve the global state of the environment – is it the world’s last best hope for establishing a global ecological civilisation? Some implications regarding the Chinese environmental policy are discussed, some strengths highlighted and some weaknesses identified. However, despite their magnitude, the efforts–and in particular their implementation are not yet sufficient.
We suggest three additional steps which could help China to begin reducing its climate debt within a couple of decades, define a long term perspective for policy planning and adjust its growth model to the challenges of the anthropocene.
Keywords China, pollution, climate change, land use, HANPP, biodiversity, ecological debt/climate debt, CO2, methane, politics, Common but differentiated responsibility, Earth System Science, environmental justice
Introduction
Naming a new epoch signals earth system change, i.e. a point in time when (ubiquitous) local change in aggregate has begun changing the global system, ending the previous period in which human civilisation emerged, the Holocene.
If the term Anthropocene was originally proposed as “a strategy for getting the public to appreciate the extent to which humans were destroying the world” (B. Smith according to Balter 2013), one might consider the beginning of the anthropocene as the time window when evolutionary adaptability of biodiversity and ecosystems could no longer keep up with human alterations of the environment(s).
The Spanish police have cracked down yet again on young people who demonstrated in support of the Arrotxapea Occupied Center .
At least 6 people were arrested after poilice violently attacked the protest against the eviction from Autonomous Squat Center (Gaztetxea). Several were also injured. Those arrested spent the night at the police station. They were eventually released with serious charges the next day
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