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Monday, 5 June 2017 - 10:55pm
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 10:55pm
Norman Solomon
The Trump administration has already done enormous harm to the United States and the planet. Along the way, Trump has also caused many prominent progressives to degrade their own political discourse. It’s up to us to challenge the corrosive effects of routine hyperbole and outright demagoguery.
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 10:36pm
David Michael Green
There’s no end to the maladies that ail American politics these days. It would, indeed, be far easier and quicker to identify what’s working than to itemize the travails that bedevil our pathetic polity in 2017. Altogether, if this country was a piece of art it would have to combine the orderliness of Pollock with the perceptual logic of Dali, all rooted in the joyful well-being of Hieronymous Bosch, in order to do justice to our times.
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 9:04am
Some parts of the sector are already trying to explain away their expected TEF results. Jim Dickinson argues that TEF should instead force some areas of the sector to face up to its shortcomings.
The post TEF will check the most complacent and privileged appeared first on Wonkhe.
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 9:03am
As the only seat that could possibly be considered a Labour-Green marginal, the students of Bristol West have two parties chasing their votes with promises of free tuition. Mark Leach takes a look.
The post Universities and #GE2017 – Bristol West appeared first on Wonkhe.
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 9:02am
Cardiff Central is a seat being rapidly transformed by its many universities, as is typical of many city centres. David Morris took a look at at the constituency where he was born and raised.
The post Universities and #GE2017 – Cardiff Central appeared first on Wonkhe.
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 9:01am
Beside their divergent views on the merits of tuition fees, there is a surprising amount that is similar across the political parties' plans for education, with a particular focus on the FE and technical sectors, argues Ant Bagshaw.
The post Surprisingly similar – a sweep across the election manifestos appeared first on Wonkhe.
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 1:44am
Common Dreams staff
With its latest official declaration estimating the number of innocent people killed by airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military has admitted killing 484 civilians since beginning a bombing campaign and ground operations to unseat the Islamic State (ISIS) from strongholds in the two countries.
Monday, 5 June 2017 - 12:45am
Nina Lakhani, The Guardian
The international funders behind the hydroelectric dam opposed by murdered Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres are withdrawing from the project, the Guardian can reveal.
Three financial institutions had pledged loans worth $44m for the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque river, which is considered sacred by the Lenca people and which Caceres campaigned against before her death.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:59pm
John Atcheson
No matter how bad you think Trump’s decision to drop out of the Paris Agreement was, the reality is worse. It is, in fact, by far the worst thing from the very broad list of bad things he’s doing.
This article outlines why we have less time to act to avoid catastrophic climate change than we’ve been led to believe, and it outlines a way forward.
We Can Make Trump Irrelevant
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:34pm
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Paris is also known as the City of Light. And with his decision yesterday to exit the Paris climate accord, Donald Trump’s diplomatic dereliction has put a shimmering spotlight on how to address the climate emergency: start at the local level.
While the 2015 signing of the deal was a cause for optimism, for many of us it was not a cause for celebration. When it was first introduced, we witnessed many activists taking to the streets in protest because the accord did not go far enough.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:29pm
John Light
On Thursday last week, President Donald Trump delivered on years of promises to his supporters and spat in the face of the world by pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. After the announcement, many of our allies publicly denounced the US — but, privately, reacted with relief that the US had cleared the field for countries who take climate change seriously to ramp up their efforts.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:20pm
Andrew Mitrovica
Two speeches. Delivered 14 years apart by one British politician, Jeremy Corbyn. Each connected by one word: truth. The shame: the world failed to heed the wisdom of the first speech, and is unlikely to heed the wisdom of the second speech.