“Carbon Bomb” Financiers Threaten World’s Ability to Curb Warming
Richard B. Levine/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Banks pumped more than $150 billion last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of stopping the planet heating to dangerous levels, the Guardian can reveal. The carbon bombs—425 extraction projects…
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
Residents of a Central Romana batey in 2021.Pedro Farais-Nardi Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel…
“Attacking Health Workers Is a War Crime”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1996, when Leonard Rubenstein became the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, the war in the former Yugoslavia had just ended. PHR, a US-based advocacy group, prepared a report on the brutal attacks on Kosovo Hospital in…
An Israeli Journalist on the Hamas Attack and the “Unfathomable and Criminal” Crisis in Gaza
People extinguish a fire in the site of Israeli air strikes as fighting between Israeli troops and Islamist Hamas militants continues. Abed Rahim Khatib/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2003, Haggai Matar made headlines as a teenager for refusing to perform mandatory service…
Biden Administration Appoints a Special Envoy for Gaza’s Humanitarian Issues
Satterfield in Lebanon while mediating a 2019 border dispute with Israel.Hassan Ammar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Sunday, amid worsening conditions in Gaza, the US State Department named former Ambassador David Satterfield as a special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues. Satterfield, an…
Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Worsens Ahead of Expected Israeli Ground Offensive
An injured Palestinian child is rushed to a hospital after an Israeli airstrike.Abed Rahim Khatib/DPA, Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Israel Defense Forces has renewed evacuation orders for portions of Gaza as it prepares its announced plans for “coordinated attacks from the air,…