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Month: October 2021

What Climate Finance Means for the Global South in the Run-up to COP26

Rishika Pardikar October 19, 2021 Rishika Pardikar

What tools are available to developing countries to support them as they face climate-change impacts like eroding coastlines and droughts? And how will such tools be made available?

Sunset on the Shell River in 1855 Treaty Territory, now within the U.S. state of Minnesota. The treaty created the Leech Lake and Mille Lacs reservations in northern Minnesota, while ceding territory to the U.S. government. The river is home to many plant, mollusk, fish, insect, bird and animal species, including the endangered Higgins' Eye Pearlymussel and many beds of wild rice. The historic drought of the summer of 2021 reduced the water flow to between 10 percent and 25 percent of its normal rate. As a consequence, it was possible to walk down many miles of the river bed. Enbridge Energy drilled under the river in five locations using Horizontal Directional Drilling methods. https://allaboutpipelines.com/HDD_Calculation/HDDArticle

Photo Essay: Indigenous Struggle Against Enbridge Lines 3 and 5

Toward Freedom Editor October 15, 2021 Toward Freedom Editor

Toward Freedom Board President Rebecca Kemble spent the summer in solidarity with and documenting the Indigenous struggle against oil pipelines and violations of Indignenous sovereignty.

Ugandan President Takes In Afghan Refugees as the CIA’s Enforcer

Ray Mwareya October 13, 2021 Ray Mwareya

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is providing room and board to about 2,000 Afghan refugees, at the request of the United States, until they can be transferred to Western countries in months or years to come. This is a diplomatic triumph for a “useful” tyrant, who has repeatedly acted as a CIA enforcer in the sensitive regions of Central Africa and the Horn of Africa.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi walking towards the dais to address the Nation at Red Fort, on the occasion of 75th Independence Day, in Delhi on August 15, 2021 / Indian Prime Minister's Office

What Does India Get Out of Being Part of ‘The Quad’?

Prabir Purkayastha October 11, 2021 Prabir Purkayastha

Australia has joined the U.S. and U.K. games to contain China, leaving India unclear in the Quad and isolated in Asia. Tied to the waning imperial power of the United States, India is gradually losing strategic autonomy.

Cover of book, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power, 10th anniversary edition by Amy Sonnie and James Tracey, with a foreword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Book Review: ‘Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power’

Patterson Deppen October 8, 2021 Patterson Deppen

"Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times" uncovers the long-hidden and oft-forgotten history of poor white radical organizing on the Left during the 1960s and ‘70s.

Afghan women line up at a World Food Program distribution point / credit: United Nations photo licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Afghan Women’s Frontline Resistance Against 20 Years of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

Alessandra Bajec October 1, 2021 Alessandra Bajec

Securing women’s rights was used to justify the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. However, the Biden administration’s irresponsible pull-out in tandem with the swift, untroubled Taliban return speaks volumes about Washington’s lack of interest to secure respect for human rights and improve women’s lives.

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