A v sobering interview with Gideon Levy from Haaretz.com who reports every week from the West Bank on daily life for the Palestinians. This is a much neglected story. Plus on Media Confidential alan rusbridger and I discuss bolshy newsrooms at the New York Times and NPR - and saturation…

🚍 Since Thatcher's disastrous deregulation, we've seen services cut, delays and cancellations.

But public control is already leading to improvements. We can win better buses for our communities when we push politicians to take back our buses 💪
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Dubai floods: Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

An imp moment as Trades Union Congress publishes its AI @ work bill. Tech is already transforming how we work. Workers needs to be part of that picture - esp if we want to max the benefits. Unions, business & civil society shaping our future together.

👉 tuc.org.uk/research-analy…

Apartheid Israel threatens war with Iran

Biden & Sunak: 'please don't do that, bomb Rafah instead'

Our governments are being played

A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was 'impossible' without human-induced climate change, say scientists.

Last month temperatures soared above 48C in Mali with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat.

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Death toll in #Afghanistan rises to 70 after extreme rainfall and flash floods hit 23 provinces

#Flood #Asia #Flashflood #Flood ing #Rain #Weather #Viral #Climate

Israel has been using attack drones to murder aid workers, journalists & ambulance drivers, & its been raining down missiles on one of the most populated places on earth

So the G7, the US & the EU are going to introduce sanctions against the drone & missile programs of.... Iran

🚨 CAL IS FREE

🔥 They were released from HMP Wandsworth last night after being acquitted, alongside Tez, in the first ever trial for 'Locking On' in the new Public Order Act.

⛓️ Cal had been imprisoned for 6 weeks after taking peaceful action at the Royal Courts of Justice.

And when a storm arrives, liquidity flows to those with “safe assets” closest to the imperial core, while the burden of “structural adjustment” falls on the poorest and weakest shoulders in each society.

'Israel’s government has accelerated the construction of settlements across East Jerusalem, with more than 20 projects totalling thousands of housing units having been approved or advanced since the start of the war in Gaza six months ago.'
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This is what Israel does over and over again.

They commit an unspeakable atrocity.

They then lie, deflect, muddy the waters, and wait until attention moves on, hoping the atrocity is pigeon holed as 'who knows what really happened in the fog of war!'

Rinse and repeat.

Solidarity with UNISON, who are fighting NHS privatisation in Colchester

“Sign the petition and send a clear message to ESNEFT that NHS services should be run for patients, not for some private company’s profits.”

👉 Sign here: tinyurl.com/yv7dbe2c
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🚨JOIN US today for a CSPF panel titled, Agriculture, Financialization and Gender: Exploring the World Bank’s Response to Interlinked Phenomena #SMCSO24

🕐16:15-17:45
🏢World Bank I Building 2-220
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SHOCKING STAT

🔥Last year money flows to developing countries turned negative.🔥

💵$50bn dollars a year is now flowing 🔥OUT OF🔥 the poorest and most vulnerable countries.💵

What’s going on and how can World Bank and @IMFnews fix it?

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#SpringMeetings #WBGMeetings

Netanyahu does not even make a pretence of listening to calls for restraint. Western governments should act, by refusing to send any more weapons to Israel.

Netanyahu rebuffs Cameron’s call for restraint over Iran
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Latest The Polycrisis from Kate Mackenzie and Albert Pinto on the heirachies, interdependencies and workarounds of the global dollar system is very good! phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new-w…

If you are seeing the shocking Dubai floods and are just waking up to the insane situation we are facing with climate change and dont know what or who to believe, this brilliant National Geographic film presented by Leonardo Dicaprio and featuring some of the worlds leading…

As the World Bank and IMF Spring meetings get going in Washington DC, Christian Aid is here at the IDA Forum, pushing for more public, grant-based financing for urgent development needs

This is two-tier healthcare. And only private healthcare shareholders are benefiting from this.

We can’t build the NHS’s killer. Any policy that gives NHS money to private healthcare only empowers them and weakens the NHS.

Invest in the NHS. #NHSPledge

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