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FOLKSTON, Ga.—This quiet town of about 4,800 people has a humble Southern charm. Its low-slung storefronts, historic buildings and broad, quiet streets give it the feel of a place where time moves a little slower. At a viewing platform beside railroad tracks that pass a few yards from Main Street, train enthusiasts gather to watch […]

Why the SWP’s ultra-left moralism disarms the campaign for a data centre moratorium

People are right to want control over their homes and their futures. Socialized housing, not private ownership, can make that promise a reality for everyone.

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Walmart has long stymied attempts to unionize any part of its business. Which is why the breakthrough union victory won by 800 workers at a Mississauga, Ontario regional distribution center is worth closely examining.

The Sant Marti banner reads, in Catalan, “We’ll stop the housing business.” This is a play off a central slogan of the housing rights movement: “Housing is a right, not a business.” Photo: Kit Adam Wainer MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 I attended my neighborhood meeting for planning the general strike in the Spanish state on November… Continue reading A Month to Prepare for the General Strike

Alex Gibney’s Musk throws everything at the world’s first trillionaire, from an AI avatar in a gaming chair to first-person-shooter animation. The result is a four-hour slog that exhausts even Musk haters — and preaches a defeatism that serves the Right.

The world’s development banks continue to finance expansions of large climate-polluting livestock operations, but environmental advocates are notching a victory after they say the World Bank’s private lending arm has withdrawn funding for a controversial feed mill in Brazil. A coalition of environmental groups said the International Finance Corp. will not go forward with a […]

If the Trump administration succeeds in getting their hands on pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers via an extradition request to Spain, it will set a dark precedent for human rights advocates of all kinds.

Known for their distinctive black-ringed eyes, lipstick-like mouth markings and timid, elusive nature, the vaquita is the world’s rarest marine mammal. Last year’s survey—carried out by a team of international scientists and state environmental officials—estimated just seven to 10 remain in the waters of Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. Yet Mexican authorities announced last week […]

More than 30 years ago, a young Susan Collins played a leading role in a battle to cut workers’ compensation that at one point led to the first government shutdown in Maine history.

The Israeli government has threatened to strip the NAZA directors of their citizenship and prosecute them. Their crime is making a film that confronts war guilt head on, something American culture has spent decades medicalizing out of existence.

International solidarity needed as Les Républicains calls to ban La France Insoumise (LFI) and arrest Phillipe Poutou from the NPA-A.

Federal lawmakers want to ban imports of wild sloths to the United States, a move experts say could have global implications for the conservation of the tree-dwelling species.  Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) is set on Tuesday to introduce a bill, co-sponsored by Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), known as the “SLOTHS Act”—Stopping Legalized Organized Trafficking and Harm […]

In the Permian Basin of West Texas, methane gas billows from oil wells. It blasts out of pressure valves on pipelines, wafts from sprawling gas processing plants and rises up in plumes when companies air out systems during routine maintenance in the nation’s largest oilfield. More than a decade of efforts to bring these practices […]

It’s been more than three decades since Democrats held a trifecta in Pennsylvania, but the prospect of a blue wave in next month’s elections has Gov. Josh Shapiro and party leadership optimistic that their time could come in Harrisburg.  After flipping the state House of Representatives in 2022, Democrats now have a chance to take […]

Regulators in Texas did not stop processing permits for data center projects when Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a pause last month, according to an analysis of public records released Monday by the oil and gas watchdog group FracTracker.  Amid an upswell of public opposition to the booming buildout of digital infrastructure in Texas, Abbott directed […]

CODY, Wyo.—On a warm October evening at a bar in downtown Cody, Wyomingites gathered to ponder the future of what some hope will be the Cowboy State’s next booming industry: data centers. This summer, outgoing Gov. Mark Gordon signed an executive order titled “Data Centers the Wyoming Way” that he said would “guide responsible development […]

Across hundreds of miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico, a deep-water ecosystem collapsed after the massive 2011 Deepwater Horizon oil and gas spill, and recovery is uncertain, new research concludes. The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that animal populations, including octopus, krill, squid and shrimp declined […]

Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have called France’s protests the work of Muslim and Third World invaders. Ignoring the movement’s roots in high schooler demonstrations, they are using violent episodes to paint a dark picture of racial conflict.