Interesting explainer on the international effort to defeat malaria everywhere ... except in Africa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYf...

Boeing once again. www.theguardian.com/business/202... Spending too much on lobbying and too little on safety engineering.

The end of the democratic era? See the charts from Martin Wolf's article in the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/2dca...

This AI-driven website tracks insider trading by Members of Congress. www.govgreed.com#platform-pre...

Journal ASAP just published a new Special Issue - dedicated to Indian Perspectives on Environmental Justice. Free of charge to authors & readers, here it is: www.journalasap.org/index.php/as...

US midterms: Supreme Court v. Public Opinion. Winner-takes-all + redistricting allow a party with 45% of the votes to capture 55% of seats in Congress.

Thousands of teachers uniting to ensure that every child around the world gets a chance to learn and develop.

A piece of the US between the two coasts ... www.travelandleisure.com/lawrence-kan...

The US has used accelerated-depreciation rules to incentivize purchase of vehicles about 6000 pounds (the "Hummer Loophole"). The result: a 75% rise in the number of pedestrians killed (mostly low-income people, presumably) since 2009. www.thedrive.com/news/75-more...

Losing leadership on climate science. interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/data/...

Children dying before their 5th birthday. Data from 2023 (Our World in Data). Drastic reductions in rich countries' efforts to protect children around the world ensure elevated U5 mortality levels post-2023.

US-Israeli bombing of Iran put heavy emphasis on key civilian targets: 50 medical & 108 educational facilities. The opening salvo killed 170+ at a school for girls aged 7-12 - todate still no US expression of regret. Intimidation by demonstrated brutality. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Displacing a million Lebanese people & taking their land - ca. 60,000 hectares (150,000 acres) in, or 6% of, Lebanon. Also 24,000 hectares (60,000 acres) in Syria, in addition to the Golan Heights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

As governments retreat from global health, CIFF & the Global Fund are rolling out a new, better & much cheaper TB test in 13 countries. A big step against a disease that still kills 1.23m annually & often remains undiagnosed. www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2026...

Once more: Dr Hussam Abu Safiya www.instagram.com/reel/DZfmWva...

Someone is getting very rich from Venezuelan oil, and it's not the country's ordinary citizens.... Corruption =df using public office for private gain. www.cfr.org/articles/the...

Today is the international Day Against Child Labour. One big win in this fight would be to ensure that every child is entitled to one healthy school meal daily. www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/02/l...

They have staked their claims. The model of Hansen et al. postulates higher climate sensitivity to CO2 & higher aerosol cooling than IPPC. If they are right, 2026 will overtake 2024 to be the hottest year on record...& those living after us will get fried. jimehansen.substack.com/p/yes-2026-i...

Now in solitary confinement, sick, tortured: Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, children's doctor & hospital director, who refused to abandon his patients. Never charged with any wrongdoing. Set him free. www.commondreams.org/news/abu-saf...

Global financing of fossil fuel projects is up 8% year-over-year to $906 bn. Having abandoned their climate commitments, North American banks are in the lead with J.P.Morgan providing $58 bn, closely followed by Bank of America and Citibank. www.ft.com/content/6702...

White phosphorus over Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w...

The slow death of another brave journalist. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A serious warning from experts. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

With sufficient state subsidies it is possible to keep coal - & the associated heavy pollution - going despite much cheaper renewable alternative power sources. apnews.com/article/trum...

The Trump Administration is re-enabling tax abuse by US multinational corporations. NY Times:

Police pressured a 12-year old to make a false statement. A jury convicted the black suspect, and he spent 39 years before being exonerated thanks to the heroic work of the Ohio Innocence Project. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/year...

You think the government will keep your tab water safe? Not this one. www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/h...

Some governments are sending a lot of money on special ops. Here are two examples: www.reuters.com/investigates... www.youtube.com/shorts/Yd6rZ... Always judge with care!

NYTimes on US boat bombings www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This wonderful innovation indeed COULD be a boon to millions of women. www.theguardian.com/society/2026... But it's patented &, with monopoly markup, priced out of reach of most women whom it could benefit. Here some pricing examples:

A key genocidal strategy is to destroy educational & medical capacities with priority: blow up a girls' primary school, a volleyball court, universities, hospitals; do multi-tap strikes to kill rescue & medical workers. Same procedure: Gaza, Lebanon, Iran. www.hhrjournal.org/2026/05/26/s...

Smoking costs about 20 minutes of human lifetime per cigarette (plus much pain & suffering). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Each year, then, China's people enjoy 1410 million years of life & give away 91 million years of future life. Can more be done to reduce this Western habit in China?

Spreading around the world: ripple effects of the US stance that warnings about pollution & climate change are "a hoax." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

We've seen it in global & national poverty & hunger statistics again & again: ex post revisions in definitions & measurement methodologies that convert failure into achievement. Here more of the same in pollution reduction. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Those who defend the human rights of Palestinians in strictly non-violent ways should not be languishing in Israeli jails. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

In 2025, 97 GW of new coal-fired electricity production capacity was newly built, the second-largest annual addition ever. China alone added 78 GW! www.carbonbrief.org/new-coal-pla...

In Lebanon, too, there is a heavy focus on rescue workers and medical personnel. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-leb...

United States Russia Saudi Arabia Iran Israel Yemen Liberia Belarus These were the eight countries that, in sweet harmony, voted against a UN General Assembly resolution backing the 2025 ICJ opinion that states are legally required to address climate change. 141 voted in favor.

This is how they treat citizens of allied states on camera. What do you think they do to Palestinian prisoners off camera? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump cut US foreign aid by 57%; other rich countries followed suit. These cuts greatly darken the prospects of those born into severe poverty, which is often caused by our policies, arms sales, and emissions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

He fought the Epstein class ... and lost his seat. The perennial cycle: the super-rich buy political wins, and the winners of office then enrich their funders. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Persistently excellent, Dan Banik's In Pursuit of Development. Today on Rwanda. globaldevpod.substack.com/p/is-rwanda-...

Phosphorus has been used against civilian targets in Lebanon since 1982. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli... DIME munitions (dispersing tiny tungsten cubes) against Gaza since December 2008. www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

Hussam Abu Safiya, physician to children & director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, imprisoned 500 days without charge. Having managed to visit him in prison, Dr. Guy Shalev, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, reports on his condition. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A huge drain on the world's poor: our international financial system - conceived and imposed by wealthy investors, multinational companies, and their hired lobbyists, lawyers, politicians. aeon.co/essays/to-fu...

Wealth of 157 UK billionaires now equals £670bn, 22% of GDP. Return on wealth (dividends and capital gains) is taxed at lower rates than wages. Extreme concentration of wealth facilitates political power, corruption, economic control. Wither democracy.

Mercury coming your way. Get ready for higher pollution as Trump Administration is rolling back restraints. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/c...

A very big El Niño event is coming. The big one of 1877-78 killed 3-4% of the world's population at the time.

Where Europe, China, & others could collaborate: in the creation of competitive ecological impact rewards designed to promote the development & uptake of green technologies in lower-income countries. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MWEwk_xIUe...

Nicholas Kristof www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o... Why such treatment of detainees? Could it be to ensure that resistance to the occupation employs means (e.g. taking hostages for exchange) that can be condemned as terrorist? What would you do if you had a family member suffering such torture?