Detailed report on trade-related illicit financial flows in Africa - published by Washington NGO Global Financial Integrity. gfintegrity.org/report/trade...

And they did so under the motto: make America great again!

Mission accomplished: The unreleased Epstein files are out of the headlines.

Iran's government forces may have killed as many as 30,000 civilians, many in gruesome ways. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Anonymous statement by top advertising executives. insidetrack.org.uk/admemo

While reducing imports of natural gas from Russia (good), Europe is massively increasing imports of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the USA. www.reuters.com/business/ene... This is a terrible choice because LNG's climate footprint is 33% LARGER than that of coal. gasoutlook.com/analysis/lng...

US natural gas production, transmission, storage, distribution, & consumption release millions of tons of methane annually. Each ton of methane has the global warming potential of 80+ tons of CO2 over the 20 years following release. www.ft.com/content/2009...

Massive reduction in air pollution adds years to life expectancy in China (3.9 years in Beijing). sammatey.substack.com/p/beijing-la... Can India achieve a comparable feat?

The US exit from the World Health Organization takes effect today. This is the first time any country has left the WHO. It's unclear whether the US will pay the ca. $260m in membership fees it still owes. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Thomas Pogge Another big fossil-fuel country tells us to give up on 1.5 degrees. "It's unrealistic." ft.com/content/dedb... A self-fulfilling prophesy.

The trial of the century? This could be the beginning of the end of Super-PACs, the way billionaires control U.S. politics. www.facebook.com/reel/7979208...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech in Davos: www.facebook.com/reel/1238908...

Yanis Varoufakis visits Yale ... by video link. www.youtube.com/channel/UCwT...

Ardern has withdrawn. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

“Genocide is never done by a small group of people. It is always done with the cooperation, and often the support, of an entire society.” Interview with B'Tselem's Executive Director. zeteo.com/p/yuli-novak...

Volume 6 of Journal ASAP is live. Edited by Thomas Pogge and Michal Apollo, this 126-page issue examines poverty, illicit financial flows, environmental and economic injustice across the globe. Read now: journalasap.org/index.php/as... #GlobalJustice #AcademicImpact #OpenAccess

The US is spending over $1 trillion annually on the military (SIPRI), $125 million on the name change from Department of Defense to Department of War, but is saving by reducing personnel in other areas:

2025 brought a substantial increase in US fossil fuel emissions - www.bbc.com/news/article... - offsetting progress in India and China www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...

January 1, the worst day for slaves in the US, as they would come under a new master, often with break-up of family. time.com/5750833/new-... The limitless cruelty of settler colonialism.

Required reading. The human cost of abrupt cuts in US foreign aid programs. Most other rich states are cutting aid as well, following Trump's lead.

‘I can’t think of a place more pristine’: 133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising

Chris Hedges & Antony Loewenstein discuss the scramble to acquire Israeli surveillance & killing technology battle-tested in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VreL...

The latest injustice perpetrated through the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism: Chevron is to be paid $220m by Ecuador, the country in which it did immense harm to people & the environment. insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

The new World Inequality Report 2026. The richest 56,000 people have three times as much wealth as the poorest half of humankind (who are dying prematurely by the millions each year from poverty-related causes). wir2026.wid.world/www-site/upl...

After nearly all of his family were murdered in the holocaust, Raphael Lemkin spent his life defining genocide, writing the Genocide Convention & getting it adopted unanimously in 1948. The Lemkin Institute comments on Hillary Clinton's genocide denial: www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

From Economist Magazine "The Year in Pictures." Some euphemistic caption! The main "logistical difficulty" was that Israeli forces killed 2615 of the Palestinians coming to get food distributed by the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" & wounded thousands more.

Caveat emptor! The crony capitalism taking hold in the U.S. & around the world will make the economy less efficient & will also reduce the benefits that ordinary employees & investors can expect from economic growth (as the cronies extract more value). www.ft.com/content/85fd...

Governments set themselves up for failure by consigning ecological degradation to a mechanism (COP) that requires unanimity. Predictably, 30 years of failure followed: The fossil-fuel share of global primary energy consumption rose 1995-2025 from 338 to 512 EJ - up over 50%.

Great expose by George Monbiot of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system under which taxpayers pay billions in compensation when laws or policies (protecting workers' rights or the environment) disappoint firms' profit expectations. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Landscape fires are emitting some 70% more CO2 than previously estimated: about 12.5 Gt of CO2 plus over 100 Mt of CH4 (methane) annually on average during 2002-22. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w... Fire emissions will rise with, and thereby further accelerate, global heating.

Freedom of speech UK-style. If you support Palestine Action's opposition to the genocide, you are arrested. If you support the genocide, you're left alone.

The US Environmental Protection Agency: heavily in the business of weakening environmental protections. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Here is an empirical example: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... "Donors" earned a return of 22,000% on their nvestment.

Mumbai. Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Mumbai. Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazingly, most of these gains remains completely untaxed as "unrealized capital gain." When these billionaires need cash, they can borrow against their wealth without a taxable sale of appreciated shares. Ordinary folk's earnings from wages & salaries are taxable, of course.

On this day in 2012, the Tazreen fire in an unsafe textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 workers producing clothes for major international fashion brands. Hundreds were hurt. Unsafe working conditions persist in the textile industry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dh...

Just imagine we had focused on geothermal energy (& electric vehicles) 50 or 100 years ago - all the progress we'd have made by now & all the emissions we'd have avoided. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Eminent climate scientist James Hansen delivers powerful critique of missed opportunities & IPCC failures. jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...

The Trump Administration is planning to open 5 million square kilometers of US coastal waters to oil drilling. That's an area half the size of US territory. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...

We avoid both: harm to our health & expenses for green equipment by exporting hazardous processes to poorer countries where regulations are non-existent or easily circumvented. The local poor pay the price, with their health & even lives.

What frightful nonsense! Because the 16% in developed countries got rich from causing under 50% of the harm, they are "not responsible for climate change." The 84% in poorer countries are responsible, as they caused over 50% (not subtracting pollution from goods exported to the developed countries).

Deaths of Palestinians in Israeli Custody. Report: www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u... Testimonies: www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...

PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen... www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...

America rose to preeminence because of three pillars that President Trump is now systematically undermining. We're so consumed by the daily outrages that I'm not sure we focus enough on the risk that Trump's long-term legacy will be a substantially diminished USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

Economists and inequality experts support call for new International Panel on Inequality www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...

Global Climate Finance. Anything counts - even if it's loans, double-counted with development assistance, goes to Saudi Arabia, fattens donor-country firms, is totally inefficient. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sev... An Ecological Impact Fund could achieve vastly more with these funds.

Great Alaskan wilderness area to be turned over to the fossil-fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/c...

Shell's deadly exploitation of Nigeria's oil. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Israel's foremost human rights organization reporting on conditions in Israel's prisons. www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...