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Basic Income: Progressive Cloak and Neoliberal Dagger
By John Clarke / Socialist Project.
For almost three decades, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been fighting against neoliberal austerity, especially that aspect of it that has involved systematically degrading systems of income support. The underlying motive in this attack has been to render benefit provision as inadequate and precarious as possible so as to create the desperation that can drive people into the expanding low wage sector.
Paris Climate Goals Depend on Promoting Biodiversity
By Ashley Braun / Socialist Project.
A sweeping new report released on March 23rd emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are.
Judge Rejects Exxon's Attempt to Shut Down Climate Fraud Investigations
The federal judge called Exxon's claim that its free speech rights were being violated by the state investigations 'a wild stretch of logic.'
By John H. Cushman Jr. and David Hasemyer / Inside Climate News.
Natural gas: An underrated driver of Saudi hostility towards Iran and Qatar
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
Debilitating hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran is about lots of things, not least who will have the upper hand in a swath of land stretching from Central Asia to the Atlantic coast of Africa. While attention is focused on ensuring that continued containment of Iran ensures that Saudi Arabia has a leg up, geopolitics is but one side of the equation. Natural gas is the other.