The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer in occupied West Bank
Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old Palestinian photographer, suffered injuries to his head and torso and was taken to the hospital by ambulance, according to the international news agency. The agency's news director, Phil Chetwynd, condemned the incident as a 'serious' and 'unacceptable' attack.
Has the high court set Australia’s fossil fuel producers shaking in their boots? They should be | Jacqueline Peel
A high court victory sets a new baseline for coal and gas projects in New South Wales – and potentially for the rest of Australia Fossil fuel producers across the country are shifting uncomfortably, after the high court of Australia handed down its first climate case decision in MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group on Wednesday. For the climate conscious, the outcome was largely what was hoped for: the court ruled that the Independent Planning Commission, the body that approved the extension of Mount Pleasant open-cut coalmine’s life by 22 years – doubling its output to 21m tonnes a year until 2048 – did not do enough to consider the mine’s scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions or how they might be mitigated. Continue reading...
In Gaza, after 20 years without elections, an uncertain vote
Caught between impatience for political renewal and deep mistrust toward Hamas, whom they hold responsible for provoking the devastating Israeli war through the October 7 massacres, Gazans struggle to imagine holding an election in a territory that has been ravaged and remains deeply insecure.
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