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The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities. By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture? Read The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket? Read more. The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world Read more. How an an*mal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age Read more. The crucial decisions about major infrastructure are made behind closed doors. Read more. Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks The little-known history of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in a New York primary hints at a coming transformation in US politics Read As state bodies are dismantled, corporations are freed to rip the living world apart Read more. The denial of popular sovereignty by mainstream leaders allows demagogues like Trump to pose as democratic champions. Read more. Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet Read more.