Tag: war

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US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger

Editorial BoardMay 28, 2026

“We take from the hungry to give to the starving,” the World Food Programme warns.

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Ravenna Says No to Genocide

Editorial BoardMay 24, 2026

Major Italian port commits to upholding international law and human rights after months of struggle by the dock workers.

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A solar farm in Cuba.

Cuba Is Quietly Driving One of the Fastest Solar Transitions in the World

Editorial BoardMay 20, 2026

The Caribbean country more than tripled its renewable energy share from 3% to 10% within a year—all while navigating a crippling US-led trade embargo.

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Cuba Has Run Out of Diesel And Fuel Oil, Energy Minister says

Editorial BoardMay 14, 2026

Hospitals limit services and schools shutter as energy embargo drives Cuba toward its worst humanitarian crisis in decades.

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During World War I, "acoustic locators" were employed to sit on open fields and detect enemy aircraft with giant listening horns.

The Worker is Dead, Long Live the Worker!

Editorial BoardMay 9, 2026

May Day once again reminded us that organized labor remains one of the most influential non-state actors on the global arena. From Manila to São Paulo, and from Berlin and Mexico City, millions took the streets as one—and not only for a better wage.

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Turbulence in Eastern Mediterranean: How Warships and Warming Seas Strangle Fish and Fishermen

Iason AthanasiadisApril 29, 2026

With military tensions soaring, the Eastern Mediterranean is increasingly criss-crossed by military vessels, and at the risk of the same environmental damage seen on its neighboring seas. With world leaders openly talking of a global conflict just round the corner, what is to happen to the seas that we hardly got to know?

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Military Spending Growing Fastest in Europe: a 14% Increase in 2025

Editorial BoardApril 28, 2026

Global military spending reached a new record high in 2025, driven by armament surge in Central and Western Europe.

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An anchored tanker ship pictured from above.

From Seas of Solidarity to Circuits of Empire: How Energy Remade the Mediterranean

Mal ReyApril 15, 2026

Far from cradling the Palestinian resistance, Cyprus and Greece are now complicit partners in the surveillance and onslaught of its liberation fighters. How did this corridor of solidarity shift so dramatically?

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The Mediterranean at Breaking Point

Editorial BoardApril 11, 2026

© Jonathan Cooper Link copied! The alarm was launched on April 5, from somewhere in the Central Mediterranean. A small boat departed from Tajoura, a […]

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Podcast: Transnational Feminism And Culture of Life

Margo Okazawa-ReyMarch 21, 2026

In this Turning Point magazine conversation, the first of its kind, Japanese, Kurdish, Rohingya, and Palestinian-Lebanese feminists explore how transnational feminism can create genuine security based on life and freedom and challenge what is called the “culture of killing.”