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Covering the Global South for 51 years. Wrote “Freedom Rising,” about apartheid South Africa. Bylines @thenation.com, @newrepublic.com, @truthdig.com. Editor @Mondoweiss.net. Reporting about Trump's assault on #immigrants.
@adamisacson.comReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.social13.5 months into the US's lethal boat strikes, cocaine "supply is outstripping demand to the point that prices are plunging" in the US. This piece details many deviously innovative ways that traffickers have adjusted… not really seeing Southcom's vaunted “systemic friction” here.
@bladeofthes.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialHundreds of thousands of students turn out in Brazil's capital Brasilia to support Lula and say "never again Bolsonaro"
The modern Republican party is like a specialized island species where they have no known predators. They are completely unprepared for a hostile environment. They have designed their own simulacrum and no longer how to live among us here, in the Real.
@newrepublic.comReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialAngie Nixon’s scrappy, expectation-defying Senate campaign is starting to draw support from national Democrats like Chris Murphy and Bernie Sanders. trib.al/vneGcXr
@paultree10.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialOkay but the fake Talarico story worked. It got a ton of mainstream coverage — framed as a debunking, mostly, but it was still coverage of a weird weeklong campaign absence. And it drowned out the new(est) Paxton scandal; the NYT has not covered his Dubai fugitive party at all that I can tell.
@alanlstewart.eurosky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialThe demonstrations “represent an outpouring of anger, of frustration at what many Indians feel is the fact that their democracy has been taken away,”
@atrupar.comReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialOssoff: "We will repeal the tariffs, which will reduce grocery prices. We will end this disastrous war which has driven diesel to $6. And we will repeal the healthcare cuts that have doubled premiums for more than a million Georgians. Those are things we can and need to do immediately."
@amazonwatch.orgReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.social“The Trump administration is openly sympathetic to the Bolsonaros, and has been working to subvert & interfere in Brazil’s election.” - Christian Poirier of Amazon Watch in @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2162...
@mondoweiss.netReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialThe Supreme Court’s decision to force Palestinian politician Sami Abu Shehadeh out of the upcoming Israeli elections is the latest sign that there is no place for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state.
@timothynoah.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialSo DOGE, it turns out, was the road to personal enrichment. Shame on me for being surprised. My latest.
@jamesnorth7.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.social#Brazil: Once you have seen the awful consequences of rainforest destruction, you will never forget it. And the Brazilian far-right plans to start burning again. My article @newrepublic.com. @amazonwatch.org
@amazonwatch.org newrepublic.com/article/2162...
@mondoweiss.netReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialIsrael is trying to hide its crimes by banning international reporters from entering Gaza. We must reject this apartheid system of access.
@jamesnorth7.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialThe far likely right-wing win in #Brazil is a catastrophe for the Amazon rainforest. My article @newrepublic.com.
@mongabay.com @telesurenglish.net.web.brid.gy @amazonwatch.org @chathamhouse.org @benjaminfogel.bsky.social
@jamesnorth7.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialThe likely victory of the far-right in #Brazil on October 25 is a climate emergency for the entire planet. Flávio Bolsonaro will start burning the Amazon rainforest again, pushing it closer to a "tipping point." My warning @newrepublic.com. @amazonwatch.org newrepublic.com/article/2162...
@jamesnorth7.bsky.social#Brazil: Once you have seen the awful consequences of rainforest destruction, you will never forget it. And the Brazilian far-right plans to start burning again. My article @newrepublic.com. @amazonwatch.org
@amazonwatch.org newrepublic.com/article/2162...
@antoniajuhasz.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialThe Return of the Brazilian Far Right Is a Climate Catastrophe.
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newrepublic.com/article/2162... via @newrepublic.com
@jamesnorth7.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialThe likely victory of the far-right in #Brazil's October 25 presidential election is not just a danger for most Brazilians. It will be a climate emergency for the entire planet, when the Amazon rainforest burns again. My article @newrepublic.com. @amazonwatch.org newrepublic.com/article/2162...
@jamesnorth7.bsky.socialThe cowardly U.S. business moguls who made the pilgrimage to #SaudiArabia to suck up to the murderous Crown Prince must be wondering if they miscalculated. (Don't forget how they tried to humanize him by calling him "MBS.") @karenattiah.bsky.social
@froomkin.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialAbsolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
@ilhanmn.bsky.socialReposted by @jamesnorth7.bsky.socialTwo-thirds of Americans support Medicare for All. Americans are done with a healthcare system that puts profits before people. Medicare for All can save 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year—turns out, progressive policies can be good politics AND good policy.
