Daily News 09/18
Daily News 09/18
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
Anti-Trump protesters march through London as president basks in royal welcome Thousands of people marched through London on Wednesday to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain while a much smaller crowd gathered outside the royal Windsor Castle west of the capital to give him a warm welcome.
Video: The Danger of Trump’s Stock TradingTrump says AI doesn’t need guardrails — only a “strong and smart” president. He just so happens to be heavily invested in some of the biggest corporations pushing AI. Why should we trust him to protect the public when his own financial benefit is at stake?
Video: Chris Hedges: The Next Election May be Our Last
US payrolls benchmark revision estimate suggests labor market weaker than previously thought The U.S. economy likely created 911,000 fewer jobs in the 12 months through March than previously estimated, the government said on Tuesday, suggesting that job growth was already stalling before President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs on imports.
Trump has fanned the flames of divisive politics around the world, says Sadiq Khan Exclusive: London mayor says US president has ‘perhaps done the most’ to encourage far right
TRUMP TROOP DEPLOYMENT IN U.S. CLIMBS TO 35,000 BOOTS ON THE GROUND A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues.
Police Say No Foul Play After Black Mississippi Student Found Hanging From Tree But legislators and community members said they are still seeking answers surrounding Demartravion “Trey” Reed’s death. ABlack college student who was found hanging from a tree on his school’s campus in Mississippi was not the victim of foul play law enforcement officials said, countering online speculation that he was the victim of a lynching.
The United States has been at Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace since 1950!: The Department of Forever War
Britain’s largest right-wing demo in a generation – a damning indictment of the left
US Allies Are Not Off-Limits: Israel’s Qatar Strike Shatters Gulf Illusions
Bill Would Allow Unlimited US Weapons Transfers to Israel With Little Oversight It would also stop requiring the State Department to submit reports to Congress on issues like human rights abroad.
Stopping the Genocide Requires an Armed Protective ForceThe Palestinian armed resistance has defended Gaza for almost two years now, successfully preventing Israel from expelling two million people from their homeland. But, outgunned as they are by Israel’s technology and its unlimited supply of war matériel from the United States, the resistance fighters now need the world’s help—and soon—to drive out the Israeli occupation forces and end the genocide. There’s a realistic mechanism to make that happen under United Nations auspices, so a growing global movement is now demanding that the UN get off its butt and come to Gaza’s rescue.
Israel’s war on the truthReporters Without Borders has warned that, “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”. Gaza has become the deadliest place for journalists in the world. Over 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel since 7 October 2023.
Trump administration denies entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead of UN general assemblyIt is the second year this administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel ahead of the forum
The Extremism of ModeratesAs Donald Trump stirs up a fresh Red Scare by branding communism a “mortal threat” to the United States, corporate-backed “moderates” in the Democratic Party have launched their own moral crusade against a surging left flank. Last month, the centrist think tank Third Way pledged $15 million to flood the airwaves with anti-communist ad campaigns specifically targeting the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) through 2028. Even high-profile self-identified “democratic socialists” like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have begun punching left, writing off early post-2020 movement rhetoric as “Woke 1.0” and “crazy,” while deriding popular calls for police and prison abolition that erupted after the murder of George Floyd. In Minnesota, where last winter’s federal Operation Metro Surge disappeared thousands and left two activists dead, “progressive” Democratic candidates running in the midterms don’t have “Abolish ICE” in their platforms, turning their backs on the groundswell of grassroots organizing that mobilized more than 100,000 people for two historic general strikes in the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives—an institution hovering at an abysmal 15 percent approval rating—recently passed a resolution condemning socialism “in all its forms,” backed by a chorus of Democratic votes.
Demand the impossible! Demand the future!In her latest column, Fiona Lali explains how “the job of communists today is not simply to expose the ills of capitalism, they have already been laid bare for the world to see. Our job is to overcome the cynicism and despair that holds us back.”
Macklemore vs. McCarthyismThe rapper Macklemore was booted off a US tour with popstar Ed Sheeran after speaking up for Palestine on stage. Rather than go quietly, he went public about the coordinated campaign behind his cancelling, leading all the other support acts to abandon the tour in solidarity. This act of defiance and moral courage has tapped into a growing mood of disgust towards Israel’s genocidal actions in the Middle East and McCarthyite efforts to silence dissent. Macklemore raised slogans in solidarity with Gaza during two shows at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on 4-5 September. On the second date, Macklemore delivered a two-minute introduction to ‘Hind’s Hall’, written in support of nationwide student encampments for Palestine in 2024: “A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: free Palestine. I said, ‘Free Palestine!’ I want those words to be loud and clear, so that people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten about them.”
Rising NATO military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns Pollution could be on par with annual emissions generated by Brazil as experts warn of climate effects of war.
China’s Electric Vehicle Influence Expands Nearly Everywhere, Except the US and Canada
Young climate activists in court aim to stop Trump’s pro-fossil fuel executive ordersGroup of activists, who range in age from seven to 25, include plaintiffs who won landmark climate case in Montana two years ago
124 Land Defenders Killed in 2025 Amid Trump-Driven Lawlessness and Aid Cuts “When foreign aid retreats, Indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers can be left with fewer resources and less support as they defend the forests, rivers, and other ecosystems that sustain their communities and help keep the global climate stable,” one campaigner said.
Satellites show more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica lost in 47 years About 12.5 trillion tons of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice 5 feet deep across the continental United States, according to a major scientific report. A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet’s two major ice sheets, with five-sixths of the melt not coming from hotter air, but from warmer waters eating away at the ice sheets from below and the sides, with glaciers flowing into the oceans, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Scientific Data. That’s bad news for future sea level rise, the study’s authors said. “The ice sheets are melting away fast,” said study co-author Eric Rignot, an ice scientist at University of California, Irvine. “We are melting the polar regions, sea level is rising worldwide and will exacerbate the vulnerability of coastal regions.”
World Health Organization: Climate Change Overview: Climate change is impacting human lives and health in a variety of ways. It threatens the essential ingredients of good health – clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply and safe shelter – and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress alone. The direct damage costs to health are estimated to be between US$ 2–4 billion per year by 2030. Areas with weak health infrastructure – mostly in developing countries – will be the least able to cope without assistance to prepare and respond. Greenhouse gas emissions that result from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels are major contributors to both climate change and air pollution. Many policies and individual measures, such as transport, food and energy use choices, have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce major health co-benefits, particularly by abating air pollution. The phase out of polluting energy systems, for example, or the promotion of public transportation and active movement, could both lower carbon emissions and cut the burden of household and ambient air pollution, which cause 7 million premature deaths per year Impact: Climate change is already impacting health in a myriad of ways, including by leading to death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, storms and floods, the disruption of food systems, increases in zoonoses and food-, water- and vector-borne diseases, and mental health issues. Furthermore, climate change is undermining many of the social determinants for good health, such as livelihoods, equality and access to health care and social support structures. These climate-sensitive health risks are disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, including women, children, ethnic minorities, poor communities, migrants or displaced persons, older populations and those with underlying health conditions. In the short to medium term, the health impacts of climate change will be determined mainly by the vulnerability of populations, their resilience to the current rate of climate change and the extent and pace of adaptation. In the longer term, the effects will increasingly depend on the extent to which transformational action is taken now to reduce emissions and avoid the breaching of dangerous temperature thresholds and potential irreversible tipping points. WHO ResposeWHO supports countries in building climate-resilient health systems and tracking national progress in protecting health from climate change, as well as in assessing the health gains that would result from the implementation of the existing Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement, and the potential for larger gains from more ambitious climate action. WHO’s work plan on climate change and health includes:
- advocacy and partnerships: coordinating with partner agencies within the UN system, and ensuring that health is properly repred in the climate change agenda, as well as providing and disseminating information on the threats that climate change presents to human health and opportunities to promote health while cutting carbon emissions;
- monitoring science and evidence: coordinating reviews of the scientific evidence on the links between climate change and health; assessing country’s preparedness and needs when facing climate change; and developing a global research agenda;
- supporting countries to protect human health from climate change: strengthening national capacities and improving the resilience and adaptive capacity of health systems to deal with the adverse health effects of climate change; and
- building capacity on climate change and human health: assisting countries to build capacity to reduce health vulnerability to climate change and promoting health while reducing carbon emissions.esent
WHO Response: WHO supports countries in building climate-resilient health systems and tracking national progress in protecting health from climate change, as well as in assessing the health gains that would result from the implementation of the existing Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement, and the potential for larger gains from more ambitious climate action. WHO’s work plan on climate change and health includes:
- advocacy and partnerships: coordinating with partner agencies within the UN system, and ensuring that health is properly represented in the climate change agenda, as well as providing and disseminating information on the threats that climate change presents to human health and opportunities to promote health while cutting carbon emissions;
- monitoring science and evidence: coordinating reviews of the scientific evidence on the links between climate change and health; assessing country’s preparedness and needs when facing climate change; and developing a global research agenda;
- supporting countries to protect human health from climate change: strengthening national capacities and improving the resilience and adaptive capacity of health systems to deal with the adverse health effects of climate change; and
- building capacity on climate change and human health: assisting countries to build capacity to reduce health vulnerability to climate change and promoting health while reducing carbon emissions.