Daily News 07/10

Daily News 07/10

Francesca Albanese: “The World Is Not Sleeping—It Is Looking Away” In When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine, the UN Special Rapporteur speaks with Chris Hedges about Gaza, international law, media complicity, and why she believes silence has become one of the greatest enablers of injustice.

Wars are Profitable for Trump and his Family: Trump Acquired as Much as $24 Million in Defense Stocks Last Year The president’s portfolio kept accumulating shares in companies — like Palantir and Lockheed Martin — that were benefiting directly from his global military escalations.

US military launches fresh strikes on Iran as Donald Trump threatens ‘much worse’ to come US president says new strikes are ‘retribution’ after ships hit in strait of Hormuz; Iranian state media report explosions in several locations

Capitalism’s ‘Drug War’ History: Opium Wars: when Britain was the biggest drug dealer in historyIn the 19th Century, British imperialists waged the Opium Wars and forcibly dragged the Chinese state into the world market. This began what is known in China as its ‘century of humiliation’, with British capitalism stoking the world’s first opiate epidemic to bleed the country dry.

Our Rights to Life, Liberty, and Liberty, are Under Attack!: Americans are Not as Well Off as People in Peer Nations: US Safety Net’s Shortfalls Show up in Global DataAs the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, the global data we collect and analyze shows that the country is failing to “promote the general Welfare,” as the Constitution’s framers promised a little more than a decade later.

When the Media Turned Away, ICE Got Worse Its arrests have doubled, its budget has tripled, its illegalities have multiplied.

The Sanders-Trump Plan for an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund: Don’t Buy It

UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levelsExperts warn that some marine species are at risk of ‘mass mortality events’ in ever-warming oceans

Big Oil’s £100,000,000,000s’ Con: George Moniboit: The Great Carbon Capture Con: Behold the Wasted Billions Burnham Could Claw BackThere are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The government could cancel its deranged, disastrous carbon capture and storage (CCS) programme at no cost to public welfare: in fact, it would greatly reduce the harm we will suffer. Sorry, did I say £21.7bn? That’s the figure the government has been putting in its press releases for spending on this programme between now and 2050. But this covers only the first phase of the project. The climate experts Dr Andrew Boswell and Simon Oldridge worked through the data produced by the government’s Climate Change Committee, which was scattered across different spreadsheets, and discovered that the projected cost of the full CCS programme between now and 2050 is £264bn.

Ocean warming, marine heatwaves and sea-level rise pose increasing risk in South-West Pacific region SINGAPORE/GENEVA, 7 July 2026 (WMO) – The vast ocean expanse in the South-West Pacific is becoming hotter and more acidic, harming local economies and marine ecosystems, whilst rising sea levels threaten vulnerable coastal communities and low-lying island nations, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Key messages

2025 was the 2nd warmest year on record for the South-West Pacific region
Marine heatwaves disrupted ecosystems and fisheries
Indonesia’s last tropical glacier is just 2% of its 1988 size, may disappear in 2026
Rare tropical cyclone killed more than 1,200 people in Indonesia and Malaysia
Early warnings and early action save lives, but critical coordination and capacity gaps remain

New York sues 3M, DuPont and others over ‘forever chemicals’ in consumer goodsState says companies hid environmental and health risks of Pfas for decades even as they began phasing them out

Wyoming tightens wastewater rules after Meta datacenter contractor flushed contaminated water Meta said it was working with officials to be a ‘good neighbor’ and drinking water supplies were not affected