Burning oil facilities threaten health of millions
The ongoing aerial war against Iran is creating a toxic legacy that will threaten the near, medium, and long-term health of millions, if not tens of millions of people across the region. The destruction of facilities containing combustible carbon-based fuels is creating a far-reaching envirnomental and human health catastrophe, which will play out for decades…
How local policy can support climate-smart trade
Meeting needs at the human scale creates opportunities for serving people across regions and internationally. Trade is the domain of national governments. In the European Union, it is largely treated as a supranational policy space. In the US, there is mainstream disagreement over whether Congress or the Executive branch leads in coordinating trade and tariffs,…
Environmental safety informed by science is a human right
The Rescue Party aims to establish a movement of ordinary people and aligned public servants, from across the political spectrum, who will work together to restore sanity and decency to our civic space, who will oppose all forms of corruption and abuses of power, using our rights and freedoms to fulfill the ethical duty to…
If people can be ‘illegal’, no one is free
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ‘Unalienable’ means a human being cannot be separated from their humanity,…
Insist
We are told these days to believe that rights are not universal, that they are not unalienable, that they can be selectively erased by the whims of people who wish to wield power without restraint. Some of these assertions are subtle, like the Speaker…
Information integrity is an economic & security imperative
There is a reason all moral and religious traditions treat lying as an offense, even a sin which warrants divine punishment. Providing people with false information has real impacts on their ability to navigate the world. Falsehoods can break trust, ruin relationships, mislead people…
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