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Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe tells potential successors to stop infighting

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Friday 11 December 2015, The Guardian  President tells rival factions in Zanu-PF their ambition to follow in his footsteps ‘should not divide the people’ Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe speaks at the Forum on Africa earlier this month. Photograph: Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty Images Agence France-Presse in Victoria Falls Robert … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe tells potential successors to stop infighting

Climate Accord Is a Healing Step, if Not a Cure

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Justin Gillis, 12 Dec. 2015, The New York Times LE BOURGET, France — After the stomping and cheering died down, and the hugs and toasts ended, a question hung in the air as the climate conference came to a close: What does the new deal really mean for the future of the Earth? Scientists who closely monitored the talks here said it was not the agreement that humanity … [Read more...] about Climate Accord Is a Healing Step, if Not a Cure

Bad Cops, Good Cops

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Margaret Talbot, December 21, 2015 Issue, The New Yorker In early November, 2014, Craig Futterman, a law professor at the University of Chicago, got a call from someone who worked in law enforcement in that city. The caller told Futterman about a squad-car dashboard-camera video from a few weeks earlier, which showed a police officer shooting to death a seventeen-year-old … [Read more...] about Bad Cops, Good Cops

Breaking: World Leaders Just Agreed to a Landmark Deal to Fight Global Warming

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Tim McDonnell and James West | Sat 12 Dec. 2015 | Mother Jones Will the Paris Agreement be enough? There was relief and celebration in Paris Saturday evening, as officials from more than 190 countries swept aside monumental differences and agreed to an unprecedented global deal to tackle climate change. The historic accord, known as the Paris … [Read more...] about Breaking: World Leaders Just Agreed to a Landmark Deal to Fight Global Warming

Global Climate Change Talks Achieve Far-Ranging Accord

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Bill Allison, 12 December 2015, Foreign Policy More than 190 countries struck an agreement Saturday in Paris for an ambitious plan to lower greenhouse gas emissions and, in turn, keep global temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius appeared at the final session Saturday, a day after extending the talks to cement … [Read more...] about Global Climate Change Talks Achieve Far-Ranging Accord

Historic New Climate Deal: Surprises, Snubs, and What it Really Means

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Craig Weltch, 12 December 2015, National Geographic  The world’s countries have agreed to initiate a momentous shift away from fossil fuels. Who are the winners and losers? What are the surprises? And what does it all mean? The world came together. More than 20 years after world leaders first tried hammering out an accord to tackle climate change, … [Read more...] about Historic New Climate Deal: Surprises, Snubs, and What it Really Means

The blessing and curse of a liberation movement

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Sam Mkokeli, 11 December 2015, Business Day I AM captivated by the African National Congress (ANC), the great movement that led us out of apartheid bondage. I have recently invested time and money trying to understand this beast. I have read books on its history — there are a lot of good ones. I continue to speak to people mentioned in the books. I am … [Read more...] about The blessing and curse of a liberation movement

Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change

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Caleb S. Rossiter:  Western policies seem more interested in carbon-dioxide levels than in life expectancy.  Every year environmental groups celebrate a night when institutions in developed countries (including my own university) turn off their lights as a protest against fossil fuels. They say their goal is to get America and Europe to look from space like … [Read more...] about Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change