Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has lost a multi-million dollar defamation trial in Australia - the Australian SAS, much like its British and American counterparts, often behave like unaccountable gangs Roberts-Smith is alleged to have kicked a prisoner off a cliff, and killed an old man found hiding in a compound - the man's prosthetic leg was then turned into a drinking vessel at the regimental bar

Global North countries are still standing in the way of a loss and damage fund as Global South countries bear the brunt of the climate crisis in the form of extreme weather

Mulitlateral development banks provide climate finance that functions as neocolonialism The function of the World Bank Group is said to be international development - a byword for keeping Global South nations in cycles of debt, and thus unable to maintain their own resources and wealth

Erdoğan has been in power for over 20 years and with his latest election win, it will likely be more repression as usual

Erdoğan has been an expansionist militarist and has consistently ramped up militarist rhetoric Erdoğan's hallmark is the conservative populist card - he's blamed LGBTQ+ people for covid, is an outspoken misogynist, and several of his election campaign statements were homophobic

11 year old Aderrien Murry was shot in the chest by a police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call - his lung collapsed, and he was left with fractured ribs and a lacerated liver

Aderrien's mum said he kept asking "Why did he shoot me? What did I do wrong?" The officer who shot Aderrien is also Black - and it's worth repeating here that policing as a system is inherently anti-Black

Black officers are not immune from the logic of white supremacy that underpins policing, merely by way of being Black themselves

Finbar Cafferkey, Dmytro Petrov, and Cooper Andrews were not Nazis - they were committed anti-fascists who spent their lives struggling against authoritarianism These claims appear to be circulating based on two Facebook posts - our editorial standards are much higher, and we don’t base our analysis on random social media posts

Our team has noticed over the past year or so that when we cover global politics, particularly in relation to Turkey, Ukraine, and Russia, our coverage often elicits comments from self-proclaimed anti-imperialists. We’d like to respond and make our position clear These claims centre around the apparent belief from a group of people that all our coverage of international politics should be doggedly anti-US with no exceptions. They believe such a position to be inherently anti-imperialist.

a military tech firm supplying war robots to #Ukraine, that has ties to the MoD, and whose biggest shareholder is a Tory donor who gave £1m to Boris Johnson, is about to support a US-NATO military exercise in #Scotland you say...? surely this is some kind of mistake...? well no, no mistake - it's just the global arms industry and its lapdogs in government functioning as they always do - killing people for profit (except in #Ukraine it's not majority Black or Brown people they're killing for a change)

A number of nations are meeting soon to negotiate a global treaty on the use of plastics and a UN environment programme has released a report on "turning off the tap" on the use of plastics

However, the report doesn't go far enough The report mentions the reuse, remanufacture, and recycling of plastics and in doing so ignores the core of the issue: a circular economy that keeps plastic use going is a catastrophe for the planet and a win for oil and gas companies

Palestinian Abu Zubaydah was tortured at black sites for years before being detained in Guantanamo Bay for decades - now his drawings that show abuse and torture at the hands of the CIA and FBI form part of a new report into torture from US agencies Professor Mark Denbeaux said:

"Abu Zubaydah is the poster child for America’s torture program

He was the first person to be tortured, having been approved by the Department of Justice based on facts that the CIA knew to be false."

Elections are being held in Turkey today. They could unseat Erdoğan's dictatorial government. A member of @TheCanaryUK has joined the election monitoring in Bakur. We'll be giving updates throughout the day in this thread #TurkeyElections

The stakes here are high. 10k people… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Erdoğan has imprisoned 6000 people from the HDP since 2015, and replaced elected HDP mayors with state appointed governors. The Turkish state began moves to criminalise the HDP before the election, so the movement formed the Green Left Party to contest the elections @HDP_Europe

As we’re all having this conversation out loud now, here are six ways racism shows up routinely in my life. You can watch out for this behaviour in yourself and those around you: 1/13 1. I get mistaken for an employee in transport hubs, hotels, at special occasions etc. I actually have to think about what I wear, with that in mind. And the tone people use when they think they’re speaking to “the help” isn’t cool. 2/13