The Hudak Report 11/26/24
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Featured News
How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees (Grist)
Israeli Strike Wounds Director Of North Gaza’s Main, Barely Operational Hospital (HuffPost)
Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report (Mongabay)
Charlotte airport workers strike at outset of busy Thanksgiving travel week (WCNC)
Other News
Amazon territories: This call for help is one of many that are coming from several Indigenous communities in the Peruvian rainforest that live surrounded by illegal activity. The leader who had the courage to talk is one of the more than 60 journalistic sources interviewed by Mongabay, as part of a year-long investigation that managed to confirm the existence, and the episodes of violence behind the use, of 76 unauthorized airstrips in six Amazonian regions: Ucayali, Huánuco, Pasco, Cusco, Madre de Dios and Loreto. Sixty-seven of them were in the first three regions, where the majority of Indigenous leaders have been killed in the past four years, since the pandemic.
Austria: The far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) achieved a historic victory in Austria’s southeastern state of Styria, securing 35 percent of the vote in Sunday’s regional election. This marks the first time the FPOe has topped the region’s polls, defeating conservative and social-democratic rivals.
Fort Albany: Nearly half a century after the doors to one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools closed, a search for unmarked graves has started at the site.
The search for unmarked graves at St. Anne’s residential school in Fort Albany First Nation began Monday (Nov. 18).
(Read more at The Hamilton Spectator)
Haiti: The number of children being recruited into armed groups in Haiti has increased by 70 per cent over the past year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday. The unprecedented spike also reveals the alarming deterioration of child protection amid escalating violence in the Caribbean nation.
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The situation in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is significantly alarming, with 1.2 million children living under constant threat of armed violence. An estimated 25 percent of all 703,000 internally displaced persons are children, living under dire conditions and exposed to multiple threats.
Pakistan: At least one police officer has been killed and dozens of people injured in Pakistan as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan have clashed with security forces outside the capital, Islamabad, officials and Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party say.
Authorities enforced a security lockdown for the past two days in the country after Khan called for the march on parliament and a sit-in to demand his release.
Philippines: A massive blaze tore through a coastal shantytown in the Philippine capital, scorching makeshift wooden homes and spreading rapidly between the densely packed structures.
The fire destroyed more than 1,000 structures in eight hours in the city’s Tondo district before firefighters extinguished it Sunday, Manila’s disaster management office said. As of Monday, disaster management officials said there were no known casualties.
US Farms: U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.
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Nearly half of the nation’s approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, according to the departments of Labor and Agriculture, as well as many dairy and meatpacking workers.
(Read more at Successful Farming)
USA: Since 2020, states and municipalities across the country have amassed a portfolio of $1.7 billion in Israel Bonds—securities sold by the state of Israel to “strengthen every aspect of Israel's economy, enabling national infrastructure development.” Since October 7th, 2023, $580 million of state and municipal investments have been invested in Israeli bonds.
In some cases, the state treasurers and comptrollers that purchased Israeli bonds are the very same officials who pushed for laws in their states against investing in firms that embrace environmental social governance (ESG), or investments based, at least superficially, on diversity, climate change, or any other criteria they deem “woke.” Their argument: If a firm makes politically motivated investment decisions in accordance with ESG, then the firm has compromised its fiduciary duty to be a good steward of dollars and maximize returns for investors.
What I’m Reading
"No moral equivalence" has no legal relevance in international law
Somaliland and Somalia: Competing narratives in the Horn of Africa
Trump's Cabinet Picks Aren't Looking Good For Peace In Ukraine
Who is Calin Georgescu, Romanian right-wing candidate leading the election?
With nowhere else to go, Sudanese refugees in Lebanon plead for evacuation
