Environmental activists have applauded a June 26 decision by the Greenlandic government to reject an extension to a controversial exploration license held by Western Australian-based mining company Energy Transition Minerals (ETM). Urani? Naamik (Uranium? No thanks) activists. Photo: Erik Jensen Kuannersuit/Kvanefjeld, in the country's south, contains the second-largest uranium deposit in the world, possibly the largest thorium deposit and the third-largest rare earth deposits. When (…)

Le consensus scientifique établi est que la combustion des combustibles fossiles est à l'origine de la crise climatique, et pourtant les plus grandes compagnies pétrolières mondiales prévoient d'augmenter leur production Les plus grandes compagnies pétrolières prévoient d'augmenter leur production de 14 % en moyenne entre 2024 et 2030, selon les données du Climate Transition Centre de la London School of Economics. Photo : Christian Hartmann/Reuters Alors que le monde souffre d'une (…)

After the Paris Court of Appeal removed the threat of her being ineligible for public office, far-right leader Marine Le Pen went on television news within hours to declare that she would stand in the 2027 presidential election. As Mediapart's Fabrice Arfi notes in this op-ed article, the fact that a senior politician in France has been found guilty twice over in a case involving the misappropriation of public funds is evidently no longer enough to disqualify them. There is a well-known (…)

Libérée de l'inéligibilité par la cour d'appel de Paris, la cheffe de file de l'extrême droite a déclaré sur TF1 être candidate à l'élection présidentielle. En France, la double reconnaissance de culpabilité d'une responsable politique dans une affaire de détournement de fonds publics n'est donc pas synonyme de disqualification. Il y a, en matière de sécurité routière, un phénomène bien connu : l'effet tunnel. Il définit un rétrécissement du champ de la perception en situation de stress, (…)

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has announced she will stand as a candidate in France's presidential election in 2027. Her decision came after the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed her conviction for misappropriating public funds from the European Parliament. In its sentencing the court - which referred to “voters' freedom of choice” - had already left the way open for Le Pen to stand as the Rassemblement National candidate for the election when it reduced a ban on holding public office (…)

American exceptionalism has always had an absurd and self-serving character to it. But any pretense justifying it has collapsed in the face of Donald Trump's cruelty and oligarchic corruption. Two hundred and fifty years since the founding, with Donald Trump in his second term as president, it's impossible to maintain the fiction of “American exceptionalism” that has proven so central to the American project. (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library) It (…)