Showing posts with label The Guardian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Guardian. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2026

The rebranding of ‘Lake America’ is Trump’s desperate attempt to distract us. Ignore Iran, the Epstein files, and your wallet – not to mention Trump’s plummeting approval ratings

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Arwa Mahdawi   As well as being a distraction, this pathetic maneuver is supposed to be a middle finger to Canada.’ Photograph: Al Drago/Po...

"In Gaza, Palestinian journalists filming on their phones have provided an indispensable record of a war foreign reporters have largely been prevented from entering. There, picking up a camera is an act of extraordinary courage." Phoebe Greenwood

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A man takes pictures of demolished houses in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2023. Photograph: Mussa Issa Qawasma/Reuters Sunse...
Monday, August 24, 2026

The Guardian cartoonist Ella Baron on AI (artificial intelligence) and the drought

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Guardian Opinion  cartoon   AI (artificial intelligence) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/23/ella-baron-on-ai-and-...

"Meanwhile, with his unwinnable war in the Middle East, capricious tariff regime and penchant for self-enrichment on an epic scale, Trump is turning the US into an increasingly unpredictable player in the global economy. Instead of the guarantor of rules-based markets and open global trade routes, the US has become a source of uncertainty and chaos." Heather Stewart in The Guardian

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Economics viewpoint   US economy   Jumpy bond markets make it clear: Trump risks driving US into debt crisis Treasury secretary Scott Bessen...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Israel launches an ‘investigation’ into killing of Hind Rajab

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In January 2024, 335 bullets were fired into a car containing five-year-old Hind and six of her family members in Gaza. When paramedics c...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

"And whatever shape the first major AI-related disaster takes, it won’t impact all countries, companies and people equally. It therefore seems unlikely that just one disaster will be enough to bring us humans to our senses, acting together to control the superhuman power we are creating. I really hate to say this, but … an AI Hiroshima? We should be so lucky." Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian

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Illustration: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I ...

Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine. In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban

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The diplomats’ letter states: ‘Nothing justifies Israel’s systematic policy of destruction of Gaza and its population.’ Photograph: Mahmoud ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return. Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible

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Rivers in the Sinjar region have dried up as rainfall has become more erratic and temperatures have risen The village of Faka in Sinjar was ...