Jonathan Cook Substack

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NOTE TO THOSE READING VIA EMAIL: This article may have been truncated by your email client. In which case, please click on the headline to take you directly to the full Substack article. More than 150 years ago, scientists discovered what they termed a “greenhouse effect”, demonstrating for the first time that water vapour and carbon dioxide trapped heat.

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We are on the brink of a series of catastrophes of our own making that humankind will be exceptionally lucky to survive. There is a path ahead, but being able to see it and where it leads will require – at least from most westerners – a difficult feat of imagination. It will need us to cast aside many of the things we have been taught to most closely identify with. It will demand of us a realisation that our most cherished values are actually harmful. That is a tall order, indeed.

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The most important question we should be asking after Karim Khan’s dismissal last week as chief prosecutor of the ICC – the international war crimes court in The Hague – is not whether he is guilty of “sexual misconduct” against another staff member, identified as “Sarah”. That can only be decided through a legal process – one, let us note, that has already taken place.

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NOTE TO THOSE READING VIA EMAIL: This article may have been truncated by your email client. In which case, please click on the headline to take you directly to the full Substack article. When is it possible to declare that a society has moved from liberal democracy, however imperfectly realised, to authoritarian rule? Is there a moment when it is suddenly obvious the change has occurred? Does authoritarianism announce its arrival?

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If I asked you to cut off your arm, would you do it? What if I pointed out that that your arm regularly punched a neighbour in the face so violently that it broke their nose and teeth, and left them unconscious? Would you cut your arm off then?