[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.

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[Link] 50 Years Ago Today, Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers Helped End the Vietnam War

Read: 14/6/2021 jacobinmag.com

The first installment of reporting based on the Pentagon Papers was published half a century ago today in the New York Times. Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg risked life imprisonment to expose the lies and brutality that the US war on Vietnam was based on.

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