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Western Europe records its hottest June as heat waves surge: EU monitor
Western Europe this year experienced its hottest June on record as a searing heat wave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat extremes, the European Union's climate monitor said Thursday.

In a 2005 interview, the US envoy Edmund McWilliams said he had warned in 1988 that Washington’s Afghan policy was “going very, very badly”, as US weaponry flowed to Islamist fundamentalists. But the overriding objective was defeating the Soviet Union. McWilliams said he was frozen out, smeared as mentally ill, alcoholic and gay, and reassigned. CIA analysts themselves had warned in 1987 that a victorious Islamist regime might inherit a “mountain of weapons” and use them to arm or train Isla…

The west is in freefall – and the worst part is that we were warned, but chose not to listen
Endless pursuit of wealth and power by western leaders led us here. What strikes me most is how many saw what was coming, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Wildfires force more than 200,000 people in France and Spain to flee
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260724-spain-declares-state-of-emergency-and-france-seeks-eu-help-as-wildfires-rage

Spain declares state of emergency and France seeks EU help as wildfires rage
Wildfires fuelled by extreme heat and strong winds swept across western Europe on Friday, forcing thousands to evacuate in France, triggering a state of emergency in Spain's Madrid region and prompting Paris to seek emergency assistance from the European Union.

Call for Papers: AAR Western Region's 2027 Annual Conference "Beyond Boundaries and Silos: Toward Interconnection and Collaboration"
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The British state has recast protest as terrorism.
"the legal definition of terrorism in Britain .. includes [political] 'damage to property'"
"the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), ... is proscribed in Britain. Its Syrian offshoot, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), is not, because PYD-led forces became Western allies in the fight against ISIS (ISIL)."
Just one of the stupid contradictions.
Likewise Hamas's civilians.

The British state has recast protest as terrorism
Britain’s ever-broader terrorism laws are erasing the line between political violence, protest and dissent.