Opinion: My relative fought for the Confederacy. Why was a military base named in his honor? K. Denise Rucker Krepp’s Confederate forebear had an Army base named in his honor. She played a role in getting it changed. 04/28/2024 - 11:59 pm | View Link
Government offices close as three Southern states memorialize Confederacy Despite the ongoing national reckoning over Confederate statues and symbols, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina are nonetheless closing state offices this year in observance of Confederate ... 04/26/2024 - 6:35 am | View Link
Friday is Confederate Memorial Day. Why does Florida still celebrate it and what does it mean? Florida does not seem to want to let go of its Confederate heritage. On Friday, April 26, the state of Florida officially honors the Floridians who took up arms in the Confederate battle against the ... 04/26/2024 - 4:04 am | View Link
Brighton photog aims to educate on dark history of Confederate monuments With the Guggenheim Fellowship, Diaz will embark on the next phrase of the project, returning to each site he's photographed and reshooting locations where the statues have been removed. 04/22/2024 - 10:09 pm | View Link
Brighton photog aims to educate on dark history of Confederate monuments I think it's pretty clearly understood now by most historians that they went up as a way of intimidating African-Americans and sending (a) message." ... 04/22/2024 - 9:09 pm | View Link
Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Removed In 2020, Report Says ... A report released Tuesday found that 168 Confederate symbols were removed across the United States in 2020, virtually all of them following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police... 04/28/2024 - 3:26 pm | View Website
How a National Movement Toppled Hundreds of Confederate Symbols More than a dozen memorials were addressed after a white supremacist who posed with a Confederate battle flag killed nine worshipers in a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015; two years later, even... 04/28/2024 - 2:00 pm | View Website
These Confederate statues were removed. But where did they go? By Erik Ortiz. After the death of George Floyd in late May, more than 130 Confederate statues and tributes to divisive historical figures have come down in a flurry of protests, acts of vandalism... 04/28/2024 - 6:01 am | View Website
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials According to The Washington Post, five Confederate monuments were removed after the Civil War, eight in the two years after the Charleston shooting, 48 in the three years after the Unite the Right rally, and 110 in the two years after George Floyd's murder. 04/27/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Website
73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed last year ... After 73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021, there are now 723 left in the US, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The findings were announced Tuesday during the... 04/27/2024 - 4:18 pm | View Website
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Donald Trump thinks that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been “rightfully” criticized for failing to stop Hamas’s murder of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 and says there are “some very good people” who could take Netanyahu’s job.
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In a wide-ranging interview with TIME, Trump was sharply critical of Netanyahu, a close ally during the former President’s term.
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A new tax on fossil fuel companies based in the world’s richest countries could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help the most vulnerable nations cope with the escalating climate crisis, according to a report.
The Climate Damages Tax report, published on Monday, calculates that an additional tax on fossil fuel majors based in the wealthiest Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries could raise $720 billion by the end of the decade.
The authors say a new extraction levy could boost the loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries cope with the worst effects of climate breakdown that was agreed at the Cop28 summit in Dubai—a hard-won victory by developing countries that they hope will signal a commitment by developed, polluting nations to provide financial support for some of the destruction already under way.
This tax would unlock “billions of funding for those at the sharp end of the climate crisis” and expedite a “transition away from fossil fuels.”
David Hillman, the director of the Stamp Out Poverty campaign and co-author of the report, said it “demonstrates that the richest, most economically powerful countries, with the greatest historical responsibility for climate change, need look no further than their fossil fuel industries to collect tens of billions a year in extra income by taxing them far more rigorously.
Below are five video game recommendations from the journalist, comic-book writer, and video game narrative designer Evan Narcisse, with commentary in his own words. Read more about Narcisse and his worldview in Jamal Michel’s Mother Jones profile, “One Man’s Mission to Make Video Games a Little Less White.”
United Game Artists/Sega
Rez
United Game Artists (2002)
In this musical “rail shooter,” a hacker infiltrates a dysfunctional AI: “Throws deep existential questions at the player while immersing them in a thumping kaleidoscope experience inspired by raves and synesthesia.”
Starbreeze Studios/505 Games
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Starbreeze Studios (2013)
Siblings Naiee and Naia set out to save their sick father by collecting water from the Tree of Life: “A short little fairytale gem that perfectly demonstrates the expressive power that pressing a button can yield.”
Ubisoft
Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
Ubisoft (2014)
A formerly enslaved African pirate joins Maroon freedom fighters to battle slavers in 1730s Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola): “This one really resonates with me deeply because it uses Black diasporic history and characters speaking the Kreyòl dialect I heard growing up to show the injustice that sparked the Haitian Revolution.”
Supergiant Games
Hades
Supergiant Games (2020)
Zagreus tries to bail on Hades and make it to Mt.