It’s worth questioning the moral authority of predominantly Christian Nations like the USA that condemn repression by States of the Muslim world, while employing aggressive policing, surveillance, sexist norms or legislations, and coercive policies domestically or internationally.

Liberty-washing: the practice of selectively invoking the language of liberty, democratic restoration, or rule of law to legitimize coercive foreign action, while disregarding sovereignty, international legal constraints, or comparable liberties at home.

Belém — At COP30, the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon arrived first, before the heads of state, before the buttoned-up delegations, before the promises of energy transition that often end in transcripts of speeches in inboxes.

This was the chant at the protest in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday, on the 31st of October.

The debate around ABBA Voyage is less about whether artificial intelligence was technically used, and more about who gets to define the cultural meaning of these tools—the artists on stage, or the companies designing the chips that process their digital likeness.

“By protecting turtles, we are, in fact, defending the possibility of a healthy future for all, where nature can exist in balance.”

From Rhyd Wildermuth: " I'm not the sort of person the police or military exist to protect...why let them murder in my name?"

The process of attaching Value to money, wages or financial transactions is normalized under the guise of logic, science, and truth. When, in reality, it’s a barbaric, savage or superstitious thing to do.

For the Brits, whose form of exercise was laboring, digging holes, “playing with weapons” and so on, India must have been quite a sight.

It’s easy to subscribe to business gurus and generic finance tips that don’t address the fundamental question of how to achieve an authentic and fulfilling existence in this world.

G&R’s community of readers and writers is diverse – we are all over the world and hold a wide range of spiritual practices. But if there is one belief that may unite us all, it’s Animism.

Pressured speech is a term used in psychiatry to describe one symptom of a manic episode of Bipolar Disorder, Autism, ADHD, BPD and more. It’s when a person speaks with a sense of urgency, without pauses and often incoherently.

Magnificent monuments, pyramids, architecture, crafted forests, agricultural and medicinal technologies, possibly 100 million people scattered across some 40 million square kilometers of land are all placed in the shadow of this one man. This is too unrealistic to be scientific.

The biggest obstacles to women in the poker world are: “having the money to play and the confidence in their ability to win.”

Leptospirosis is a disease caused by the failure of basic sanitation services, the overcrowding of municipalities in favor of the real estate market, and by inhuman levels of social inequality.

How we handle the technological changes of our era, and our ability to keep up with them, defines whether innovation symbolizes the advancement or detriment of society.

Distinguishing opinion from misinformation requires critical analysis from everyone, not just legal professionals or employees of tech companies.

Oppression takes many forms, and there is little use in ranking them. But it is possible that something we see every day looks less oppressive than something we almost never see in real life. There is oppression that becomes normalized, and we mistake that for it being “less oppressive”.

Ocean pollution threatens the survival of all marine animals, and ours too. It’s difficult to understand the magnitude of the impact that litter has on our lives when we don’t see where it’s going, and how the path that leads to the extinction of so many aquatic species affects human life.

The city's microclimates alienate animals and plants. But with a reconfiguration of belief systems about what city life can or should be, creating urban microclimates that invite animals and plants to thrive is feasible.