In recent years, Russia has been accused of forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children into Russian territory. It deprives Ukraine of its future generations, undermines national cohesion, and potentially violates international law. The systematic abduction and indoctrination of Ukrainian children could weaken Ukraine’s cultural continuity, while the trauma inflicted on these children will reverberate for generations.
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In my latest podcast episode, Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer, speaks about some of the unexpected events fueling climate change. As he notes, the fossil fuels powering fleets of tanks, aircrafts, and boats used in wars in Africa, the Middle East, and Ukraine, are all having tremendous, adverse effects on the climate.
Listen to this and more in my latest episode; link in bio. Podcast episodes are also available on all major podcasting apps.
America’s treatment of immigrants is a moral catastrophe. Families fleeing violence and persecution are seized, caged, and pushed out to countries where torture, rape, and political repression are routine, often with only the barest pretense of due process. This is not border “enforcement”; it is deliberate cruelty used as a political weapon. It has already stained America’s name before the world and shredded any claim to moral leadership.
Today’s podcast guest is Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer who has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities. He worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies.
In this episode, we discuss the current political juncture of the climate change discussion in the United States, what countries are doing globally to combat climate change, the societal, health, and human rights impacts of climate change, and what actions everyday people can do to help combat climate change.
Listen now; link in bio.
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Evaggelos Vallianatos is a historian, environmental strategist, and writer. He has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities, including Humboldt State University, the University of New Orleans, Bard College, American University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, Pitzer College, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Vallianatos worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies. His experience led him to write the book Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (2014, co-authored with McKay Jenkins), which highlights how the environmental watchdog agency became a “polluter’s protection agency.”
Vallianatos is the author of hundreds of articles on Greek history and the environment, and six books, including Poison Spring. He has a BA in Zoology and MA in medieval Greek history from the University of Illinois, and received a PhD in European and Greek history from the University of Wisconsin.
In recent years, Russia has been accused of forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children into Russian territory. It deprives Ukraine of its future generations, undermines national cohesion, and potentially violates international law. The systematic abduction and indoctrination of Ukrainian children could weaken Ukraine’s cultural continuity, while the trauma inflicted on these children will reverberate for generations.
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Trump’s Iran war has left the Gulf shattered: US bases turned into targets, economies battered, and the “oasis” myth destroyed. Gulf rulers now confront a harsh reckoning over their reliance on Washington and the uncertain search for a new, fragile security order
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In occupied Enerhodar, testimony points to at least seven torture sites targeting staff of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. According to Truth Hounds, dozens of employees are detained and pressured, alongside Rosatom officials, to sign contracts with Russia. Despite the risks, 2,500 workers have refused, including licensed reactor operators now hiding. Russia’s attempts to seize control of the plant and reconnect it to its grid raise serious nuclear safety concerns. Across occupied territories, civilians face coercion, surveillance, and denial of basic services unless they submit.
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The European Union’s highest court has ruled that Hungary’s 2021 anti-LGBTQ law violates EU law, delivering what many observers, cited in coverage including ABC News, have described as a landmark decision. Hungary’s legislation restricted access to content deemed to “promote homosexuality” to minors, leading to bans on books, films, and public expression. In practice, it blurred the line between safeguarding children and stigmatizing an entire community. The court’s decision is not only about Hungary. It signals that within the European Union, fundamental rights are not optional and that member states cannot redefine them through discriminatory political narratives.
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Because EU just loves the Jew faggotry
And Hungary is going to say FUCK YOU to the EU.
Is it the eus country.......no Do unelected cunts have a say......no. This is why the uk left because unelected cunts tried telling us what we can and cant do in our own country
