Ty Ferguson

3 weeks ago | barrons.com | Ty Ferguson |Mathiew Leiser |Jorge Uzon

A small community in Canada's conservative-leaning western province of Alberta welcomes US President Donald Trump's talk of annexing Canada as its "51st State", seeing as a path to getting their "freedoms back.” Trump is reviled across much of Canada but in Alberta -- whose economy hinges on oil -- 23 percent of people support the US president, according to a March survey from pollsters Leger.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry |Ty Ferguson

“Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit” —BBC News. This jarring headline, published three days ago, encapsulates the absurdity of modern climate governance. To host the 2025 United Nations Climate Summit (COP30), the Brazilian government has razed approximately 500 hectares of the Amazon rainforest—a carbon sink critical to stabilizing the global climate—to construct roads, a conference complex, and luxury accommodations for delegates.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry |Ty Ferguson

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, Middle Eastern fossil fuel countries, eye-openers that many eco-minded people, still to this day, cannot stomach.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Justice Markandey Katju |Brett Wilkins |Ramzy Baroud |Ty Ferguson

Palestinian Territory – Israel’s decision to cut off all humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip until further notice is deeply concerning. This dangerous escalation exacerbates the ongoing humanitarian crisis and weaponises starvation as a tool of genocide.