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Until multinational corporations are held accountable for their crimes, illegal logging will continue to devastate forests, threaten indigenous people, and make overcoming the climate crisis ever more difficult.

Both grand corruption and the climate crisis demand an international sea-change, and we will not be able to solve one without addressing the other.

Australian leaders are caught between competing sirens. It is in neither China’s nor the United States’ best interests to make Australia choose — and, for Australia, perhaps the best choice is neither.

In a distinctly ironic and deeply tragic parallelism, despotic regimes are instrumentalising George Floyd’s death to hold a mirror to a Janus-faced America –  an America whose avowed principles of justice and liberty have fallen afoul of their victims both abroad and at home.

Despite human rights violations against indigenous and disenfranchised communities, the courts of previously imperial powers still tend to favor corporate interests, much to the disrespect and neglect of indigenous ontologies.

Sometimes it is the tiniest spark that lights the largest fires.

The COVID-19 pandemic will not be contained without international solidarity and coordination, but not all high-level cooperation is productive — in fact, the politicization of some responses has critically compromised them. A particularly high-stakes example of this trend is the distortion of the personal protective equipment (PPE) supply chain in recent months. As demand continues to outpace supply, manufacturers are primarily offering PPE to their allies, states are taking hazardous shortcuts to produce and procure it, and some governments are being forced to choose between the wishes of their allies and the safety of their constituents.

Unfortunately, during this pandemic, the “benevolent neglect” of Canadians is wearing increasingly thin.

As the novel coronavirus spread through Europe, heads of government quickly began to close their national borders in an attempt to reduce movement and the spread of the disease. These hasty measures threatened one of the fundamental tenets of the European Union: the freedom of movement, and the Schengen Zone, which guarantees visa and border-free travel in 26 states.