Susan Donald
setedonald.bsky.social
Susan Donald
@setedonald.bsky.social
Lifetime of journalism, watching corruption in all parts of our lives getting worse as we ignore dying throes of our planet and the rich getting richer.
So Trump saying most countries would not exist without USA, defence and economy supporting them. So without USA running NATO, disaster…. And that’s what will happen if they do not get Greenland
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Something a little different from me today, but racing around my mind all weekend.

www.planetcritical.com/europe-must-...
To Defeat Trump, Europe Must Abandon Its Aryan Dream
The European elite who believe Trump in power is Whiteness in power fail to recognise just how little the New World cares about them.
www.planetcritical.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Go and see the movie HAMNET; a classic and emotional rollercoaster of a film Jessie Buckley should win BAFTA and Oscar. Great script,
January 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Are American warplanes that have landed in UK on their way to Iran!
January 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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In southern Ecuador’s Achuar territory, 62 km of new roads opened since 2022 have driven forest loss and illegal logging, community conflict, and the killing of two Indigenous people — exposing deep tensions over development and protection.
All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory
Between March and May 2025, at least eight children from the Achuar Indigenous community died of leptospirosis in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. The disease is preventable with access to safe…
news.mongabay.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Congratulations to Glòria Pallarès on winning the ACE Award 🏆

Her Mongabay investigation exposed corrupt forest finance schemes affecting 9.5M+ hectares of Indigenous land — and helped communities reclaim their rights.

Read the full investigation: buff.ly/W7RQrKp
Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès wins top anti-corruption reporting award
Journalist Glòria Pallarès won the Anti-Corruption Excellence (ACE) Award for her investigation into corrupt forest finance schemes published in collaboration with Mongabay. The award ceremony was…
news.mongabay.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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December 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Should You Have Kids?

Choosing whether or not to have children has been a critical component of cultures around the world for millennia, and the choosing not to has always been as important as the choosing to.

Read the full piece now on Planet: Critical: www.planetcritical.com/should-you-h...
Should You Have Kids?
Choosing whether or not to have children has been a critical component of cultures around the world for millennia, and the choosing not to has always been as important as the choosing to.
www.planetcritical.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Trump suing BBC for $1 billion
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase filed a report alerting the U.S. government over $1 billion of potentially suspicious transactions involving him and prominent Wall Street and business figures.
JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures
After Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death, the bank reported more than $1 billion in potentially suspicious transactions.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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MPs are supposed to report potential conflicts of interest between their official duties and private financial affairs.
These are rules, not discretionary gestures towards openness.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user

Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...
Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May
observer.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Parts of AMAZON being sold to oil companies in Ecuador. Anchuar tribe join celebs to protect their ancestral homeland. White colonialists got there only 60 years, now destroying
September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Representatives of Anchuar tribe in Ecuador join celebs fighting sake of Amazon to oil companies- which HAPPENING!
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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More than 100,000 people marched through Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, on Sept. 16, demanding that federal authorities revoke an environmental license for a gold mining project that may impact an important freshwater source.
100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source
More than 100,000 people marched through Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, on Sept. 16, demanding that federal authorities revoke an environmental license for a gold mining project that may impact…
news.mongabay.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Was anyone in the gallery tonight?Faisal’s interview with US Epstein survivor asking her a number of times to make comments about Peter Mandelson who’s she’d never heard of was terrible.
September 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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There is no going back. There is no going forward, either, when the path is giving way under your feet.

www.planetcritical.com/p/between-tw...
Between Two Worlds
Preparing for the worst while hoping for the best
www.planetcritical.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
There is no going back
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There is no going back
Learning from Elders in Australia's remotest region
open.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@bbcnewsuk.bsky.social Olga Henderson was a fantastic interviewee in great package about British interred in Singapore
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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At Coulport nuclear bomb base: “shortfalls in maintenance and asset management that led to the failure of the coupling that indirectly led to the production of unnecessary radioactive waste” - Scottish Environment Protection Agency 👇
August 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM