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New US watchdog briefing tracks Trump’s crisis, week by week
A weekly US news round-up produced with The Nation magazine is trying to make sense of an administration built to overwhelm. Left Field thinks it’s worth your time subscribing to it.
Heat plans won’t save us while fossil fuels stay untouched
Governments are rolling out heat-health plans and cooling centres as Europe burns. What they’re still avoiding is the fossil-fuel expansion driving the crisis in the first place, says Rob Dyer.
Allez les Bleus, Allez la Gauche: Mélenchon’s France shirt is a masterstroke
La France Insoumise is selling France 2027 campaign shirts disguised as World Cup kits, proving that the left can do populism just as well as the right, if it's bold enough to try.
Trust in news collapses to record low over biased coverage
A new Reuters Institute report reveals global trust in news has fallen to its lowest point in over a decade. It’s the direct result of mainstream outlets peddling false balance and biased coverage on Gaza, Ukraine and migration – and it's exactly why Left Field exists.
No longer someone else’s problem: Europe burns while governments rearm
As wildfires rage north of Madrid and across south-west France and around 300,000 people are evacuated, the climate emergency has stopped being a distant headline and become a European reality.
NATO plotted war in Ankara while the heat kills tens of thousands at home
As NATO leaders gathered in Ankara to plan for war with Russia, tens of thousands are already dying from extreme heat across Europe.
Tens of thousands march in Brussels against austerity and cuts
Belgian workers are on the streets again demonstrating against public spending cuts and austerity measures being imposed by the governing coalition.
On Iran, don’t trust the experts
As governments and media alike defer to so-called ‘experts’, a widely distorted version of the current conflict and alternatives to war is being created.