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.
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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…
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December 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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.
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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
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
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
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
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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
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...
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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...
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
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...
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...
Trump suing BBC for $1 billion
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Trump suing BBC for $1 billion
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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.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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.
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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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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
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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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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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.
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
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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
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.
These are rules, not discretionary gestures towards openness.
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
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
Representatives of Anchuar tribe in Ecuador join celebs fighting sake of Amazon to oil companies- which HAPPENING!
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Representatives of Anchuar tribe in Ecuador join celebs fighting sake of Amazon to oil companies- which HAPPENING!
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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…
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September 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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.
@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
@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.
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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
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.”
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There is no going back. There is no going forward, either, when the path is giving way under your feet.
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Between Two Worlds
Preparing for the worst while hoping for the best
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August 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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...
www.planetcritical.com/p/between-tw...
There is no going back
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There is no going back
Learning from Elders in Australia's remotest region
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August 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
There is no going back
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From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
@bbcnewsuk.bsky.social Olga Henderson was a fantastic interviewee in great package about British interred in Singapore
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
@bbcnewsuk.bsky.social Olga Henderson was a fantastic interviewee in great package about British interred in Singapore
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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 👇
Radioactive water released from nuclear bomb base into sea near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog - @robedwards5.bsky.social @severincarrell.bsky.social exclusive 👇🏴🐟🌊
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show
Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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 👇
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🔴 NEW: Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal.
Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...
Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...
August 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🔴 NEW: Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal.
Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...
Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...
@c4news.bsky.social Minister Steven Reed lied about Scottish water pollution being worse than England. See Raymond Buchanan has facts
July 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
@c4news.bsky.social Minister Steven Reed lied about Scottish water pollution being worse than England. See Raymond Buchanan has facts
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Yesterday we published our investigation into torture & death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna.
Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured
Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious.
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yesterday we published our investigation into torture & death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna.
Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Musk doesn't want us informed.
Researcher and software engineer, Molly White, on why Musk is dismantling public services.
Full episode out now at: www.planetcritical.com/p/molly-white
Researcher and software engineer, Molly White, on why Musk is dismantling public services.
Full episode out now at: www.planetcritical.com/p/molly-white
April 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM