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Dear Friend, Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people—including many of my colleagues at the Institute for Policy Studies and more than a few FPIF contributors—descended on New York for the record-setting People’s Climate March. Don’t miss Janet Redman’s searing indictment of the polluters who also came to town this week—it’ll drive you nuts when you hear why. The march was an unprecedented mobilization against fossil fuels. But solving the climate crisis will require much more than changing the kinds of fuels we use, as John Feffer points out in his World Beat column this week. Modern farming is also a huge contributor to global emissions. Meanwhile, Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde reports on the ongoing struggle to keep corporate polluters out of environmental policy, this time in the poor Central American country of El Salvador. Also this week at FPIF, Joeva Rock takes the Obama administration to task for its militarized response to the Ebola crisis, J.J. Suh shines a light on the Korean government’s harassment of the families who lost loved ones in the Sewol wreck, and Zoe Pearson and Thomas Grisaffi explain Bolivia’s unique approach to drug policy (and why Washington hates it.) Finally, as the climate warms, Obama has started a fire in Syria. The administration's new war is unmistakably illegal, as my colleague Phyllis Bennis explains. And as I told Fliparc in an interview this week, “the Obama administration has been just as willing to go to war without UN authorization as the Bush administration was.” We’ll have more to come on ISIS and the Syria crisis in the coming days. Stay tuned. Peter Certo Editor, Foreign Policy In Focus