Over the past few days, protesters had camped in front of army headquarters, urging soldiers to join the months-long protests. (Peoples Dispatch) Omar al-Bashir, who was president of Sudan for nearly 30 years, has been ...
The rifle parts cost about $1,500. The assembled firearms sold for as much as $12,000 in Paraguay and $20,000 in Brazil. (By Josefina Salomón, InSight Crime) Arms traffickers in Argentina bought US AR-15 rifle parts, ...
A battle over the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico Policy” is being played out in the court system. The Trump administration pushed an emergency stay motion through to the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th district ...
“Saeed, the president’s brother, is the ruler of our country. He is ruling behind the curtain, we won’t let this happen and the army is with us, we want now a radical change.” Tens of ...
“I struggled to recall any single gunshot wounds. In every case they spoke of multiple injuries, multiple, debilitating injuries that deemed it impossible for them to recover in days, let alone weeks.” On April 11 ...
Both the private and public sector are competing in a new 21st-century space race, but will space just become the next militarized zone? From President Trump telling NASA to revisit the moon by 2024, to ...
U.S. tax laws are mired in the past. They reinforce the social and economic marginalization of women, racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, members of the LGBTQ community, immigrants and people with disabilities. (By Anthony ...
The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation on tax filing Thursday that would prohibit the IRS from creating a free tax preparation service. The IRS has the information necessary to file the vast majority of ...
“For decades, African-American churches have served as the epicenter of survival and a symbol of hope for many in the African-American community. As a consequence, these houses of faith have historically been the targets of ...
Assange’s lawyer called his arrest a “dangerous precedent” where any journalist could face U.S. charges for “publishing truthful information about the United States.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Thursday morning at the Ecuadorian Embassy ...
Feds bring alleged widespread Medicare fraud, Operation Brace Yourself, into court. Federal prosecutors charged 24 people including doctors and owners of medical equipment companies in a $1.2 billion scam on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The ...
“It’s not just a regular superhero movie,” said actor Asher Angel. “We talk about a lot of things that are happening in our world today.” Actor Zachary Levi is honored to be in the “first ...
A report in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine states that alcohol abuse costs the United States a whopping $249 billion in 2010 alone. America’s epidemic of opioid abuse and the increasing problem of methamphetamine ...
Kevin McAleenan seems to have the support of many congressional Democrats, and the experience in immigration law enforcement that has earned him respect throughout the department. Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen ...
“The rightist government of Netanyahu has two main choices: either to relieve the Gaza blockade in return for complete calm by the resistance factions in Gaza or to go for war.” Palestinians in the Gaza ...
“This legislation deals with false statements of facts. It doesn’t deal with opinions, it doesn’t deal with viewpoints. You can have whatever viewpoints however reasonable or unreasonable….” Singapore introduced a drastic anti-fake news bill on ...
While Netanyahu and his Likud party tied with the opposition Blue and White party, right-wing parties outperformed left-wing parties in the Israeli election meaning a conservative government is likely to form. “It’s looking bleak but ...
By keeping all of the plant components, whole plant hemp extract benefits from the synergistic properties between the components. The potential benefits of CBD are a prominent topic of research and discussion. As we explain ...
“It was really a matter of lobbyists scratching each other’s backs. ‘We’ll throw a pile of coal money at trying to destroy Bears Ears, if you grazing chaps will throw some cow money at our ...
"The indicators already show that we’re falling apart. America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years."
Officials are still struggling to find any links or leads between three black churches that burned in one week in the same Louisiana Parish. In a south Louisiana parish, three predominantly black churches have burned ...
“Strikes me as just a frustration of not being able to solve a problem. Honestly, it wasn’t Secretary Nielsen’s fault.” In the past four days, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson resigned, U.S. Secret ...
“After I have begun teaching these kids with the help of the ICRC, I feel much better, as I do something good and help my own family.” Four hundred Palestinian amputees from Gaza who lost ...
“It simply criminalizes abortion. Hopefully, it takes it all the way to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade,” said Teri Collins (R-Decatur) who is sponsoring the new Alabama abortion bill. A new proposed ...
“It’s not about my political opinion. This is about yours. This is a chance for you to talk about issues that matter to you.” Hollywood Actor Chris Evans is getting serious with politics, with plans ...
“My goal is to say to the government, what you’re doing with my tax money, our tax money is not what I want to be happening. So here I am, quivering a little because it ...
Unless the incumbent Turkish political party AKP overturns the recent election results, the opposition is now in command of cities that make up 65% of Turkey’s GDP. Turkey’s local elections on March 31, 2019, resulted ...
“President Trump, I urge you to sign the resolution Congress passed last week ending U.S. support for this conflict. Yemen needs humanitarian aid, not more bombs,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
“If Netanyahu wants to declare Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, then you know he has to face a real problem. We will stay there. The international community has to deal with us.” Last Saturday ...
“They just want the attention on the issue because they don’t want to talk to us about policy.” White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Democrats will never get Trump’s tax returns on Fox ...
Identity is a basic human right. For the 1.7 billion unbanked people globally, this requires direct subsidy of varying levels. (By Matthew Davie) Globally, 1.7 billion adults around the world—that’s nearly one-third of all adults—are ...
With the extreme debt, depression and suicide rates facing the Indian farming community, current Prime Minister Modi’s polling numbers may be slipping heading into the May election. “Our kids are educated, they’re filling out forms, ...
Artificial intelligence technologies are getting advanced enough to be able to approximate individuals’ writing or speaking style, and even facial expressions. (Ana Santos Rutschman, Saint Louis University) When artificial intelligence systems start getting creative, they ...
The media has been hailing the victory of Lori Lightfoot, who is a black woman and openly gay, as a historic moment. However, activists point out that she has a history of working against the ...
If a second referendum comes to pass, the result will again likely be decided by the turnout of younger and older citizens of the UK On Monday, members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ...
“More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion.” Amal Clooney, international rights lawyer and the wife ...
From 1999 to 2018, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA reported 11,992 pipeline ‘incidents,’ with 600 in 2018 alone. The U.S. has an estimated 439,000 miles of unregulated pipelines, enough to circle the ...
Egalitarianism and the striving for equality is one of the most significant and prominent features of Western life. The basic principle of egalitarianism is the belief that all people are equal and deserve equal opportunities ...
The ACLU is looking into reports of abusive treatment of transgender women and gay men at an ICE detention center near Chaparral, New Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) authored a letter released on ...
“If you are a form of infrastructure, you shouldn’t be able to compete with all the businesses dependent on your infrastructure.” Three women, 2020 Democratic hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and 30-year-old ...
MSG91 is launching an SMS messaging service that allows a brand to text in the users native language – a feature that could allay SMS data privacy concerns. In November of last year, Tech Crunch ...
The Women’s Refugee Commission report details the atrocities faced by refugees in camps in Libya, and the brutality of the Libyan Coast Guard, both of which have been financed by the European Union in an ...
“The president will have to face the reality that Congress is no longer going to ignore its constitutional obligations when it comes to foreign policy.” On April 4, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted ...
A Rust Belt progressive in the vein of Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ryan supports programs like “Medicare for all,” yet spoke in favor of the simplifying the tax code. With a rally looming on Saturday in Youngstown, Ohio, Rep. ...
The fracking revolution has led to private equity’s highest allocation of investment in fossil fuels in 20 years, but is it basically a Ponzi scheme? United States natural gas consumption increased 10% in 2018. The ...
2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang joins a diverse group of historic Americans including Richard Nixon, Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman, and Martin Luther King Jr. who all support a universal basic income. The 2020 Democratic candidate ...
The donations highlight the existential stakes for the fossil fuel industry in the debate over the Green New Deal. (Maplight) The average congressional opponent of the Green New Deal has received 24 times more campaign ...
Is Pete Buttigieg the dark horse candidate of 2020? The Democratic 2020 candidate and South Bend, Indiana mayor is attracting more social media interest than any of his rivals. The social media analytics company Newswhip ...
The communal land, invaded by the mining company for constructing the highway, is the private property of the peasants. (Peoples Dispatch) On March 28, leaders of over 38 peasant communities of the Challhuahuacho district of ...
A notable aspect of being an “opinion journalist” is that you can offer a viewpoint or set of arguments without being held to the same standards as objective journalists. By this token, I am such ...
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