The United Nations and the European Union among others are asking Israel to halt plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin community in the West Bank. For nearly a decade, Israeli courts had prevented the government ...
In a landmark ruling on Thursday, India’s supreme court struck down an 1861 law that made homosexual sex punishable by up ten years in prison. In the decision, judges ruled that the law was being used ...
After 18 days of deliberation, on Wednesday the retrial of former Blackwater Security guard Nicholas Slatten for a 2007 shooting which killed 14 Iraqi civilians in a traffic circle ended in a mistrial as jurors ...
(Stop The Drug War) Nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana since 2012, but all of those states have been in the West or the Northeast. This year, with marijuana legalization on ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-partisan environmental and public advocacy organization, published a scathing review of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s environmental legacy as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
Should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice? It doesn’t matter what I think because he will be confirmed regardless of what BS comes out of the media’s mouth. He will be confirmed because ...
They were accused of accessing classified documents that revealed the role of the state in the massacre of the Rohingyas. (NewsClick) Just a week after a United Nations Fact Finding Mission (FFM) recommended an investigation ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A plan announced earlier this month by Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue, to relocate one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) top research office — the Economic Research Service — into the Office of ...
A 21-year-old woman is pushing gender standards in Libya through the development of her app, Yummy, which allows Libyan women to sell home-cooked food “Every cloud has a silver lining,” the saying goes. To testify ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised investments and loans to African nations worth $60 billion as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Xi denies the allegation that the financial support is a debt ...
Incarcerated former Enron boss, Jeffrey Skilling, 64, has been released from prison and to a halfway house at an undisclosed location. Skilling was incarcerated for 12 years for committing corporate fraud amounting to several millions of ...
The Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates (UAE) stated that a bus bombing in Yemen last month that killed 51 (40 of whom were children) could not be justified. Both countries admit a mistake in the attack. ...
A new documentary titled Active Measures aims to chronicle, what it claims is, the “most successful espionage operation in Russian history,” the United States presidential election of 2016. Touted as the first documentary to cover the alleged ...
Premiering this month at film festivals worldwide is documentary feature titled Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, chronicling the triumph and downfall of the late founder of Fox News. The film is directed and produced ...
Last Thursday in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, thousands of far-right demonstrators chanted against the open door policy for refugees introduced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015. The xenophobic riot was sparked by ...
On the 55th anniversary of his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III has urged the Trump administration to reunite immigrant families separated under Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Speaking in the company of ...
A team of researchers has printed a “bionic eye” prototype using 3D printing technology, potentially giving sight to the blind. A team of scientists from the University of Minnesota has 3D-printed a “bionic eye” prototype. ...
Anyone can determine from collective news sites that the “counter” insurgency Afghanistan war is not going well. It is a complex problem that many think is unsolvable. I offer my experience and knowledge purely as ...
An Arkansas wheelchair-bound woman, Candace Paige Lydon, has filed a federal lawsuit against the authorities of the Garland County Detention Center (GCDC) for the jail abuse she suffered during her pretrial detention at the facility. ...
Alexander Williams Jr. a retired U.S District Judge has been tasked with leading an investigation panel that will look into the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) corruption scandal. The investigation comes at a ...
“The next time you have a medical check-up, don’t be surprised if your doctor hands you a prescription to walk.” (Harvard Medical School 2017) It’s not just alternative health doctors who now tell people to ...
So why is the US really messing around with Iran? In a word, control. By controlling Iran, which contains a huge percentage of the world’s oil reserves, at least for now, the US can control ...
Facebook has taken down over 80 pages devoted to alternative health in an effort to clamp down on fake news. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently vowed to purge fake news from the social media platform, ...
The Federal Court of Appeals overturned the approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP) expansion on Thursday, discrediting the existing review given by the National Energy Board (NEB) and siding with the First Nations groups ...
There is a war raging right now in the United States and in fact, around the world. Extreme viewpoints on the political spectrum are claiming victims and enslaving them to their cause. I would like ...
A Nova Scotia jail has joined the U.S. prison strike that has lasted just over a week and rallied inmates into hunger, work, or commissary goods strikes. Despite publicity challenges, prison advocates have confirmed small ...
In a rare win for victims of police shootings, a jury sentenced former Texas Police Officer Roy Oliver to 15 years for the shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Oliver, 38, was convicted for shooting 15-year-old ...
Lyme disease and other insect-transmitted diseases are spreading into new regions of the United States and infecting people at an increased rate. Many environmentalists and scientists believe global warming is the culprit. Lyme Disease Now ...
The consequences arising from the massive proliferation of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States are staggering. The fallout from the pharmaceutical industry can be felt in all corners of America, by people from every background ...
In the era of President Donald Trump tribalism has become more prevalent than it has been in modern history. We could get into the reasons for this, which I believe includes decades of the Democrat ...
A 41-page report prepared for the United Nations Human Rights Council blames all coalition members to the ongoing war in Yemen for human rights violations in the country. The report says the Yemeni government, the ...
Ex-Papal Nuncio Carlo Maria Vigano published an 11-page testimony accusing Pope Francis of covering up clerical sexual abuses in the Catholic Church, and calling for the pope’s resignation. However, other Bishops have sided with Pope ...
Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos are both known for making huge business announcements, but the company’s most recent announcement regarding their employee healthcare sent insurance stocks plummeting. Amazon has teamed up with both JPMorgan ...
Walmart is perhaps Amazon’s only real competition, and now Walmart is looking to make more aggressive moves into the digital shopping experience by creating a fully functional virtual reality shopping experience. The giant retailer has ...
“America To Me” is a new 10-part documentary series premiering on Starz, exploring the racial inequalities in a suburban Chicago high school. Produced by Steve James, whose credits include the highly acclaimed 1994 documentary Hoop ...
Other than being a leading cause of death worldwide, air pollution is now also a leading cause of severe brain damage, according to a new study which has linked air pollution to decreasing levels of ...
Republican Senator John McCain died on Saturday at the age of 81. While the nation mourns the loss of this great patriot and independent Republican politician and failed presidential candidate, I implore you to remember ...
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions together with U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Justin Herdman, announced last week the arrest of one of the most prolific dark net fentanyl vendors in the world, as a ...
For the first time, a government official has been indicted for deaths resulting from the Flint water crisis in Michigan. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director Nick Lyon is charged with the ...
(Stop The Drug War) Last week, the good citizens of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie County got a rude shock. The county’s top lawmen, Sheriff William Brewer, was at the courthouse, which was not unusual. This time, though, ...
Two Latino civil rights organizations staged a protest on Saturday outside Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the lack of Latino representation in its films. Leaders for the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) and the ...
Paul Manafort was charged guilty on August 21 for five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to file foreign bank account reports in the first sentencing instigated ...
On Friday, Australia’s former finance minister Scott Morrison was named the country’s new prime minister. He was elected after winning the Liberal Party’s internal ballot 45-40 over former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. Another candidate, ...
On Friday the U.S. State Department announced that Washington would cut more than $200 million in aid to Palestine. A senior official in the State Department said that the funds which were initially planned for ...
A mass shooting has been reported at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida and several have been reported dead in the preliminary investigation. The attack, which was live streamed inadvertently by players in the ...
It’s been a while since I published the first two articles in this series, so click here to review the first article, which provided a brief introduction to media bias and its related terms, or ...
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