Last Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia saw former senator Ivan Duque, from Centro Democratico, win 39 percent of the vote, while ex-rebel-turned-politician Gustavo Petro took nearly 25 percent of the vote. Coming in third was ex-Medellin ...
The Hungarian government and Prime Minister Victor Orban have drafted a new law to combat migrant asylum-seekers moving into the EU and to criminalize the aide workers assisting them in Hungary. If passed in its ...
Just days after Kinder Morgan officials confirmed the accidental leak of 100 liters of crude oil from a flow meter at the Darfield facility of the Trans Mountain pipeline, Kinder Morgan announced they struck a ...
The Royal Wedding came and went on May 19th with lots of glamour and over 10 million people tuning in to watch on local television, but underneath the glamour simmered the issue of homelessness in ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemns Amazon’s facial recognition tool, Rekognition, as invasive and dangerous. Rekognition is powered by artificial intelligence. It is capable of identifying faces from photo databases with several millions of ...
Hot off of her controversial turn at the White House Correspondence dinner earlier this year, comedian Michelle Wolf launched her new Netflix series on Sunday. A weekly talk show entitled “The Break With Michelle Wolf,” it promptly ...
Pete Davidson is not joking around. The “Saturday Night Live” star is setting the record straight on dating with Borderline Personality Disorder, after backlash on social media that criticized how it might affect his current ...
Last Thursday, the United Nation (UN) Security Council unanimously agreed on a first-ever resolution that addresses conflict-induced famine and links hunger to war. The resolution also condemns starvation as a method of warfare. The newly-adopted ...
I was born in Germany. I belong to what is sometimes referred to as the “generation of the grandchildren” (“Enkelgeneration”). In other words: Germans that were born decades after the Nazis took power and pitched ...
America’s current economic situation is not one of financial security or encouraging growth. Below the surface of our 106+ month-long “recovery,” now the second longest on record, is a sense of anxious anarchy in American ...
The highly anticipated General Data Protection Law (GDPR) took effect on Friday. This new privacy law, developed by the European Union (EU), aims to protect internet users’ privacy in hopes that the data breach scandal ...
On Saturday, the Republic of Ireland voted to toss the prevailing abortion ban in a referendum that repealed Ireland’s Eighth Amendment. According to the official result, around 66 percent of voters voted for ending the abortion ...
Joshua Holt, an American citizen who has been held captive in Venezuela since 2016, is back home in the United States. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Saturday that Holt was released from prison ...
(AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz) In a 351-66 vote, the House of Representatives has passed their version of the 2019 military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA intends to spend $717 billion in the next fiscal ...
The amount of people “sleeping rough” or homeless on U.K. streets has increased by 169% since 2010. As homelessness in the UK has grown so too has the number of people dying on the streets ...
The U.S. military is building its 33rd military base on the small Japanese island, Okinawa, but locals are waging a multi-year, non-violent protest to stop construction and preserve Oura Bay and its spectacular coral reef ...
While the new National Football League (NFL) anthem policy pleases some, it also angers many others – many athletes, coaches, and sports personalities have spoken out against the decision. Michelle Beadle commented on the situation ...
Ready for a deep dive into economic trends and theory facing the American manufacturing sector? I get it—the topic may not be an altogether sexy one—but the implications that accompany these trends are important ones, ...
Politicians and businesses want you to think questioning war disrespects veterans like me. They’re wrong. (OtherWords, by Kevin Basl) “How do you motivate men and women to fight and die for a cause many of them don’t believe ...
The summit of the century has been called off. In a letter written to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump explained that the United States was pulling out of the summit “for ...
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Wednesday that NFL owners had approved a new policy to fine teams if any player or personnel on the field during the national anthem refuses to stand. The catch ...
Fallout From Cambridge Analytic Data Usage The conversation surrounding digital security is in the international spotlight following Cambridge Analytica filing for bankruptcy. Data and security experts have begun looking towards blockchain technology as a possible ...
A technological revolution is sweeping across Africa, and Uganda is determined not to leave girls behind. While many African women face economic challenges due to poor governance, unemployment, and early marriage, but now young girls ...
Nicolas Maduro unsurprisingly won Sunday’s Venezuelan presidential election, securing a new six-year term. Former vice president for the late Hugo Chavez gained 68 percent of the vote, according to Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE). His ...
More than 40 percent of American households cannot afford rent, transportation, childcare, or a cellphone, according to a new study from the United Way Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed Project, obtained by Axios. U.S. households ...
The duopoly of Amazon and Walmart in Indian retail market spells doom for lakhs of retailers who supply our everyday needs. (NewsClick.In, by Prabir Purkayastha) Walmart’s 14 billion dollar acquisition of Flipkart has sent the Indian ...
Cynicism. It is a term which any reasonable adult has adopted to describe global conflict resolution. For most of us that have studied global politics, war, strategy, and conflict resolution, we have come to accept ...
In recent years, rape allegations are being taken more seriously, but are male victims and especially male prisoner rape victims being left behind? Through events such as the #NotOkay campaign that recently took over Twitter, ...
Singer-Songwriter Shawn Mendes made a powerful statement in solidarity with gun violence victims at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, performing a song with members of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School choir from ...
The Chinese Air Force (CAF) dropped several bombs on various islands and reefs in the disputed South China Sea, the bombing they claimed was part of a military exercise. “A division of the People’s Liberation ...
During a special session on Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council enacted a resolution that allows the international body to send a commission to the Gaza Strip to investigate human rights violations. Only the ...
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to the Department of Justice on Sunday and it did not take long for it to respond. “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department ...
There’s something tragic and unequivocally devastating happening to men in America today. During this #MeToo era, men are seen as rapists and misogynists when in fact most are gentlemen. Sadly, men are literally a ...
The investigation into President Donald Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller is about to wrap up. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Mueller plans to conclude the investigation by Sept. 1, according to ...
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: It’s finally time for me to retire my trusty old Nalgene and upgrade my water bottle. Are any brands or models particularly greener ...
When you look at their faces, you may be tempted to think that these are just your ordinary female game rangers, especially with their serene faces and smiles. But do not mistake their calm disposition ...
Another day and another horrid school shooting. This time at Santa Fe High School in Texas, claiming the lives of eight students and two teachers. A lot will be written about gun control and the ...
Wells Fargo not long ago released a commercial titled “Earning Back Your Trust” that starts with a man on horseback riding in slow motion. The voiceover begins, “We know the value of trust. We were ...
The European Commission (EC) will reactivate the “blocking statue” that bans companies and courts within the European Union (EU) bloc to abide by the U.S. sanctions on Iran. The blocking statute was designed in 1996 ...
On Tuesday, I wrote about the spike in homelessness on the West Coast and the insurmountable problem politicians face in tackling this troubling issue. There is no clear-cut solution, but something needs to be done. ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance In this episode of KVoice of Resistance, we cover a boatload of news you are not hearing beneath the noise and chaos of the White House. We ...
Another school shooting and the only thing that ever changes is that we become more desensitized to it. It’s so routine now it feels sickening how numb we are becoming and how unshocking kids being shot ...
Director Spike Lee received a six-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival after the Monday night premiere of his new drama BlacKkKlansman, based on the true story of two undercover detectives, one black and the other Jewish, ...
Internal documents obtained by The Guardian show how a network of right-wing think tanks have launched a nationwide effort to convince members of public sector unions to stop paying dues. (Democracy Now transcript) The effort ...
“At some point, I realized I could not in good faith recommend anyone join Google, knowing what I knew. I realized if I can’t recommend people join here, then why am I still here?” About ...
If you’ve paid attention to the news lately perhaps you’ve heard people questioning whether China just bribed Trump, but what exactly is the issue? The centerpiece of the issue is ZTE, a Chinese electronics company ...
Rosneft, a Russian oil firm stated that drilling in the disputed South China Sea by Rosneft was carried out within Vietnam territorial waters and is in accordance with Vietnam law despite claims to the area ...
Homelessness in America is out of control, especially on the West Coast. The total homeless population in the U.S. rose this past year for the first time since 2010, driven primarily by a steep increase ...
Americans spanning the political spectrum share battle cries about media bias, but what is it, and why does it exist? It’s not unusual today to hear complaints about mainstream media. “Fake news,” “media bias,” ...
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