Month: October 2020

Intelligence analysts are accusing the upper brass of the U.S. Military’s Central Command of “flipping everything on its head” in order to present the United States’ ongoing war on ISIS in a positive light and maintain the bombing of Iraq and Syria. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Pentagon Inspector General’s investigation, which…

While touting the importance of environmental justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pushing a draft “framework” for tackling the problem that lacks substance, residents of polluted communities, advocates and agency employees say. Last week, the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice released more than 600 public comments filed by environmental groups, trade associations, academics and…

Ahead of Prime Minister David Cameron’s first-ever visit to Jamaica, the British government is facing growing demands to apologize and pay reparations for the country’s “haunting” legacies of slavery, colonialism, and native genocide. In an open letter published Monday in the Jamaica Observer, chairperson of the Caricom Reparations Commission Hilary Beckles declared: “We ask not…

For reasons that remain unclear, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been in possession of the controversial cell phone spying devices known as Stingrays, the Guardian exclusively reported on Monday. Invoices obtained following a request under the Freedom of Information Act show purchases made in 2009 and 2012 by the federal tax agency with Harris…

African civil society organizations championing for climate justice have criticized the Intended Nationally Determined Commitments (INDC’s) presented to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, calling them “weak, inadequate and not ambitious enough.”Click Here: Putters “If you study carefully what has been submitted by the developed countries like, Russia, USA and EU compared to…

While they praised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for formalizing a policy that loosens the longstanding ban on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, LGBTQ and public health advocates on Monday said the “discriminatory” plan still leaves much to be desired. “Blood donation policies should be based on science, not stigma.”—Kelsey Louie,…

A new Senior-level competition will be hosted in the United States this winter, providing another opportunity for our top stars in the Olympic styles to test themselves and improve their skills. One of the nation’s most successful wrestling clubs, the Minnesota Storm, has organized this new event, which will offer Senior-level competition in all three…

Just days after French President François Hollande vowed a “merciless” response to the Paris attacks, his government on Thursday submitted a resolution for the United Nations Security Council to “take all necessary measures” against ISIS. The French proposal, which could face a vote as early as Friday, competes with a separate one re-submitted by Russia…

A climate change denial event in Paris, organized jointly by two US groups, the coal-funded Heartland Institute and The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), held to coincide with the UN climate COP21 talks, quietly flopped Monday when hardly anyone turned up to listen to what actual experts consider to be Heartland’s counter-factual nonsense. Billed…

The 2016 spending bill approved last week by U.S. Congress and signed late Friday by President Barack Obama included a measure that effectively ended the federal ban on medical marijuana and paves the way for significant reforms of the war on drugs. “For decades Congress has been responsible for passing disastrous drug laws,” said Michael…