G20 Summit Fails to Deliver on Vaccine Equity, Climate Action
Leaders of the world’s richest nations wrapped up the Group of 20 Summit in Rome on Sunday after taking virtually no concrete action to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the intensifying climate crisis, drawing condemnation from human rights advocates who deemed the gathering’s outcome an “abysmal and total failure.” “G20 leaders could have taken urgent […]
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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Texas’s 6-Week Abortion Law Monday
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in the cases challenging Texas’s repressive abortion law, which effectively bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The Court granted an expedited appeal of the law to the Court in late October. will hear two cases relating to the statuteExamining whether the federal Department of […]
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Protests at COP26 Call on UK to Block Massive Cambo Oil Field Off Scottish Coast
Image Credit: Greenpeace UK The U.K. government attempts to take the U.N. climate leadership role. Climate Change Conference, we talk with Mary Church, head of campaigns, Friends of the Earth Scotland. She describes how activists are calling for Boris Johnson, the U.K. Prime minister, to stop the development of the Cambo oil field off Scotland’s […]
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Scott Walker’s Formula for Getting Young Americans to Reject Big-Government Socialism
Scott Walker, the former governor of Wisconsin was able to see firsthand the effects of cancel culture. He was the first American governor to survive recall elections in 2012. His economic recovery plan and budget cuts proved more popular with voters. As president of the Young America’s Foundation, Walker is showing the next generation of […]
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Struggles for Voting Rights Will Shape the Fate of Abortion Access
Advocates at the state-level are at the forefront of many intersecting battles in a larger effort to protect democracy. The ongoing program of eroding constitutionally protected freedoms and rights for all is often covered as distinct considerations. However, the systematic attack against voting rights and abortion access is connected to the larger quest to protect […]
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Haiti’s Humanitarian Crisis Reveals the Human Costs of US Interventionism
This September U.S. border patrol agentsThe Rio Grande Rio Grande was the site of an attack that violently took hostages from Haitian refugees. This incident attracted fierce criticism and international attention. Officers riding on horses trotted through families, using their reins as whips, and chased migrants with their meager possessions packed in plastic bags. After […]
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Biden’s DOJ Downplayed Suicide Risk for Assange in Appeal of Extradition Denial
The Biden administration asked two United Kingdom High Court judges to overturn the British district judge’s denial of extradition of journalist Julian Assange this week during an October 27-28 appeals hearing in London. If the American authorities are requested to extradite the Biden administration, WikiLeaksFor exposing evidence of U.S. War Crimes, founder could be sentenced […]
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Trial of Rudy Giuliani Associate Exposes Methods and Networks of Secret Donors
Lev Parnas (Soviet-born, former business associate of) Rudy GiulianiRecently, he was convicted of campaign finance crimes. His case, and others, exposed the ways secret donors — including foreign nationals — can hide their identities from the American public while currying influence with U.S. politicians through straw donors, shell companies and “dark money.” A jury was […]
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800 Educators in Scranton Prepare for Strike After 4 Years Without a Contract
After four years of working without a contract, 800 teachers/paraprofessionals in Scranton Federation of Teachers are ready to strike. If an agreement isn’t reached between the union and district management, a strike would start November 3. The SFT’s leadership made the announcement about striking after four years of working without a contract or a pay […]
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It’s Not Just the Missionaries — There Were 782 Kidnappings in Haiti This Year
According to the White House’s daily briefings, President Joe Biden received updates on the 17 North American missionaries, children, and hostages in Haiti. Three FBI agents were also sent to Haiti by the U.S. The kidnapping of two U.S. citizens and one Canadian citizen has caused some attention to the incident within U.S. media. But […]
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