Month: October 2020

As European Union leaders met in Brussels on Saturday where they discussed possible new sanctions against Russia and what they described as Russian aggression, a “Amidst Mounting Tensions in Ukraine, a Call Rises: 'No to New Wars, No to NATO'”

Attorney General Eric Holder will announce his resignation on Thursday, the Department of Justice has confirmed. Having served under President Obama for nearly six years, “Attorney General Eric Holder to Resign”

2016 will register as one of the most memorable campaign seasons in modern U.S. history, if not in the 240 year history of the nation. “Email servers to 'birther' rumors — Top 5 campaign op-eds of 2016”

GAZA CITY – “When the [Israeli] shelling started, I gathered up my family and headed for what I though was a safe place, like a “War Over but Not Gaza’s Housing Crisis”

As British Prime Minister David Cameron escalates his rhetoric following the release on Saturday of a video that appears to show an Islamic State of “UK Rhetoric Against ISIS Escalates Following Briton's Beheading”

Prominent private philanthropies and charitable foundations, including one built from the oil fortune of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, are announcing their intention to “Major Foundations and Investors, Including Heirs to Oil Fortune, Pledge Fossil Fuel Divestment”

Police in Hong Kong unleashed tear gas on a massive, peaceful protest outside of government headquarters on Sunday morning, where tens of thousands of activists “Hong Kong Protests Turn Chaotic as Police Fire Tear Gas”

COLOMBO – In pure numbers, the past few decades have been marked by destruction: over the last 40 years, Earth has lost 52 percent of “Humanity Failing the Earth’s Ecosystems”

Laws that require voters to present identification at the polls reduced voter turnout in the 2008 and 2012 general elections, according to a report released “Sanders: New Report Shows Voter ID Laws Are 'Intended to Discourage Voting'”

African lions are at risk of extinction in the foreseeable future and should be listed as threatened on the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish “Facing Imminent Extinction, African Lions Demand Federal Protection, say Officials”