TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
‘With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by African-Americans.’ A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina’s controversial voter ID law, ruling that the 2013 law was created “with discriminatory intent.” Civil rights groups hailed the decision as a major victory. “With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to Read More…
U.S. Army captain sued President Obama over legality of sprawling ISIS conflict. A lawsuit filed earlier this year charging President Barack Obama with waging an illegal war against the Islamic State (or ISIS) was met on Tuesday with a motion from the Obama administration asking the court to dismiss it. In its motion to dismiss Read More…
Recent poll finds 71 percent of Americans believe U.S. economy is rigged. A new Marketplace-Edison Research poll published Tuesday found that a full 71 percent of respondents agree that the economy is rigged, affirming the popular rhetoric of the current presidential campaign season. The majority opinion held firm across ethnicity, class, age, and gender differences. Read More…
‘The situation is criminal’ Less than six months after two horrific oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon devastated Indigenous communities and the local ecosystem, yet another spill in the region has been reported. On Friday afternoon, a leak was discovered in the Nothern Peruvian Pipeline—the same pipeline responsible for the earlier spills—that eventually coated over Read More…
’15 years later, lives lost, billions spent…’ Despite a vow to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2017, President Barack Obama this week veered the opposite direction, widening the U.S. military’s role in the entrenched, 15-years-long conflict. The Washington Post reported on Thursday evening that the Obama administration’s new measures “authorize U.S. troops, Read More…
‘The cover-up has allowed the industry to dig in for years of delay in cutting emissions—at the worst possible time’ Why has the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to take adequate action against dangerous methane emissions from the fracking industry? An environmental watchdog alleges that the answer may be a years-long, systematic cover-up of the true data Read More…