TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
‘The story behind the #PanamaPapers?’ tweets Edward Snowden. ‘Courage is contagious.’ An anonymous source, an enormous cache of leaked documents, and a year-long investigative effort by around 400 journalists from more than 100 media organizations in over 80 countries have yielded the Panama Papers, an unprecedented look at how the world’s rich and powerful, from political Read More…
The Nigerian government is being urged by 5 million citizens to reject Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country’s food and farming systems. Monsanto doesn’t seek to feed the world, it seeks to control the food supply. At least, that’s the general consensus reached by millions who have been educated on Read More…
Texas — Nestlé, the Swiss multinational corporation whose CEO has been known to say that clean drinking water is ‘not a human right,’ is at it again. Recently, the company paid only $524 to extract 27,000,000 gallons of California’s drinking water in the middle of one of the worst droughts the state has ever seen, but they’ve Read More…
As the proliferation of staged events and the accompanying fear campaigns and predictable clampdowns ensue, it’s always good to take stock of any situation unfolding and assess how best to handle what’s transpiring. With the playing field changing at such a rapid rate, locally as well as globally, it’s wise to see how to perhaps Read More…
It came out publicly not too long ago that the democratic political system in the US doesn’t quite work the way many people had imagined. When senior GOP official Curly Haugland told CNBC that he isn’t even sure why caucuses are held, considering the votes don’t matter, it validated what many who criticize the political system have Read More…
Phoenix, AZ — Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford has been charged with the second-degree murder of Daniel Shaver, an innocent father of two. The shooting was captured on his body cam. On January 18, Brailsford, along with several other officers, responded to a call about a suspect with a rifle in a hotel room. The Read More…