Category: International
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American Idiocracy
Dumb it Down? The infamous and incredible comedian George Carlin once said: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” He was talking about his fellow American citizens. T.V. host, comedian, and lizard man, Bill Maher often comments on the average American’s level of intelligence or…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Pakistani boy gang-raped in Greek migrant camp: police ATHENS: Four Pakistani minors have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old boy in a Greek migrant camp, police said Wednesday. #Pakistan #Greece #International #ChildAbuse Biocentrism Says Time and Death Are Illusions You’ve Invented Okay, I admit it. They had me at “You won’t actually die.” I…
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It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Climate Crisis
It’s Getting Hot in Here In June 2016, I witnessed firsthand the fury of Mother Nature. I was in West Virginia on a backpacking trip at Monongahela National Park. The second morning of the trip, a couple of park rangers told our group that we should head for higher ground because the river might crest…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
12 police officers injured during North Carolina protests “Protests erupted overnight Tuesday into Wednesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a police officer shot and killed an African-American man while looking for another person who had an outstanding warrant.” #NorthCarolina#BlackLivesMatter#KeithLamontScott 375 Top Scientists Warn Us Not To Vote For Trump Hundreds of the world’s leading scientists,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Breaking: Riot Police Begin Mass-Arrests at Dakota Access Pipeline, FB Censors Video “According to independent news outlet Unicorn Riot, at least 20 protesters, or “water protectors,” have been arrested at gunpoint along with medics and two journalists. Police issued a one-time warning to “water protectors” that any trespassers would be arrested. The warning came…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
I’m an American woman living in Delhi. ‘Don’t date the locals’ is horrible advice. Because, much to the contrary of that insulting advice I received while studying abroad here the first time, falling in love with people who are different from you is the only way to find real community in another culture. And learning…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Donald Glover on Why ‘Atlanta’ Has an All-Black Writing Staff “As Glover told writer Rembert Browne for Vulture (the story also appears in New York Magazine’s new print issue), FX initially suggested that a drug dealer character live in “traplike” apartment. “We were like, ‘No, he’s a drug dealer, he makes enough money to live in a regular apartment,’”…
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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
THE LEGACY OF LYNCHING, ON DEATH ROW “In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It guarantees legal representation to every inmate on the state’s death row.” #DeathRow#NewJimCrow#Injustice#Race Scientists have a scary theory about why human vision evolved to…
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Half of the Sky
Cloudy Skies Ahead During my young and single days, like most 20 somethings, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. But I had fun while looking. I was at a bar one night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. I met a young nurse we’ll call “Rose.” She was sitting alone at the…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
For These African Migrants, Life in China Isn’t What They Promised “More and more Gambian migrants are giving up on their “Chinese Dream” and doing whatever they can to head home. “ #Gambia#China#Migrants#International Black science fiction writers face ‘universal’ racism, study finds “The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by “structural, institutional, personal,…
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