Category: Nature
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Mass shootings are America’s parade of horribles It is a fact that the U.S. is armed for battle and that the homeland is threatened, but the assailant is neither an abusive king nor a foreign enemy. Americans have taken up weapons of war against their neighbors. #fourthofjuly #massshootings #Gunviolence #theunitedstates The “Sniper Frontier” competition of the Army Games…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
“Horrific”: World leaders react to end of Roe v. Wade in U.S. “The ruling of [the U.S.] Supreme Court that makes abortion illegal reminds us that there is always a risk of going backward. In Latin America, we advance on the path of rights, and from Chile we will continue to strongly defend the full…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Record-breaking heat wave sprawls across US Triple-digit temperatures, while not unusual in the U.S. Southwest, are arriving earlier and more often in the summer season due to climate change. Worse, above-average temperatures are sticking around through the night — another consequence, climate studies show, of planetary warming. In the areas where officials issued excessive heat warnings this weekend,…
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Let’s Talk About Sex
Sex Ed is a Joke It’s been a couple of decades since I was a teenager, but I remember watching the movie Mean Girls when I was on a date in my early 20s. It was the scene where the gym teacher told a group of students, “If you have the sex, you’ll get pregnant…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
5 Mexican Dog Breeds In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, we compiled a list of Mexico’s five native dog breeds and interesting facts about each. Four of the five breeds start with the letter “C” and the other one is a tongue-twister. #Mexico #Dogs #cincodemayo Search for survivors of China building collapse ends, 53 confirmed dead The…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In worsening gang fighting in Haiti, 20 dead, thousands displaced Criminal violence in Haiti intensified this week, with fighting among rival gangs in part of the capital killing at least 20 people, among them children, and leading to thousands having to flee their homes. #Haiti #Gangs #Violence Heatwave in India breaks records, still worsening The average temperature…
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Reflections on the Empire: Part III
New World Order If you watch the mainstream media in the United States, the average citizen would be blissfully unaware of the sea change in geopolitics happening thanks to the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The global south has refused to condemn Russian actions against the nation of Ukraine. I deep dove into Europe’s latest war in…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Two Palestinian women killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank “It’s gotten to a point where nobody is safe – not Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Palestinians in Gaza, not Palestinians in the West Bank, and not Palestinians in forced exile,” #palestine #Israel #WestBank #Conflict Poll: 7% of U.S. adults say they’ve had ‘long COVID.’ That’s 18…
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Reflections on the Empire: Part 1
World War III? In February 2022, the fever pitch of calls for war arose in the mainstream press. Russia invaded the nation of Ukraine. Most Americans didn’t think much about Ukraine before this year, despite the fact, the U.S. sponsored two coups in that country in 2014. It enforced policies that led that nation to become…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The EU should treat all refugees like it is treating Ukrainians Multiple commentators have argued that Europe’s differential treatment of Ukrainian refugees demonstrates its racism or its neo-colonialism – pointing a discerning finger at the distance between the universal values the EU claims and how these values manifest themselves at a practical level. #EuropeanUnion #Refugees #War #Hope “It’s Going to be Real,”…
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