Category: Politics
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Tunisian black women: ‘My skin colour says I don’t belong’ In 2018, Tunisia passed a landmark law to criminalise racial discrimination, in particular anti-black racism against black Tunisians and black African migrants. It became the first country in the Arab region to make discrimination specifically on racial grounds a criminal offence. #Tunisia #Racism #BlackLivesMatter #Africa…
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It’s YOUR Fault!
Every May in the United States is Mental Health Awareness Month. If you’re not filthy rich, white, Christain, or able-bodied or all those things, this society can be taxing on one’s mental health and wellness. U.S. culture loves to blame the individual for their problems, and societal problems are always the individual’s fault. You can…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
As the West surges toward electric cars, here’s where the unwanted gas guzzlers go “Today with climate change, it doesn’t really matter where the emissions are taking place,” de Jong said. “Whether in Washington, DC, or Lagos, it makes no difference.” #Benin #Kenya #ClimateCrisis #cars China slams G7 statement; lodges protest against brazen interference in…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
BIDEN IS SELLING WEAPONS TO THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD’S AUTOCRACIES Rather, the new figures reveal the continuity between Republican and Democratic administrations. While Biden signaled early on that his arms sales policy would be based primarily on strategic and human rights considerations, not just economic interests, he broke from that policy not too long after entering…
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American Psychos
The definition of a psychopath is “a person affected by chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.” There are some differences between someone diagnosed as a sociopath versus a psychopath. For the sake of this article, we’re gonna use psychopath. I am a licensed social worker but not a psychologist or psychiatrist. I can’t officially…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Migrants crossing dense Darien jungle at Colombia-Panama border find increasingly organized route The Darien Gap is the most imposing physical barrier for migrants heading north until they reach the U.S. border. They must hike over steep mountains, endure torrential rain and ford swift running rivers. They are easy prey for bandits who rob and rape. #migrants #BorderCrisis #Columbia…
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Fuck Dem Kids 2.0
It’s 2023, and one of U.S. history’s most shitty past times is back with a vengeance: Child Labor. I wrote in a previous post that the United States of America’s bolstering of caring about the welfare of children in this nation. Yet it fails children and teens at every turn. The good old U.S.A. is…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Uganda’s anti-gay bill is the latest and worst to target LGBTQ Africans “Queer people don’t owe anyone anything, but we also deserve to live just like everyone else.” #Uganda #lgtbqia #HumanRights #Africa Atlanta shuts down strategic park in ‘Cop City’ protest movement “I never anticipated this – that Dekalb would do the swap, or that…
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I hope that it’s Healing
In my last journal entry, I concluded with the sentence, “I’m not sure about this ambivalence, but I hope that it’s healing,” and then sat for a while with that last clause. People who know me know I’ve struggled with mental health over the past few years. What I thought was a brief existential crisis…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Despite Israeli restrictions, Christians celebrate Holy Flame “We send a message to the international community and advocates of peace and human rights that the persecution of the right to worship in Palestine against Muslims and Christians is unacceptable and needs urgent intervention. Our people have the right to get rid of the occupation and live…
