Category: War
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
As the Maldives Gains Tourists, It’s Losing Its Beaches “We’re losing a nationality, an identity, a cultural history, a language, a script,” he added. “We’re losing the beaches. We’re losing the coconut palms. We’re losing everything.” #Maldives #ClimateChange #International#Island Ethiopia extends state of emergency by four month “Opposition parties complain that the emergency is being…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
I Gave Instant Photos To More Than 60 Tanzanians Who Don’t Have Them And Captured Their Smiles There is a Swahili expression “Watu sio milima” which signifies “People are not mountains”. Each time when I demonstrate that I’m not a mountain and vacation from one place to another I see this entire world from a…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The Trump Administration Has So Far Found Only $20 Million for Its Over $12 Billion Wall The rapid start of construction, promised throughout Trump’s campaign and in an executive order issued in January on border security, was to be financed, according to the White House, with “existing funds and resources” of the Department of Homeland…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
South Sudan in Crisis as Famine Ravages World’s Newest Country “This famine is man-made,”said Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Program in South Sudan. “There is only so much that humanitarian assistance can achieve in the absence of meaningful peace and security.” #SouthSudan#Africa#Famine#HumanRights 24 Arrested After Protests Sparked in Anaheim by Videotaped Struggle…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘I’d Like To See You Hold Back On Settlements,’ Trump Tells Netanyahu “A two-state solution that doesn’t bring peace is not a goal that anybody wants to achieve,” the official said. “Peace is the goal, whether it comes in the form of a two-state solution if that’s what the parties want or something else, if…
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Evolved Man of the Week: James Baldwin
Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure who embodies what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
TrumpBeat: There Is No Pivot “Donald Trump’s campaign for president was notably light on policy details, which meant no one was sure what he’d do once he took office. Washington insiders debated whether he would govern as the populist bomb thrower he presented during the campaign or morph into a more conventional Republican, in policy…
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Evolved Man of the Week: Eugene Bullard
Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure who embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Barack Obama, Leaving on Top, Meets the Press One Last Time as President “That’s the difference between the man leaving the White House and the one moving into it. The one leaving it may not exactly have united the country, but he tried (and you can make a semi-plausible case that 60 percent approval constitutes…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama “Bernie Sanders gallantly tried to generate a leftwing populism but he was crushed by Clinton and Obama in the unfair Democratic party primaries. So now we find ourselves entering a neofascist era: a neoliberal economy on steroids, a reactionary repressive attitude toward domestic “aliens”, a militaristic cabinet eager…
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