Month: October 2020

The imminent public execution of 21-year-old Saudi activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr has sparked worldwide condemnation while, at the same time, shining a light on what rights groups say is the brutal impunity under which the Saudi Arabian government operates, thanks to its “special relationship” with Western leaders. The Saudi government sentenced al-Nimr to death by…

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The visit to the United Nations by Pope Francis during a General Assembly session, described as a historic first in the ageing 70-year-old organisation, has created a security nightmare both for the world body and New York city police. The U.N. neighbourhood is expected to be turned into a war zone…

Climate justice activists and community members are coming together throughout the country on Wednesday to demand urgent action from world leaders on the environment, workers rights, social justice, and other issues ahead of next month’s United Nations COP21 talks in Paris. #peoplesclimate Tweets Actions are expected in more than 175 communities across 40 states as…

The military blimp that loosed itself from its tethers in Maryland and floated away over the eastern seaboard, pursued by fighter jets, is now descending to the ground, authorities said. “JLENS aerostat drifting northward & has descended near the ground,” the North American Aerospace Defense Command tweeted. “Anyone seeing the aerostat notify law enforcement &…

Targeting the chemical giant which for decades allegedly polluted the San Francisco Bay with a highly toxic environmental contaminant, the city of Oakland on Tuesday filed suit against Monsanto. In a press statement announcing the suit, Oakland city attorney Barbara Parker accused Monsanto of concealing information on the dangers of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs), long before…

Following a week of stinging rebukes, boycott announcements, and high-profile commentary from some of the film industry’s most prominent performers, writers, and directors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body which officiates the Oscars each year, announced it would be making “sweeping” changes in order to increase diversity among its notoriously secretive,…

Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo reckons the Eifel Grand Prix could spring a shocker based on the inclement weather that is likely to surround the Nürburgring next weekend. The German track owes its presence on the 2020 calendar to this year’s COVID-19 truncated schedule that has forced F1 to rebuild its agenda by focusing in priority on…

Sen. Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Democrats demand Republican leaders examine election challenges after Georgia voting chaos Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk MORE (D-Minn.) is…

President Donald Trump immediately removed his face mask when he returned to the White House on Monday evening, despite testing positive for the coronavirus less than a week ago and amid an ongoing outbreak among staffers in the West Wing. The president left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center just minutes earlier after a three-day…

Corporate dollars intensify ideological polarization while sowing mistrust on the issue of climate change, with ExxonMobil and the Koch family foundations driving the phenomenon through the creation of climate disinformation think tanks and dissemination of coordinated contrarian messaging in mainstream media and public discourse. So finds a new study, published this week in the Proceedings of…