Month: October 2020

As city bike share programs sprout up in metropolitan areas nationwide and local governments attempt to tally the cost-benefit of such programs, analysts note that the “costs” of bike shares pale in comparison to the untold social and environmental costs of cars. According to a Reuters article published on Wednesday, since the first bike share…

Bringing to a close a summer-long supermarket standoff, a deal was reached late Wednesday to sell the majority stake of family-owned, New England-based Market Basket to Arthur T. Demoulas for over $1.5 billion. The resolution was seen as a victory for employees and customers who had been engaged in an epic boycott of the grocery…

As the U.S. expands its war on the Islamic State (ISIS), rising Shi’a militias within Iraq—many of them armed and backed by the U.S.-allied Iraqi government—are “taking advantage” of a climate of violence and impunity to abduct, execute, and disappear scores of Sunni civilian men, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International. “By…

Hans Kribbe is author of “The Strongmen: European Encounters with Sovereign Power” (Agenda Publishing, 2020). Some 15 years ago, European Commission President Romano Prodi proposed a vision of Europe surrounded by “a ring of friends.” His words did not age well. Today, instead, the Continent finds itself encircled by czars, sultans and emperors, ruthlessly playing…

Long-term care homes were neglected as Ontario focused on preparing its hospitals for a potential surge in COVID-19 patients when the pandemic hit, doctors told an independent inquiry recently. But those nursing homes — which had insufficient personal protective equipment, a lack of universal masking policies and physicians refusing to enter facilities over fears of the…

President Obama delivered a national televised address on Wednesday night and told the American public that he now plans, with or without Congressional approval, to dramatically expand U.S. military operations against the militant faction known as the ‘Islamic State’ (aka ISIS and ISIL) by sending more U.S. combat troops to Iraq and initiating a bombing…

The U.S. government will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million as part of a historic settlement, bringing to a close a suit that accused the federal government of mismanagement of tribal trust funds and resources. Click Here: Maori All Blacks Store A formal announcement and signing will take place Friday. The deal, approved by the…

Ethnic Kurds across Turkey, human rights organizations inside Syria, and others (including the U.S. government) are calling for the Turkish government to more forcefully intervene in the fight against ISIS militants now taking place in the city of Kobani, a Kurdish stronghold that sits on the border between the two countries. As the U.S. continued…

A report by the United Nations, obtained by the Guardian newspaper, reveals that foreign jihadist fighters are flocking to battlefields in Iraq and Syria on an “unprecedented scale” since the United States and other allies began a wave of military operations in those countries over the last several months. According to the Guardian’s Spencer Ackermann,…

“What is happening?” asked author and activist Naomi Klein in a recent piece penned for the Guardian. “Are fossil fuel companies – long toxic to our natural environment – becoming toxic in the public relations environment as well? It seems so.” As fossil fuel divestment victories pile up this fall, from universities to cities to…