Image Source: Google Arts & Culture As this year continues to be defined by unexpected surprises, I can still recall my initial one. I had made plans to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York in January, but they had to be cancelled at the last minute as a result of anticipated snowstorms […]
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash French Police Preparing For Possible Food Riots by Hal Conte The police prefect of Paris’s suburban Seine-Saint-Denis department warned of the effects of potential food shortages caused by poverty as a result of the economic distress caused by the lock-downs. “We have 15,000 to 20,000 people in slums, emergency shelters and migrant […]
Illustration: Tia Marchiselli Syria Capital Under Fire From Israel Missiles by Hal Conte The Syrian government launched defences against missiles launched by Israeli airplanes in an attempt to protect the capital city of Damascus. The defence force of Tel Aviv has claimed to be attacking Iranian footholds within Syria in the past to justify its […]
Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels Sweden Could Succeed In Bet On Voluntary Approach by Hal Conte Despite making social distancing voluntary and not shutting down businesses or schools, including school sports leagues, Sweden’s coronavirus death rate per capita has remained close to the European average, including countries where far stricter measures have been applied. The average age […]
Illustration: Tia Marchiselli Zimbabwe Agriculture Faces Major Crisis by Hal Conte Potential for civil unrest is high in the country once known as the “breadbasket” of Africa, as Zimbabwe is suffering under the pressure of climate change-related droughts which has prevented many farmers from producing adequate harvests for more than two years. Larvae and reduced […]
Illustration: Tia Marchiselli Embassy–Caged Assange Birthed Two Kids by Hal Conte Wikileaks founder and former editor-in-chief Julian Assange, who is currently incarcerated at Belmarsh Prison, fathered two children while taking refuge in London’s Ecuadorian embassy, in a bombshell revelation by Stella Morris, the lawyer revealed to be his lover. One, Gabriel, was born in 2017, the […]
Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash Brazil’s Amazon Imperiled By COVID–19 by Hal Conte Illegal logging in the Amazon has soared to the highest rate in a decade, with seven indigenous people infected by the coronavirus which otherwise wouldn’t reach the remote dwellers. A few have compared the situation to the arrival of European colonialists in the […]
When you’re posting something for your friends to see on Instagram or researching background information for an assignment on Google, increasingly prominent economists and activists believe you are participating in colonialism. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it was often private companies backed by imperialist powers, including the British East India Company, the Dutch […]
Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP With karate, skateboarding, baseball and surfing, and medals made of recycled materials the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, the most sponsored sports event in world history with a price tag of a cool $26 billion was already going to set memorable records. Now, it has a more dubious distinction. In […]
Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels Gabon Bans Consumption Of Bats, Pangolins Due To Virus Fears by Hal Conte The Gabonese Republic has banned people from selling bats and pangolins for food under the belief among officials there that COVID-19 was the result of a wet meat market transfer in China. African bats were also […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Palestinian Farmers Accuse Israel Of Spraying Their Crops With Poison by Hal Conte Local human rights groups and farmers reported that Israeli planes sprayed chemicals intended to remove objects in the sightlines of soldiers into Gaza crop fields, with wheat, barley, corn, orka, and other crops near the rural areas of Zeitoun […]
Source: Xavier Galiana/AFP via Getty Images It started with a tweet. “A three day ultimatum to the police,” wrote Kapil Mishra, an Indian politician allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi – to clear the roads and after that please do not try to convince us, we would not even listen to you.” The result? Beatings, […]
Outrage Among Anti–Netanyahu Israelis As Rival Gantz Pushes Unity by Hal Conte Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz moved towards a “government of national unity” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he was elected speaker of the Knesset with support from Netanyahu’s Likud Party, angering the hundreds of thousands of people who chose to […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Iraq Enraged By Continuous U.S. Military Attacks In Its Territory by Hal Conte Iraq’s army is irate after the U.S. targeted and killed what Trump administration officials claimed were members of Kataib Hezbollah, an organization which the U.S. says is supported by Iran. Iraqi leaders say that in reality, the attack […]
Image: EMMA LEE / WHYY Temple’s international student population faces unexpected challenges as classes are moved online and campus services cut back due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The virus, which has hit nearly 150,000 globally and killed over 5,000 as of March 14, first affected Temple students in late February when classes for Temple […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Russian Far East Attracts Rebels, Renegades by Hal Conte The Far Eastern Hectare Program, which offers 2.5 acres of free land to those who want to move to the most sparsely populated regions of the Russian Federation, has provided refuge for those Russians who oppose government policy. Sergei Lunin, an anarchist, recently […]
Photo: CDC on Unsplash If you’ve been reading the news the past few weeks, you’re probably aware of how the recent outbreak of a strain of the coronavirus has led to an increase in racism and suspicion against Chinese people. Even some U.S. government officials have appeared to react with glee to the coronavirus, with […]
Left Forms New Spanish Government by Hal Conte Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez was officially approved by parliament on Tuesday as the head of the country’s first coalition government since the country’s 1936-39 civil war with 167 votes in favor and 165 against. The administration, which consists of Sanchez’s center-left PSOE and the populist-left Podemos […]
It’s in headlines, on social media, and is a normal word in everyday conversations. But have you seriously ever thought about the word “problematic” as the opposite of consciousness towards representation and identity, in its own right? And rare is the piece of pop culture or political discourse to escape it entirely. Mixed-ish? Problematic. Disney+? […]
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Protests And Strikes Against French President Macron Over Pension Reform by Hal Conte Plans by French President Emmanuel Macron to reform France’s pensions code, which includes 40 separate plans, into a single system, have run into quicksand as CGT trade unions, public sector workers and yellow vest protestors have demonstrated in […]
