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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Illustration Credit: Tia Marchiselli Half Of Global Beaches Could Be Gone By 2100 by Hal Conte Even if greenhouse gas emissions are mitigated, more than a third of global beaches could end up as casualties of human-created climate change by the end of the 21st century, according to a new article in the prestigious scientific […]
Illustration: Tia Marchiselli Vote For Leader Of U.K. Opposition Labour Begins by Hal Conte The U.K. opposition Labour Party is set to choose its next leader as candidates Rebecca Long Bailey, Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy have been selected to appear on the final ballot to be mailed to Party members. Long Bailey is considered […]
Court Battle Over Booted Bannon Boot Camp Simmers In Italy by Hal Conte Former Trump advisor and alt-right godfather Steve Bannon’s attempts to establish a “gladiator school” for the alt-right in an Italian monastery has become intertwined in government and church debates after a move by the Ministry of Culture to evict Bannon’s group from […]
Deadlock In Ireland Election As Nationalist Left Sinn Fein Rises by Hal Conte A surge by the pro-reunification Sinn Fien led to a three-way tie between the nationalist party, current Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael, and the center-right Fianna Fail, leading to a situation where none of the three parties – all of which […]
Illustration: Tia Marchiselli Arab League Rejects Trump Palestine Deal by Hal Conte Members of the Arab League trashed Trump’s proposed Israel-Palestine agreement as “unjust,” and called for a two-state solution on Saturday as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dramatically held up a map showing the gradual annexation of Palestinian land since before 1948 and stated […]
Poland Spats With Putin Over War History by Hal Conte Poland and Russia are engrossed in a new battle over the history of World War II, which Russians call the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin has in recent months stressed the crucial role that the USSR played in the defeat of the Nazi […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Putin Announces Major Russia Constitution Revamp by Hal Conte Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a little-known tax official as prime minister and called for a referendum to rewrite Russia’s constitution to increase the power of the State Duma and decrease that of the presidency. The move is viewed by many analysts […]
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 […]
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 […]
