Monthly Archive: September 2015
A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. has refused to block implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. President Obama and the EPA published the final draft of the CPP in early...
Tensions between Turkish nationalists and Kurds have exploded in recent days to the point that the leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party has warned of civil war. The escalation follows the collapse of a...
A truce that began September 1st appears to be holding in eastern Ukraine. The date coincided with the beginning of the school term – a so-called back-to-school ceasefire. Civilians are cautiously optimistic that some...
Despite a few incidents of light weapon fire, a tenuous ceasefire in eastern Ukraine seems to be holding. Local residents remain wary of the quiet, expecting the tentative peace to shatter at any moment...
A hunger strike to regarding the future of a shuttered public high school in Chicago is now in its 4th week… and is growing. On Wednesday, three more people joined the original 12 hunger...
In Zimbabwe, a Supreme Court ruling has made it easier to terminate the contracts of workers from both the private and public sectors. Thousands of workers have already received the newly-required 90 days notice...
Los Angeles County has settled a lawsuit for $1.6 million with the family of a mentally-ill young man who killed himself while in custody. The settlement follows a legally binding agreement between the county...
Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto was in damage control mode Monday after independent experts with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights blew a giant hole in the official version of what happened to 43...
Record numbers of refugees arrive in European countries with mixed asylum policies Huge protests in Guatemala ahead of presidential elections Massive pro-democracy protest in Malaysia; PM accused of misappropriating $700 million Black Lives Matter...
The humanitarian crisis unfolding across Europe deepens as record numbers of refugees continue to arrive by land and sea, fleeing violence and poverty in the war-torn Middle East, North Africa and humanitarian crises elsewhere....