October 07, 2020 / By mobanmarket
Following a United Nations ruling condemning the illegal and arbitrary imprisonment of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, the legal team for the man sometimes called ‘the Mandela of the Maldives’ announced this week it will ramp up an international diplomatic pressure campaign until he is freed. “Nasheed’s unfair trial and conviction is emblematic of a […]
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Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini was named to WWE’s Board of Directors on Monday. Since 2016, Nardini has been the company’s first CEO following after high level stints at Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL. The sometimes controversial sports media powerhouse sold a significant stake in their company to Penn National Gaming earlier this year and launched their […]
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World leaders gathered at the United Nations on Friday and adopted a set of development goals—from eradicating poverty, to achieving gender equality, and taking urgent action on climate change—but they’ll only be achievable, according to anti-poverty organizations, if we bring an end to business-as-usual. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the objectives for 2030 known as […]
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A year-long investigation by the Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy has revealed a severe dearth of public information about how federal and state taxes are being spent to fuel the charter school industry in the U.S. “Unlike truly public schools that have to account for prospective and past spending in public budgets provided to […]
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Maine voters on Tuesday reaffirmed their desire to keep the influence of big money out of politics by passing the Clean Elections Initiative, a move that campaigners say serves as a “flare to a nation” desperate to “reclaim control of our democracy” in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. According to the […]
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The National Security Agency (NSA) secretly replaced its program monitoring Americans’ emails and moved it overseas before the operation was exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013, according to new reporting. NSA officials responded to Snowden’s leaks by stating that the email records program had shut down in 2011—and in a way, it had. But newly […]
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