Monthly Archives: October 2020

Palestinian Protester Vows to Continue Hunger Strike After Waking from Coma

Palestinian hunger striker Mohammad Allan, whose case pits doctors and activists against the Israeli government, awoke from a four-day coma on Tuesday and immediately pledged to resume fasting—and to refuse water—if Israel did not resolve his case within 24 hours. Allan, who is being held at Barzilai Medical Center, is demanding an end to his […]

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Europe Squabbles While Refugees Die

UNITED NATIONS – As tens of thousands of refugees continue to flee conflict-ridden countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Western European governments and international humanitarian organisations are struggling to cope with a snowballing humanitarian crisis threatening to explode. Hungary is building a fence to ward off refugees.  Slovakia says it will accept only Christian […]

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Fringe No More: Sanders Takes Major Lead in Key Battleground States

‘Fringe candidate’ no more, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders leads former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among likely Democratic presidential primary voters in the battleground states of Iowa and New Hampshire, according to new polling released on Sunday. The new CBS/YouGov poll finds U.S. Sen. Sanders (Vt.) with 52 percent support among Democratic primary voters in […]

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Diplomatic Campaign Ramps Up to Free 'Mandela of the Maldives'

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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WWE adds Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini to Board of Directors

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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To Achieve Highly-Touted Development Goals, End Business-as-Usual, Groups Say

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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Landmark Look at US Charter System Reveals Waste, Fraud, 'Ghost Schools'

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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Leading Fight Against Money in Politics, Maine Voters Back Clean Elections

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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New Docs Reveal NSA Never Ended Bulk Email Collection, Just Hid It Better

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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Ellison: Obama deserves blame for Democratic losses

Click:gold loan Auckland Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said former President Obama is partially to blame for the Democrats’ poor showing at the polls in 2016. Ellison, now the deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, blamed Obama for ignoring party politics while he was in office, which he said had put the president’s legacy at […]

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