Police in the United States are famous worldwide for their aggressive tactics (along with their use of “asset forfeiture” to increase revenue). We are confronted on a weekly basis with cellphone videos and stories of shootings, abuse, and deaths at the hands of police, involving primarily
In Canada and beyond, native (first nation) peoples have high rates of suicide, child abuse, alcohol, drug abuse (including solvents and gasoline), and incarceration. They have lower than average per capita income, high rates of reliance on social assistance and school abandonment. Hundreds of
One of the biggest toxic algae blooms in recent history can be seen off the West Coast of the US right now, stretching from central California to Alaska. NOAA has been mobilizing scientists and experts to take control of the situation, and publicly says marine
Since the “financial repression,” the most powerful people have only gotten more powerful. A 2013 Oxfam report found that 80 people had as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, and a few months later Forbes said the number had dropped to 67. Many of
Marcus Tullius Cicero is famous for saying essentially: “More laws equals less justice.” The fact is that irrational legislators are a sign of a failing society, be these unsound laws on Saudi or American soil. The upside to irrational laws is that they can
“The war on medical marijuana is over…Now the fight moves on to legalization of all marijuana,..this is the strongest signal we have received from Congress [that] the politics have really shifted. …” said Bill Piper, a lobbyist with the Drug Policy Alliance. Within the
Almost all of us go our entire lives without ever standing trial for crimes against humanity. Then again, most of us aren’t notorious hatemongerer Pastor Scott Lively, whose life work seems to be to ask the question: “How can I make gay people miserable across the world?”
The health and well-being of poor teenagers from many parts of the world was the main subject of global research project, titled “WAVE STUDY”, headed by Dr. Kristen Mmari, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. The study
You would think that scientists who have worked on a specific topic would be the experts to ask about how it works and should be regulated, but if you think this: you would be in disagreement with the majority of US congressmen in the House
US President Barack Obama began by promising to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions 26-28% below 2005 levels by the 2025. Chinese president Xi Jinping took the next small, but important, step of agreeing to stop China’s emissions from growing by 2030 at the latest.
