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Yahya Jammeh, the autocratic ruler of The Gambia, has moved to resist his presidential election defeat, sending armed soldiers to take control of the electoral commission headquarters and filing a petition to the supreme court as a delegation of African leaders urged him to stand down… Making up the most important delegation ever to descend… Read more.
Around 21,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two months, as Burmese forces launched what one UN official says is ‘getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity’ [aka ‘clearance operations’ or religious cleansing]. TIME reports from the Bangladesh border, where the full horror is only just… Read more.
The issue is whether Russia intervened/interfered. Period. The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to… Read more.
You’d be forgiven for viewing nominations for the 59th Grammy Awards, announced Tuesday morning, as a battle between two powerhouse singers: Beyoncé, whose Lemonade leads the field with nine, and Adele, whose 25 has been a sales juggernaut since its release late last year. Both received Album Of The Year nods… Given how many genres the Grammys attempt to… Read more.
Participation of the “demos” (aka ordinary people) in representative democracies should be limited to electing a suitable person to represent their interests – at all levels of government. The sooner leaders in Western democracies realize and foster this, the better. Never mind that far too many ordinary people can’t be bothered to participate even to this… Read more.
Energy Transfer Partners of Dallas is the big oil company behind the infamous Dakota Access Pipeline. It was so certain of its power and influence, it had no reservations about drilling its pipeline right through sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota. Of course, given the way whites have systematically dispossessed,… Read more.
Well, Trump’s back-to-the-future presidency might have at least one fringe benefit: Read more.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an estimated 1.2 million people aged 13 and over are living with HIV infection in the United States. Blacks, who are 13 percent of the population, continue to account for the most infections – with 17,670 diagnoses in 2015 alone; whereas whites, who are 72 percent, accounted for 10,509,… Read more.
In light of the recent trend set by Angela Merkel of Germany and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Bachelet’s election [in Chile] would be encouraging to those of us who welcome the seepage of womanpower through the crevices of political and corporate governance around the world… Here’s to ‘the fairer sex’ – not only as indispensable guardians of… Read more.
