Ukraine, which is de facto at war with Russia, got a five-year gas transit contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom, and will likely get a 25 percent discount for direct supplies of Russian natural...
Around the world, some products are illegally created as copies of others to take advantage of their image, but the Venezuelan government has gone much further. After Kellogg's announced in 2018 that...
Another Friday found me participating in the Climate Strike protest of the town I study in. Another gathering of younger and older people. The same chants with the familiar warm-blooded passion of...
Let me begin by stating the obvious. For the majority of his life, US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg passed as a straight white male. This is how others viewed him, and thus treated him...
In mid-November, a tweet went viral that was asking people to detail what their proudest accomplishments of the decade were. We were just weeks away from the start of a new decade and people were...
Wow, well. 2019 was certainly… a year. And 2009-2019 was certainly a decade! While we’re packing away our end-of-the-year lists and end-of-the-decade memorials (and 2016, shudder), it’s time to...
2019 was the year in which members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) went on strike for the first time in its 103-year history. More than 15,000 nurses in Northern Ireland took to the picket...
Throughout the 2010s, the Syrian Arab Republic was ripped apart by a vicious civil conflict that killed at least half-a-million people, displaced and made refugees of millions more and led to the...
Who told the Nigerian DSP and the bulk of Nigerian populace that dreadlocks and tattoos were foreign to our culture? The popular #EndSARS campaign began in December of 2017, after a Twitter user...
In 1972, the Indian state of Maharashtra was stricken with a drought that decimated crop yields and put 25 million Indians at risk of starvation. After years of plentiful rainfall and experimentation...