Month: October 2020

Elders were dragged away by riot police on Thursday after linking arms, lying on the ground, and blocking vehicles in a bid to physically prevent the construction of a widely-opposed U.S. military base in the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan. Hundreds joined in the demonstration in front of Camp Schwab with the aim of stopping vehicles…

Click:nano satellite components Empowered by successful campus organizing at the University of Missouri, where protests over racial tensions culminated Monday in the resignation of University president Tim Wolfe, students and faculty at schools across the country are seizing their moment to amplify the call for racial justice. As CNN noted on Tuesday, “It’s not just…

Concepcion Picciotto, known to countless people as the woman who for decades maintained a peace vigil outside the White House gates, passed on Monday at a housing facility operated by N Street Village, a nonprofit that supports homeless women in Washington, D.C. Schroeder Stribling, the shelter’s executive director, said that Picciotto had recently suffered a…

Click:china small group tours Pirelli has prepared for this week’s Eifel Grand Prix by treating the Nürburgring as an all-new venue, the tyre supplier expecting a race “with many variables” on Sunday. Formula 1’s last visit to the Nürburgring dates back to 2013 and while Pirelli was already the sport’s exclusive tyre supplier back then,…

A California Democrat looking to flip a House seat in next year’s midterms believes he can appeal to both sides of the aisle — and even pitch progressive ideas to President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases…

Heightening the threat of further escalation, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of sophisticated anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria on Wednesday, saying the measure was necessary to “ensure flight safety” after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday. The S-400 missile systems will be sent to Russia’s Hemeimeem air base, located roughly 30 miles…

As the United Nations climate talks in Paris near their end, global activists on Thursday said people power needs to step in where governments are failing while announcing plans for upcoming mass mobilizations that aim to “keep fossil fuels in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy.” Acts of civil disobedience…

In a speech that included an overt jab at embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders decried the U.S. incarceration rate as an “international embarrassment” and said he considers “reforming our broken criminal justice system one of the most important things that a president of the United States can do.”…

Is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s support among women crumbling? Less than one month out from the first primary in the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders now has a 14-point edge over Clinton in New Hampshire, thanks in part to a new-found lead among the state’s women voters. Released Tuesday by Monmouth University, the…

On the same day a report from a federal watchdog found that Canada’s national energy regulator is failing to properly ensure the safety of pipelines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to subject the multi-billion dollar projects to a “climate test” that will determine their impact on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. The developments taken together provide…