Month: November 2019

Denouncing the “strangling” of the Venezuelan economy via sanctions and demanding the Trump administration allow the South American country to determine its own fate, pro-democracy protesters marched through Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand, “Hands Off Venezuela!” The demonstration came seven weeks after the Trump administration recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president, rebuking […]

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A top United Nations official on human rights said Tuesday that the recent escalation in attacks on reproductive rights in the U.S. must be categorized in the same way as other many attacks on basic rights—as part of an “extremist hate” campaign. Click Here: Crystal Palace Shop “We have not called it out in the […]

New year, new workouts with bae. After ringing in 2018 with on-again flame Justin Bieber, in Cabo San Lucas, Selena Gomez paired up with the “Sorry” hitmaker to sweat out their New Year’s resolutions together. Back in Los Angeles after the holidays, the musical powerhouses headed out in West Hollywood on Wednesday for a private […]

The irony of this old New Yorker cartoon by Eric Lewis is so precise I haven’t been able to get it out of my head for two years. The speaker is the planet Saturn, clad in doctor’s garb — a stethoscope circling his forehead — giving the bad news to a sick and miserable-looking Earth: “I’m afraid […]

After decades of an uneasy and sometimes violent power-sharing agreement with Pakistan over the region of Kashmir, India on Monday revoked Article 370 of its constitution that allowed that agreement, paving the way to annexing the region’s Jammu and Kashmir territory.  The legislative move, which was driven by Home Minister Amit Shah, came after a weekend […]

Many thousands of people took to the streets across the United Kingdom on Wednesday evening—including crowds in central London who surrounded the Palace of Westminster—demanding the end of efforts to suspend Parliament launched earlier in the day by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “If Boris Johnson thinks he can suspend parliament and force through no deal […]

The Extinction Rebellion movement kicked off a week of marches, demonstrations, and peaceful civil disobedience across the U.S. and around the world on Monday to demand “systemic changes to stop global warming while there’s still time left.” “Those who are most vulnerable and least responsible for this crisis are the ones who are suffering the […]

Kabul reacted with outrage and demanded clarification Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he has military plans that could wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the Earth,” killing millions of people. Following Trump’s remarks, the office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in a statement that Afghanistan “will never allow any foreign power to […]