Month: October 2020

Click:wps官网下载 UNITED NATIONS – As the death toll in Gaza keeps climbing – and charges of alleged war crimes against Israel keep mounting – the most powerful political body at the United Nations remains ineffective, impotent and in a state of near paralysis. Perhaps by choice. The 15-member U.N. Security Council (UNSC), the only body…

Four decades after the Vietnam War, roughly 283,000 veterans are still plagued by post-traumatic stress disorder, with few showing any progress towards recovery, according to a study released last week by the American Psychological Association. The average veteran included in the study was 67 years old. PTSD is characterized by vivid flashbacks, sleep problems, and…

U.S. grain shipments are being held up as trains carrying huge quantities of Bakken oil chug through the region, the New York Times reported Tuesday, illustrating how the booming business of moving oil by rail has negative consequences beyond safety risks. According to the Times: Such backlogs lead to canceled orders from food companies as…

Monsanto has poured $4.7 million into the campaign to defeat an initiative to label genetically modified food in Colorado. The funds went to the No on 105 Coalition, which hopes it can beat Proposition 105, one of four statewide ballot measures Colorado voters will see on their November ballots.  If passed, the measure would require…

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., announced on Thursday that he is joining the crowded race for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman. In an announcement video, Buttigieg made an indirect reference to leading DNC candidates, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), saying that solutions to rebuilding the Democratic Party “won’t…

In the face of a failed War on Drugs, a global commission composed mostly of former world leaders recommended on Tuesday that governments decriminalize and regulate the use of currently illicit drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and psychedelics. “The international drug regime is broken,” reads the report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy, whose…

They are vanishing before our very eyes. Polar bears, monarch butterflies and the North Pacific right whale are among the list of 10 American species a conservation coalition warns that our children may never see. The reason why, the Endangered Species Coalition says in its new report, is us. From climate change to the declining…

TORONTO – Canada’s tar sands oil boom may be in jeopardy and it appears the ruling Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper does not have any plan B in its ambition to remake this resource-rich country into “an energy superpower.” “This is one of the sectors that creates some of the most jobs, not…

Kaci Hickox, the Maine nurse who was forced into Ebola quarantine in New Jersey last week after treating patients in West Africa, despite testing negative for the disease, said she would not comply with Maine officials’ instructions to isolate herself for another 21 days in her hometown of Fort Kent. “You know I truly believe…

As President Barack Obama appointed an ‘Ebola czar’ and contemplated imposing restrictions on travelers coming to the U.S. from West African countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) admitted that it dropped the ball in stemming the still-spiraling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors ranging from internal politics to poor communication between infectious disease experts…