North Korea tested its first missiles since President Joe Biden took office, launching two short-range projectiles last weekend off the country’s west coast and into…
A massive ship is stuck in the Suez Canal, disrupting trade and inspiring hilarious memes
A massive container ship stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal has been blocking one of the world’s busiest waterways for over 24 hours, disrupting global…
The Indigenous-led fight to stop the Line 3 oil pipeline expansion in Minnesota, explained
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Why North Korea is ramping up missile tests again
North Korea’s second missile test in a week is increasing the pressure on President Joe Biden to respond, inching the nuclear-armed state further up the…
The generational grief of colonization
“In Guam, even the dead are dying,” Chamorro author and activist Julian Aguon writes in his new book The Properties of Perpetual Light. Aguon, a…
Biden’s stated rationale for extending America’s war in Afghanistan is weak
President Joe Biden all but said during his first formal press conference on Thursday that the United States would likely extend its 20-year military campaign…
The world’s biggest banks have pumped trillions into fossil fuel projects in the past 5 years
As the world careens toward a climate catastrophe, the biggest banks in the world are still financing fossil fuels in the trillions of dollars. That’s…
Why Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough
The Biden administration has officially committed to Covax, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world, including to lower-income countries. The…
Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.
Click:Household Anti-aging Beauty Device Facebook’s sudden move on Wednesday to cut Australians off from the news (and the rest of the world from Australian news)…
Myanmar’s pro-democracy protest movement is strengthening
Myanmar saw its largest nationwide protests since the military coup earlier this month, with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in the streets and businesses…