As it happens the narrative promoting the risible idea that "The Science Is Settled," and a few other trains of misinformation to keep ramping up the fear level among the general public have been rocked by the publication of The World Climate Declaration (WCD) a study and report signed by ...
What happens when a man, a person, is declared a non-person, a citizen a non-citizen, for no other reason than his genetic ancestry: the shape of his nose, or the colour of his skin. And when a man is stripped of all that makes him a man, when his daily reality takes on a su...
It also stood to reason that persons who wear Che Guevara shirts are unable to recognise an actual revolution when it happens because their fetish about revolution was based on State Capitalism and not true Socialism, and they still follow the dogma of the frames provided by those who promote ...
One of the group of refugees, a photographer called Henny Gurland,later explained: “For better or worse, we had to drag that awful thing over the mountains.” On arrival at the coastal town of Portbou, in Catalonia, the refugees learned that the Franco government had cancelled all transit...
renting or buying a home was becoming unaffordable for even an average family. A large number of refugees from Syria settled in Mersin. And then, when the war broke out in Ukraine, we had a new influx ofyabancilararriving to start their lives over. With these new (and more affluent fami...
I began to reflect on the way I could see people around me, and particularly on social media responding to the news. There were various responses that arose again and again. To go into denial and pretend everything was fine. Just a few storms… There have always been refugees… Nothing ...
Jeffrey Alper, an eighth grade cancer survivor, has learned a lot about life, but there's a lot that's brand-new, such as how to fight for himself and for the people he loves.This is a hopeful and sometimes funny story about what happens when you stop surviving and start living again...
But it’s a thing that exists and happens. Social services for elderly and lonely people should be better – of course they should – but they aren’t, and as long as people who get their social interaction from playing poker machines would otherwise be sitting at home alone, a social ...
When world events walk in, these countries all react differently. They fight over how to deal with refugees coming to their shores. They can’t agree on financial matters. They’re mad that some of them have to pony up more than others to bail out countries that are doing terribly. And...
Background on the case of Ponnampalam Kailasapillai, a native Sri Lankan seeking asylum in Canada; Shortcomings of the INS in handling asylum issues; Concerns over the use of the International refugee law; Reasons for the limited exposure of persecutions of refugees seeking asylum in the U.S...