• After Cambodia Digs Out Survivors, Eyes Cast Toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative
• Ted Cruz Demands More Tax Cuts For Rich
• ‘Ghost Students,’ Embezzlement and Deregulation: The Shadow World of Charter Schools
• Air Raid By ‘Unknown Source’ Kills Civilian in Syria
• Trump Administration Dealt Multiple Blows to Honey Bees This Month
• Five Key Points From China’s New Defense White Paper
• Student Deaths, Violence Causes Sudan to Suspend School and Power Sharing Talks
• Star-Studded Lineup Announced to Help Fight Poverty at Global Citizen Festival
• Major Investment Bank To Divest From Fossil Fuel Projects
• Palestinian Authority Suspends All Agreements with Israel
• North Korea Launches Missiles Despite US Optimism Over Denuclearization Talks
• The Death of the Moderate Position in the Abortion Debate
• Kushner Owns Thousands Of Baltimore Apartments, Some Infested With Rodents

After Cambodia Digs Out Survivors, Eyes Cast Toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative

China’s Belt Road Initiative has brought lucrative Chinese investment into Cambodia, but at what cost for locals? In Sihanoukville, Cambodia, in June excavators carefully scooped piles of bent steel and rubble, moving it aside under the floodlights from a collapsed building. For 60 hours, neighbors and public officials crowded around, watching as emergency responders and […]

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Ted Cruz Demands More Tax Cuts For Rich

“It would truly be something if Trump cuts taxes for the rich by executive fiat right after cutting nutrition assistance for the poor by executive fiat.” Ted Cruz led a group of 20 Senate Republicans in urging Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to bypass Congress and deliver a tax cut to investors by indexing capital gains […]

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‘Ghost Students,’ Embezzlement and Deregulation: The Shadow World of Charter Schools

Lack of regulation in the charter school industry is turning education into the hottest get rich quick scheme about town. One of the most crucial differences between charter schools and traditional public schools is how they are regulated. Charter schools are not subject to the same amount of laws regarding financial transparency as traditional public […]

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Air Raid By ‘Unknown Source’ Kills Civilian in Syria

After an air raid killed a civilian Tuesday night confusion abounds as to who exactly is responsible. Official sources in Syria confirmed on Wednesday the killing of a civilian in the village of Rashidia, an outskirt of the southern Qamishly area, which is under the Syrian army control. Who conducted the air-raid remains unclear though […]

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Trump Administration Dealt Multiple Blows to Honey Bees This Month

“Proposing to register sulfoxaflor for use on bee-attractive crops, in the midst of an ongoing pollinator crisis, is the height of irresponsibility.” (By Beyond Pesticides) Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a decision to register new uses for the bee-toxic pesticide sulfoxaflor. The decision closely followed a USDA announcement halting the Honey Bee Colonies Survey, […]

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Five Key Points From China’s New Defense White Paper

“If anyone dares to separate Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will certainly fight, resolutely defending the country’s sovereign unity and territorial integrity.” On Wednesday, July 24, China released its white paper on defense titled “China’s National Defense in The New Era,” which largely highlighted the country’s surge in military spending and blamed the U.S. […]

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Student Deaths, Violence Causes Sudan to Suspend School and Power Sharing Talks

Only weeks after Sudan celebrated the signing of a power-sharing agreement between Sudan’s military and opposition groups, five high schoolers were killed by Sudan’s military while protesting.  Sudanese transitional authorities decided on Tuesday to suspend schooling across Sudan, in the wake of the killing of five high school children on Monday. Talks between the Transitional […]

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Star-Studded Lineup Announced to Help Fight Poverty at Global Citizen Festival

Global Citizen Festival aims to engage citizens to end extreme poverty by 2030, with a little help from some celebrity friends. The eighth annual Global Citizen Festival in New York City, which aims to eradicate extreme poverty through advocacy and activism, just announced their star-studded lineup. Scheduled to perform on September 28 in Central Park […]

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Major Investment Bank To Divest From Fossil Fuel Projects

“The EIB’s proposal to end financing for fossil fuels by 2020 is a massive step forward in climate leadership. With this move, the world’s largest multilateral lender is now poised to leave oil, gas and coal in the past.” The European Investment Bank, one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions, announced on Friday that […]

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Palestinian Authority Suspends All Agreements with Israel

“The demolition is a flagrant violation of those agreements and is null and void.” The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) president, Mahmoud Abbas, told P.A. officials and other Palestinian leaders during a meeting last Thursday, that the P.A. will stop abiding by past peace agreements with Israel. The P.A.’s unilateral decision came in the wake of Israeli […]

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North Korea Launches Missiles Despite US Optimism Over Denuclearization Talks

“This is the big problem with having a showman, reality TV star running the American side because he doesn’t actually know anything about what’s negotiated.” Last Thursday, North Korea tested a new type of short-range ballistic missile under the direct supervision of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The missile test, North Korea’s state press claimed, […]

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The Death of the Moderate Position in the Abortion Debate

An abstinence only program in Montana told teens that “condoms cause cancer,” birth control pills are only 20% effective and cause cervical cancer and sterility. The American experiment is a beautifully chaotic thing. Opposing sides go at it and are supposed to hammer out a compromise in the process – getting to a position both […]

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Kushner Owns Thousands Of Baltimore Apartments, Some Infested With Rodents

“There’s a certain irony in hearing the president attacking a city and region when his own son-in-law was directly involved in creating the conditions where that quality of life was threatened.” President Trump targeted Baltimore in his most recent Twitter outburst, describing Rep. Elijah Cummings as a “brutal bully” and calling his district, Maryland’s Seventh, […]

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