Month: <span>October 2020</span>

In a move that could dramatically spike international tensions and escalate the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the Prime Minister of the Ukraine government in Kiev on Friday submitted legislation to Parliament declaring intention to join the western military alliance of NATO and longer-term ambitions to actually join the European Union. Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk submitted…

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Climate activists in Everett, Washington on Tuesday offered a “sampling of the resistance” that could be on its way if the fossil fuel industry continues to threaten the future of communities in the Northwest. Working with the environmental and social justice group Rising Tide Seattle, five Everett and Seattle residents staged a protest at the…

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Click:Wholesale Chlorine Float Ferguson, Missouri has become a flashpoint of anger and resistance to police racism and violence in America. But a new study from USA Today finds that, when it comes to racial disparities in arrests, what the people of Ferguson face is status quo. In fact, at least 1,581 police departments across the…

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Uniqlo is helping more than 10,000 people across India, Cambodia, Malawi and Madagascar attain clean and drinkable water through its partnership with nonprofit charity: water. The retailer first partnered with charity: water in 2019, donating the proceeds of its 10 euro cent fee to consumers for paper bags to the organization. This initiative has not…

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A new video that appears to show the immediate aftermath of Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9 corroborates earlier witness statements that the unarmed black teenager was surrendering to Officer Darren Wilson when he was killed. The footage, released by CNN on Thursday, shows two construction workers reacting to the shooting…

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We can not address climate change without putting an immediate end to fracking. That declaration is the overarching message of a report published Tuesday, just days ahead of the People’s Climate March and the UN Climate Summit in New York City. Put forth by the environmental watchdog Food & Water Watch, The Urgent Case for…

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After being set up last night, Bayley vs. Sasha Banks is now official for Hell in a Cell. It was confirmed on this week’s episode of Talking Smack that Bayley will defend her SmackDown Women’s Championship against Banks in a Hell in a Cell match at this month’s Hell in a Cell pay-per-view. The PPV…

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday revealed that it was opening an investigation into the appearance of unapproved genetically engineered wheat in Montana. It marks the second time the USDA is issuing notice of a discovery of rogue genetically engineered (or GMO) wheat. There is no commercially-approved GMO wheat. According to a statement issued…

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In the late seventies, baby formula salesman Syed Aamir Raza, who was from Pakistan, blew the whistle on international food behemoth Nestlé for practices which, he had discovered, were causing the deaths of potentially hundreds of thousands of infants born in developing countries. Raza’s story has now been memorialized in a new feature film titled…

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Lego announced on Thursday that it would not be renewing its marketing contract with Shell, after Greenpeace campaigned for several months for the Danish toy maker to end its decades-long partnership with the oil giant. As part of its push to call on Lego to end the contract, Greenpeace created a video that depicted a…

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