China’s National Narcotics Control Commission claimed that approximately 14 million drug addicts lived in China in 2014, “a number that the agency acknowledges is a serious undercount,” according to Bloomberg…
The myth of privacy: EU lauds Snowden
While many Americans have no clue who Edward Snowden is or why he’s being pursued by the United States government, the European Union recently passed a non-binding resolution to shield…
US soldiers witness Afghan sex abuse
An investigation by the New York Times revealed that it was U.S. policy for soldiers to ignore the sexual abuse of young boys by Afghan officials. After the 2001 invasion…
DEA cut deal with Sinaloa Cartel
While the U.S. Government has spent—and is currently spending—billions of dollars in the War on Drugs in Mexico, the real cost of the war is measured in blood. The New…
U.S. bombs hospital in Afghanistan
22 people, including three children, are now dead after a bombing at a Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) hospital in the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan. The attack occurred…
Native resistance to Canadian pipelines
Like the U.S., Canada has a long, sordid history of settler-colonialism. Exploitation of Indigenous nations continues today as nearly a dozen different energy corporations attempt to build pipelines through unceded…
Russia’s war in Syria
The BBC reported that, since 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people and has driven approximately 11 million Syrians from their homes, resulting…