Chinese meth wars and the war on drugs

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…

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…