THE UNJUST WEIGHT OF THE TERRORIST LABEL ON ACTIVISM This month, as we commemorate the signing of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 signed on March 3, 1995 and the International Day of Action Against Large Dams annually held on March 14, we acknowledge the burden carried by indigenous peoples human rights defenders as we…
The corpses of eight migrants have been found after a boat accident off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast. AP reports the eight were suspected to be from Asian countries. Prosecutors in the southern state of Oaxaca said a survivor was found. The corpses were found near a beach in Playa Vicente. The town is 250 miles…
The ex-wife of Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott’s organization, Yield Giving, has given $2 million to the Normal-based The Immigration Project. The grant is part of Yield Giving’s Open Call initiative, which aims to award US non-profits that help underserved communities $640 million in grant money. The Immigration Project was just one of the…
To reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition, a Filipino villager was nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time. CTV News reports that Ruben Enaje was nailed to the cross in San Pedro Cutud. He said he would pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea….
Has the third world war started?I think so?From antiballistic missiles countering ballistic;Nukes threatening to erase our earth;Rat-a-tat of AK-47;Ricocheting of ak-74;Hunger widespread where there should be plenty! Man is insane!If he wasn’t;He would have seen needfor peace! War everywhere,who benefits?Of course, arm sellers are smilingto the banks;Power wielders too will havetheir craving;Unobvious to a fact…
Nigeria is a reporter’s delight, any day. Of course, the reading public will normally enjoy the news made by newsmakers. They will even debate and argue on some of the news. Like the goofs! Chief Obafemi Awolowo was tried for treasonable felony in the first republic. The trial judge was a Yoruba man like the…
For the avoidance of any doubt about the topic, in as much as I believe Nigeria could exist as a (con)federal entity, I believe we still exist as a collection of glorified nations. Those who have that belief would hardly be surprised by the goings on in Nigeria. To make matters worse, the colonial military…
