In South Florida and elsewhere, extremely wealthy people have found a new hobby – buying trees they like and bringing them to their homes. For the price of a few hundred thousand dollars, the rich – mostly those in business and finance – can buy a tree from someplace...
Minutes before Derek Chauvin was finally convicted for murdering George Floyd, 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio. This barrage of killings of young Black people just as the justice system congratulates itself on holding police...
A massive new wave of COVID-19 infections has hit India, with 310,000 new infections on Thursday, April 22, and growing. Hospitals are jammed, cries for help from dying victims on social media go unanswered, oxygen supplies are running critically low, and a leak from...
Biden has announced that the U.S. military will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and New York’s World Trade Center. Does this mean that the U.S. government is no longer policing the world?...
On April 20th a Minneapolis jury returned its verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the cop who murdered George Floyd by kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. The jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and...
