Last week President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seventeen people. Much of the time, this award is given to people who have at best made only questionable contributions to our world, and to some who are outright bad. For example, Biden himself...
On Saturday, June 18, thousands came to the mall in Washington, D.C., to protest poverty and growing inequality in the United States, and to demand that the government take action to better the lives of millions of working and other poor people. It was organized by...
For the third time in less than fifteen years, the world faces increasing hunger, malnutrition, famine and starvation. According to recent estimates, 1.6 billion people face “food insecurity.” Of those, 323 million face “acute food insecurity.” And of those, 49...
On June 14, South Korean truck drivers won an eight-day strike for higher wages. In the city of Ulsan, production at the Hyundai Motor Company factory was cut in half due to a lack of raw materials, while at Busan, the largest port in South Korea, container traffic...
A recent investigation by The Guardian newspaper revealed frightening information about the extent of new fossil fuel projects being planned by major oil and gas companies. This is despite the United Nations’ most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
