Month: April 2022

Tania Aubid began her hunger strike on Valentine’s Day. “Valentine’s Day is about love and having that love for your partner — but for me “The Indigenous-led fight to stop the Line 3 oil pipeline expansion in Minnesota, explained”

North Korea’s second missile test in a week is increasing the pressure on President Joe Biden to respond, inching the nuclear-armed state further up the “Why North Korea is ramping up missile tests again”

“In Guam, even the dead are dying,” Chamorro author and activist Julian Aguon writes in his new book The Properties of Perpetual Light. Aguon, a “The generational grief of colonization”

President Joe Biden all but said during his first formal press conference on Thursday that the United States would likely extend its 20-year military campaign “Biden’s stated rationale for extending America’s war in Afghanistan is weak”

As the world careens toward a climate catastrophe, the biggest banks in the world are still financing fossil fuels in the trillions of dollars. That’s “The world’s biggest banks have pumped trillions into fossil fuel projects in the past 5 years”

The Biden administration has officially committed to Covax, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world, including to lower-income countries. The “Why Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough”

Myanmar saw its largest nationwide protests since the military coup earlier this month, with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in the streets and businesses “Myanmar’s pro-democracy protest movement is strengthening”

Facebook’s sudden move on Wednesday to cut Australians off from the news (and the rest of the world from Australian news) was as surprising as “Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.”

The Biden administration has begun allowing tens of thousands of asylum seekers who were forced to wait in Mexico for a chance to obtain protection “Biden is allowing asylum seekers caught by Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program to cross the border”

President Joe Biden has been presented with three broad options for how to prolong or end America’s involvement in the 20-year Afghanistan War — and “Leave now, extension, or indefinite stay: Biden’s 3 bad Afghanistan options”