China’s Covid Protocols Threaten Its Political Status Quo

The unheard-of has happened in China: days of public protests and calls for President Xi Jinping to step down! Residents of Shanghai, China’s most populous city exploded in fury over China’s overly strict Covid lockdowns. Streets swarmed with protesters shouting, “Xi Jinping, step down! Communist Party, step down!” What [...]

Death Sentence For Protester Explodes Into Violence In Iran

The proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back” is playing out in Iran right now. In September Iran’s morality police arrested 22-year-old Masha Amini for wearing her hijab too loosely about her face. Some of her hair showing. Her arrest and subsequent death in police custody became the straw [...]

Israel And Lebanon Reach Historic Agreement

Where would you expect to see such a sight as this? People sifting through trash cans for food. Possibly in some alleys of downtrodden neighborhoods? This scene is occurring daily in what many used to refer to as “an oasis of opulence,” Beirut, Lebanon. Unfortunately, this scene is now [...]

Protests Grow More Violent After Death Of Mahsa Amini

September 13 marked a dark and ominous day in Iran. It was the day that the country’s morality police arrested 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for wearing what the police called “immodest clothing.” What was Amini’s crime? She was wearing her head scarf or hajib to loosely – some of her [...]

Violence against women Has Deep Roots in China

In June, a group of unknown men beat a group of women and kicked them in the head in the city of Tangshan. The assailants used bottles and chairs in this unprovoked attack. In January, a woman was chained by her neck in a shack. These two incidents have [...]

Mahsa Amini Dies While In Custody Of Iran’s Morality Police

How did such a senseless killing take place? It all goes back to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 which was a Shia Islamic revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. What ensued was a theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Why did it occur? It stemmed [...]

Somalia In Desperate Need Of Humanitarian Relief

Somalia, situated on the horn of Africa, is on the horns of a dilemma – looming famine. Unless this plight catches the eye of the world in the midst of the bigger headlines about the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, this impoverished nation’s pending disaster may go largely unnoticed. Martin Griffiths, the [...]

Devastating Monsoon Ravages Pakistan

Monsoons are a yearly event in Pakistan, but this year’s monsoon has left one-third of the country underwater, an area the size of Wyoming. Not only have many homes been swept away, but vital roads and bridges too have been destroyed, further adding to the chaotic state by disrupting [...]

Violence Erupts In Sudan

Anti-military protests have plagued Sudan for more than eight months ever since the military seized power from a transitional civilian-led government in October 2021. There is considerable tribal unrest in the country. The most powerful faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North is a rebel group in the South [...]

Sri Lanka Faces An Unprecedented Crises

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to resign this week as a result of a failed political system. His family has controlled politics in the country for many years, but a combination of factors has reached a climax forcing the President to step down: crippling inflation, global spikes in [...]

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