A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200, authorities still don’t know exactly why the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company plant exploded. Here’s what we do know: The fertilizer plant hadn’t been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. Its […]
A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200, authorities still don’t know exactly why the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company plant exploded. Here’s what we do know: The fertilizer plant hadn’t been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. Its […]
As evidence of possible chemical weapons use in Syria mounts, so do the calls for a full-scale military intervention in the now two-year-long conflict that has cost roughly 70,000 lives. President Barack Obama had said chemical attacks by regime forces on Syrian civilians would constitute a “red line” for his administration in its willingness to […]
As evidence of possible chemical weapons use in Syria mounts, so do the calls for a full-scale military intervention in the now two-year-long conflict that has cost roughly 70,000 lives. President Barack Obama had said chemical attacks by regime forces on Syrian civilians would constitute a “red line” for his administration in its willingness to […]
Leonidas Nikas is an elementary school principal in Greece. Recently, he has noticed something he wholeheartedly thought was impossible in his country — children bent over in hunger pains; children pleading to each other for food; children scouring trash cans for anything edible. “Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to see the situation […]
Leonidas Nikas is an elementary school principal in Greece. Recently, he has noticed something he wholeheartedly thought was impossible in his country — children bent over in hunger pains; children pleading to each other for food; children scouring trash cans for anything edible. “Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to see the situation […]
For a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world’s mightiest stock market to tremble. No sooner did hackers send a false Associated Press tweet reporting explosions at the White House on Tuesday than investors started dumping stocks — eventually unloading $134 billion worth. Except most of the investors weren’t human. […]
For a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world’s mightiest stock market to tremble. No sooner did hackers send a false Associated Press tweet reporting explosions at the White House on Tuesday than investors started dumping stocks — eventually unloading $134 billion worth. Except most of the investors weren’t human. […]
The North Caucasus insurgency, whose possible links with last week’s Boston Marathon bombing suspects are still being investigated, is the product of a 19-year sequence of miscalculations by the Russian leadership in its increasingly desperate efforts to retain control of the North Caucasus. What is now a pan-regional movement that operates not only in southern […]
The North Caucasus insurgency, whose possible links with last week’s Boston Marathon bombing suspects are still being investigated, is the product of a 19-year sequence of miscalculations by the Russian leadership in its increasingly desperate efforts to retain control of the North Caucasus. What is now a pan-regional movement that operates not only in southern […]
Frederick Reese Throughout the developing world, one in six children aged five to 14 years old are involved in child labor, according to the United Nations’ International Children’s’ Emergency Fund (UNICEF). It is estimated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) that there are about 215 million children under the age of 18 throughout the world […]
Frederick Reese Throughout the developing world, one in six children aged five to 14 years old are involved in child labor, according to the United Nations’ International Children’s’ Emergency Fund (UNICEF). It is estimated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) that there are about 215 million children under the age of 18 throughout the world […]
MINNEAPOLIS – “You cannot get a job. Maybe six or seven years ago you could get a cash job, now it is much harder. The situation of immigrants is a violation of basic human rights,” Manuel Fernandez, an immigrant from Central America, told Mint Press News. Like millions of undocumented immigrants or those with limited […]
MINNEAPOLIS – “You cannot get a job. Maybe six or seven years ago you could get a cash job, now it is much harder. The situation of immigrants is a violation of basic human rights,” Manuel Fernandez, an immigrant from Central America, told Mint Press News. Like millions of undocumented immigrants or those with limited […]
