Yearly Archives: 2021
State trooper charged with stealing heroin from evidence room
Brian Rickard allegedly stole heroin from the Troop R, Honesdale evidence room before ingesting the narcotic at work and at home.
Wealthy Americans get paid leave. Shouldn’t the rest?
The fight to guarantee paid sick time and family leave faces an uphill battle, but advocates aren’t giving up.
The last progressive
Thus far, however, Biden’s demonstrated negligible aptitude for restoring even an approximation of ordinariness to American life.
Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more organic food
The U.S. isn't currently setting the bar high for growing its organic sector. Across the Atlantic, Europe has a much more focused, aggressive strategy.
‘Infuriating’ report reveals ‘breathtaking cover-up’ of US airstrike that killed Syrian civilians
"The U.S. needs to leave Syria ASAP. Our military presence there makes us LESS safe!"
Glasgow pact slammed for betraying the global poor who suffer most from the climate...
“Once again, the UN climate summit just prioritized the voices of the privileged and not those that are most affected by the climate crisis.”
More tragedy in Afghanistan is just beginning after the US withdrawal
Afghan civilians have always disproportionately experienced the effects of war and they will now also disproportionately experience what may be an even worse peace — if one can even call it that.
As climate emergency worsens, freak lightning storm sends snow, scorpion plague on Egypt’s Aswan
High winds blew the deadly Egyptian black, fat-tailed scorpions from the surrounding desert into the city and into people’s homes.
The gap between climate rhetoric and reality: The Fossil Fuelled 5
Among those five wealthy countries analyzed, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway and Australia, all plan to approve and subsidize new fossil fuel projects despite their claims of leading in the climate fight, the report concluded.
Why are Moderna’s billionaires airbrushing scientists out of the vaccine patent picture?
Moderna has now filed for a patent on the key vaccine breakthrough these scientists helped produce.