- The Danger Of DuPont Chemical Contamination
- The Ghost Of Biafra: 51 Years After, The Flames Still Burns
- Nigeria: How Northerners Falsify Polio Result For UNICEF, WHO
- Nigeria: APC in disarray ahead of 2019 as Buhari disagree with party’s NEC
- Nigeria: Fear grip APC, PDP as SDP emerges third force
- Nigeria’s Health Ministry and How It Manipulates Citizens To Make Money
Lagos: Nigeria’s Economic Hub And A Hell-Hole For The Poor
Weekend Review: US/Mexico Reach Deal to Avoid Tariffs
Israel on Course for New Elections After Coalition Talks Crumble
Weekend Review: 12 Dead in Another Mass Shooting
Weekend Review: UK Theresa May Bows Out
Weekend Review: Alabama Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban
Israel on Course for New Elections After Coalition Talks Crumble
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lukid party tied with the opposition Blue and White party during April elections and were expected to be able to form a coalition government. However, Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament late last week after Netanyahu failed to do so. This is the first time in the history of Israel […]
Weekend Review: UK Theresa May Bows Out
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced her resignation as Conservative leader, effective June 7. May tearfully shared her “deep regret” that she was not able to secure a deal for Brexit, in spite of her repeated efforts to do so. She shared that she was “the second female prime minister, but certainly not the […]
Mueller’s Report Released As Trump Look for Vindication
This morning, a redacted version of the report prepared by Special Counsel Robet Mueller regarding 2016 Russian interference was made available on the website for the U.S. Department of Justice. CNN is providing live updates as the report is being analyzed. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer have issued […]
Brexit Continues To Cause Chaos In The United Kingdom
“Lawmakers seeking a way out of the country’s Brexit morass on Monday rejected four alternatives to the government’s unpopular European Union divorce deal that would have softened or even halted Britain’s departure,” the Associated Press (AP) reported after the British Parliament rejected a new wave of Brexit proposals earlier in the week, continuing the years-long […]
New Zealand’s New Gun Laws, Do Citizens Support Them?
After a gruesome mass shooting event fueled by Islamophobia took the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers at two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the country immediately sprang into action to enact new gun legislation to prevent another similar tragedy from happening. Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern of the Social Democratic Labour Party, immediately […]
Benjamin Netanyahu Faces Corruption Charges As Israeli Elections Draw Near
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges arising from three separate corruption investigations, pending a hearing, Israel’s attorney general announced Thursday evening,” CNN reported on February 28th putting an end to months-long speculation surrounding the matter. An added element to the corruption charges is their timing, Israeli […]
U.S. And Saudi’s Lobby To Kill EU “Dirty Money Blacklist”
On Friday, the European Union (EU) member states rejected a proposal from the European Commission to regulate financial operations with a list of 23 countries including Saudi Arabia and a few U.S. jurisdictions. The commission adopted the list in order to better identify and prevent “money laundering and terrorist financing risks” for the E.U. The […]
Hungry Electorate, Vote Buying, And Nigeria’s Money Bags Corrupt Politicians
The Nigeria General Elections have had the citizens divided into chaotic classes of choice, preferences, and opinions. The electorate, in the firm clinch of their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, has, so far, declared themselves the winner of the preferential debates. And they are right. The PVC is the primary object of the voter’s electoral decisions, […]
The Turbulent Brexit Week For Theresa May
“MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU on 29 March. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which could trigger a general election,” reported BBC earlier in the week explaining the ongoing […]
Shutdown Has No End In Sight, Affected Workers Continue To Suffer
“The showdown between Trump and newly empowered Democrats will only end when both sides have an incentive to move. Right now, all the political forces that could bring the two sides together are flowing in opposite directions, as the political significance of the moment suddenly raises the stakes in their showdown over funding for Trump’s […]
Israel on Course for New Elections After Coalition Talks Crumble
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lukid party tied with the opposition Blue and White party during April elections and were expected to be able to form a coalition government. However, Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament late last week after Netanyahu failed to do so. This is the first time in the history of Israel […]
Ceasefire Between Israel And Palestine Did Not Last Long, Again
On May 6th of this year, the international community was relieved when a ceasefire was announced between Israel in Palestine. The latest round of fighting and artillery exchanges resulted in the deaths of 27 Palestinians and 4 Israelis. The bloody weekend in May was the worst exchange between the two nations since July – August […]
Rhetoric Escalation Between US And Iran Is A Dangerous Sign
“U.S. allies involved in operations in the Middle East appear uninterested in the increasingly bellicose rhetoric from the White House and Pentagon regarding Iran,” Military Times reported earlier in the week after the Trump administration within the United States began increasing their rhetoric against Iran. Reporting from the outlet continued, “Germany and the Netherlands suspended […]
Mueller’s Report Released As Trump Look for Vindication
This morning, a redacted version of the report prepared by Special Counsel Robet Mueller regarding 2016 Russian interference was made available on the website for the U.S. Department of Justice. CNN is providing live updates as the report is being analyzed. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer have issued […]
Weekend Review: US Says Family Reunification Could Take 2 Years
The U.S. Justice Department will need to review approximately 47,000 cases of children who were taken into government custody at the southern border between July 2017 and June 2018 in order to attempt family reunification. A Friday court filing revealed the Trump administration anticipates that sorting through those cases in order to reunite separated families […]
Brexit Continues To Cause Chaos In The United Kingdom
“Lawmakers seeking a way out of the country’s Brexit morass on Monday rejected four alternatives to the government’s unpopular European Union divorce deal that would have softened or even halted Britain’s departure,” the Associated Press (AP) reported after the British Parliament rejected a new wave of Brexit proposals earlier in the week, continuing the years-long […]
Climate Change Disasters Largely Ignored In Africa And Midwest
Last week Caracal Reports published an article discussing the after-effects of Cyclone Idai which ravaged Mozambique in southern Africa. “Mozambique’s Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia said the number of people in makeshift camps after a powerful cyclone Idai in Mozambique has risen by 18,000 to 128,000 but the death toll remains roughly unchanged at […]
Weekend Review: Trump Celebrates End to “Collusion Delusion”
President Trump has claimed victory in the conclusion of Robert Mueller’s investigation, telling a crowd at a rally in Michigan that “the collusion delusion is over.” Trump also told supporters that the special counsel “completed its report and found no collusion and no obstruction” — a statement which is not entirely accurate. Within days of […]
Tensions In Venezuela Increase, Russian Troops Present
In late January Caracal Reports published an article detailing the constitutional crisis in Venezuela after opposition leader Juan Guaido swore himself in as interim President. An excerpt of that piece follows which details the tension surrounding the situation: The situation in Venezuela remains contentious, especially with most of the military reportedly backing Maduro. Outlets have […]
Syrian Democratic Forces Says ISIS Loses Last Stronghold
On Saturday the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reported the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) lost its final stronghold in Syria. If accurate this would bring an end to the self-proclaimed caliphate declared in 2014. The SDF as a coalition of Arab and Kurdish soldiers backed British, French, and United States special forces […]
Condoning White Supremacy: How The Media Rushed To Excuse Covington Catholic Incident
Last week by the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital, a standoff between students from Covington Catholic high school and Native Americans threw America into a racial whirlwind. For a moment, it seemed like everyone had chosen a side and was ready to go to war over who was right and who was wrong. Initially, […]
Gun Violence And The Jazmine Barnes Story
Children and Gun Violence: Jazmine Barnes 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes and her three sisters accompanied their mother to the store in their pajamas in the early morning on December 30. The sun hadn’t risen when they headed out for breakfast supplies and someone opened fire on their vehicle near the store. Jazmine’s mother, LaPorsha Washington, was […]
Why Gentrification Needs To Be tackled At its Source In NYC
“Shabby, cottages have been taken over and have become elegant expensive residences… Once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts, it goes on rapidly, until all of the original working-class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed.” This 1964 quote from Ruth Glass, a British sociologist, is the first to coin […]
George H.W. Bush: A Life of Service
George Herbert Walker Bush, America’s 41st President, will be memorialized on Wednesday in the Nation’s Capital after passing away on November 30 at the age of 94. Roads are expected to be closed in the Metropolitan area as the late President is taken to the Washington National Cathedral for a 90-minute funeral. From there, his […]
Amazon’s HQ2 And What It May Mean For New York
This November the city of New York reached a deal with e-commerce behemoth Amazon that will see them build a second headquarters, “HQ2,” in the Long Island City area of Queens. It’s the largest economic development project in the history of the state and was hard won against the likes of New Jersey and others, […]
Winnie Mandela’s Legacy: A Clarion Call For Every African Woman
Last month, the world was awakened by the demise of a foremost South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela – Mandela. Fondly known as the ” Mother of the Nation ” by her supporters, apparently because of her tacit involvement in anti-apartheid South Africa struggles, or perhaps because […]
A close-look into the anarchist epicenter of Greece
Nestled in the boroughs of Greece’s capital city, between mount Lycabettus and the landmark archeological museum, Exarchia stands out. This curious neighborhood attracts many visitors who often, themselves, stand out as they are easy to spot due to their bewildered expressions while they survey the outlandish street art. Art which dwellers have grown used to […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Added Ibrahim Prize Award To Her Accolades
This week, 80-year-old Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf –Liberia’s first elected female head of state and 24th former president, was awarded the $5 million Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership. Sirleaf is also a previously renowned recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, along with her Liberian compatriot Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, for their […]
Why Senator Kamala Harris Could Be The First Black Female U.S President
The night of November 8th, 2016 is one that will live in the memories of many across America for decades to come. It was a day that altered the lives and perspectives of almost everyone who participated in the 200-year-old tradition of choosing the leader of the free world, The United States Of America. That […]
In The birthplace Of Boko Haram, Feminism Prevails
Beyond Boko Haram’s reach; love and feminism flourish in a place known for its ill-treatment of young women and girls; kidnapped and turned into sex slaves, then passed around to fighters like prizes – forcing them into battle. Some tie suicide bombs to their bodies and are ordered to strike the gates at the University […]
Biafra Vs One Nigeria
Caracal Reports Interview With Biafra Leaders New York
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