Weekend Review: China Forms World’s Largest Trading Alliance
On Sunday, fifteen countries including China cemented a pact to form the largest global trading bloc to date, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The deal took more than eight years to negotiate and was signed virtually to adhere to pandemic safety measures. This partnership includes many Southeast Asian countries, as well as South Korea, […]
Weekend Review: Body Cam Shows Officer Lack Of Empathy During George Floyd’s Last Moment
Newly released footage from a body camera worn by former Officer Tou Thao during George Floyd’s arrest highlights the startling lack of empathy shown by another former officer towards Floyd while he was dying in police custody. “This is why you don’t do drugs, kids,” Thao told a growing crowd of disturbed onlookers, who pleaded […]
Weekend Review: The Ongoing Fight Against Brutality
Justice has been somewhat slow for Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain, but the officers involved in their respective deaths are finally under intensifying scrutiny as the fight against brutality is forcing legislative changes across the country. Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, who was fired for his role in the death of Breonna Taylor in […]
Protests Continue Across The US
Protests and riots continue to rage across the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. Floyd was a black man in Minneapolis who was arrested for a non-violent crime and was unarmed. One of the four officers involved has been charged in his death. Protests began over Memorial Day weekend and […]
Trump Headlines March for Life Rally In Washington DC
On Friday afternoon, President Trump became the first sitting President to attend the annual March For Life in person. Previously, the highest-ranking White House member to attend the pro-life rally was Vice President Mike Pence, who has attended the march since 2017. Other presidents have delivered messages over the phone. The March for Life is […]
Fallout From Trump Ordered Assassination Has Significant Ramifications In Middle East
Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men within the theocratic power structure within Iran. To those loyal to the Ayatollah’s, he was seen as a champion of the revolution and a man of the people. He led the elite and controversial Revolutional Guards’ Quds Force and led Iranian military operations […]
Trump’s Betrayer Of Kurds Is A Blood Stain On The US
United States President Donald Trump’s decision to announce the withdrawal of US military forces from northern Syria has ushered in a new tragic phase of the Syria conflict. Turkey has long since looked at ethnic Kurds with disdain, with credible reports of human rights violations being levied against the minority group within Turkish borders. Being […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
