I was talking yesterday with a woman at HealthGuard, a water testing firm we’ve used in the past to test the water in our artesian well for contaminants. We hadn’t done it in five years because the last test...
It was on the soccer pitch that 2022 World Cup host Qatar definitively shrugged off the UAE-Saudi-led economic and diplomatic boycott of the Gulf state as the crisis entered its third year with no prospect of resolution. World soccer body...
US hostility and efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government forms parts of along and inglorious history of US intervention in Latin America going back to the seconddecade of the 19th century.In 1823 US President Monroe declared, in his...
By Alexandra Bell, James McKeon, May 16, 2019 (Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists originally published this article on March 30, 2018 under the title “Three strikes means Bolton should be out.” Given recent events, we thought it...
K.M. Seethi The Persian Gulf region has become a veritable powder keg with the United States taking a more aggressive position on Iran, while Saudi Arabia, UAE and other regional powers keep lining up behind Washington with an equally aggressive...
K.M.SEETHI Sri Lanka does not seem to have returned to its normal conditions even after six days’ of the Easter-day carnage. Panic still grew and fears of unexpected attacks were haunting people even as warnings come in different forms in...
Colombo Carnage: Ominous Signals K.M.SEETHI The day of ‘Resurrection’ became a black Sunday for hundreds in Colombo who gathered in Churches for Easter prayers. Many in nearby hotels, including several foreign nationals, also fell victim to the bomb blasts. As of...
Dan Drollette Jr With the news that global atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide set a record high last seen 3 million years ago, calls for action have been accelerating—as has press coverage, from publications big and small. London was the site of...
Robert Hunziker Sometime in the near future it is highly probable that the Arctic will no longer have sea ice, meaning zero ice for the first time in eons, aka: the Blue Ocean Event. Surely, the world is not...
by Roy Eidelson When hijacked planes hit their targets on the morning of September 11, 2001, the American Psychological Association (APA) sprang into action. Within hours, through its disaster response network the APA mobilized expert practitioners and worked with the...