The recent decision by the Hague-based International Court of Justice that the Chagos Islands — with its huge U.S. military base at Diego Garcia — are being illegally occupied by the United Kingdom (UK) has the potential to upend the strategic plans of a dozen regional capitals, ranging from Beijing to Riyadh. For a tiny […]
While Chrissy Teigen may have announced that she was expecting her second child with hubby, John Legend, only a few weeks ago, her sultry style has not missed a beat. From skintight minidresses to waist-cinching gowns, the former model knows how to dress her bump without sacrificing the sexy. And, her latest red carpet appearance at […]
I spent last week in the Brazilian Amazon in Porto Velho, Rondonia, on the edge of what is called the arco do incendios. The “arc of fires” is a region stretching along the yet-to-be-paved highways 319 and 230, between the towns of Humaitá and Apui in Southern Amazonas, a state that still had 98% of […]
If there were any lingering hopes that the corporate media learned from its role in perpetuating the lies that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and would never again help start a Middle East war on the basis of false or flimsy evidence, the headlines that blared across the front pages of major U.S. […]
A US official in the UK has indicated that he is “working with local authorities” and “examining the intelligence” that led to a drone strike late last week that took the lives of 30 customers at a restaurant in central London. It appears that the intended target of the strike was a gathering of IS […]
The climate movement in the US and around the world has gone through two main phases and is entering a third. The first, starting with the confirmation of man-made global warming, was a movement of environmental organizations in alliance with governments and the UN focused primarily on lobbying governments for legislation and international agreements. The […]
For their role in sparking a global wave of marches, civil disobedience, and weekly school strikes aimed at pressuring the world’s political leaders to act on the climate crisis, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the youth-led movement she inspired were honored Friday with Amnesty International’s top human rights award. “It is a huge honor […]
Click:NBA live zhibo Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to introduce your favorite new celebrity: Mistress Claus! Just when we were getting prepared to call Lady Gaga by her given name, Stefani Germanotta, the 31-year-old pop star took to Instagram on Sunday to share a hilarious ‘gram of herself dressed up as “Mistress Claus,” the […]
Ponder the onrushing disaster of climate change, and the towering task of getting greenhouse gas emissions down in time to avoid existential calamity, and one can be led very easily to an enervating political despair. The battle is basically lost, or so says the famed novelist Jonathan Franzen in a New Yorker essay this week. […]
Longtime Victoria’s Secret model Candice Swanepoel, who delivered her first son just last October, is expecting baby No. 2 sometime in 2018. Since the 29-year-old announced her pregnancy in mid-December, she’s been coy with bump-baring ‘grams. On Friday, however, Candice put our anticipation at bay by sharing a sexy photo of herself cradling her growing […]