A significant trend seen around the world is the mass movement of poor working people, locked down in crowded cities where they are now unemployed, who are seeking to escape and return to their rural towns. In Peru, some 167,000 citizens have sought help from the government to flee urban cities for the countryside. Yet,...
As the Trends Journal has been reporting on a regular basis, the five-year war in Yemen, initiated by Saudi Arabia’s invasion to squash anti-government Houthi rebels in the civil war there, has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. It is estimated that over 100,000 Yemenis have been killed, including many women and children, mostly...
In Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city, a protester was killed last Tuesday as a result of soldiers firing tear gas and live bullets against demonstrators. Angry crowds set fire to two banks, and demonstrations spread out across the capital city of Beirut. Over the next few days, four more banks were vandalized and firebombed. Last...
Over the past few weeks, officials representing the Chinese government in Beijing have put strong pressure on Hong Kong’s political leaders to enact security laws prohibiting the return of massive street protests, which rocked the city and surrounding area from March 2019 until the COVID-19 pandemic starting last January. The increasing concern from Beijing comes...
The Trends Journal has been reporting on the United States ongoing actions to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro when he was sworn in to a new term in January 2019 and replace him with self-declared president Juan Guaidó. As reported, on 26 March, the United States placed a $15 million-dollar bounty on President Maduro, accusing...
While COVID-19 continues to dominate headlines and TV news reports 24/7, there is barely any mention on a true crisis far deadlier than coronavirus: in Yemen, at least 14 million people are on the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations. The cause is not a virus, but the disease of war, which has...
U.S.: “MADURO: DEAD OR ALIVE” As reported in the Trends Journal, on 23 January 2019, the U.S. recognized Juan Guaidó as the legitimate president of Venezuela, despite the election victory of Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. claimed at the time Maduro had rigged the election, even though a number of international observers confirmed it had been...
Over the past two decades, millions of migrants have fled war torn nations destroyed by the United States and its allies – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc., and poverty stricken countries of Africa, seeking refuge in Europe. Hundreds of thousands have made dangerous trips on makeshift boats from the coast of Turkey to cross the Aegean Sea to...
The protests that began in December, which spread across India following the new citizenship law discriminating against Muslims, continues to escalate. Last week, over 40 demonstrators were killed and 200 wounded as Hindu mobs attacked Muslims who were continuing the nationwide protests against the citizenship law. In addition to police and security forces using drones...