Tag: feb 9 2021

Violent protests erupted on Friday in Chile in the southern city of Panguipulli after a police officer shot a young street juggler for what had been reported as his refusal to give the officer identification papers.  Videos emerged showing the cop firing shots at Francisco Martínez Romero, 27, as he was juggling two “blunt” machetes...

We have been reporting since mid-November on the protests of hundreds of thousands of farmers in India, in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for deregulation laws that farmers fear will sink them deep into poverty.  They contend the new farm laws, passed in September in secrecy, strip them of earning potential, allowing major...

Bobbi Wine, Uganda’s opposition leader who lost last month’s election to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, announced he is seeking to overturn the election in court.  Wine, who pulled in 35 percent of the vote in the 14 January election to Museveni’s 58 percent, has been a vocal critic of what he called an intimidation campaign on...

China’s Education Ministry issued a notice last week warning that a troubling number of young men in the country have become too “feminine” and called on schools to begin “cultivating students’ masculinity.” The initiative called the “Proposal to Prevent the Feminization of Male Adolescents,” urged schools to tap former athletes to serve as role models...

As reported in this Trends Journal, the Chinese government is taking measures to de-feminize its male population. Over in Turkey, however, students at Istanbul’s Bogazici University last week protested the appointment of Melih Bulu as the school’s new president over allegations he targeted LGBT freedoms in the past, the Financial Times reported.  The report said the protests...

October will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan. The war was launched under the guise of capturing Osama Bin Laden and ridding the nation of its Taliban leadership because they both were, allegedly, responsible for the 9/11 attacks.  The U.S. government, however, contends that 15 of the 19 hijackers were...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced last week it was investigating the Gaza War, or Operation Protective Edge, named by Israel when the war was launched in 2014 after the court determined it maintains jurisdiction over the territories.  Israel called the ruling a political move without legal standing while Palestinians praised the investigation. Axios reported that Tel...

Iran and South Korea announced last week an agreement was reached to release the crew of a 9,797-ton oil tanker seized last month as it sailed the Strait of Hormuz, but there seem to be lingering issues. The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said last week that the ship’s 19-person crew will be able to...

Thousands of people in Myanmar took to the streets over the weekend, decrying the military coup that we reported last week when Myanmar’s military detained the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and declared a state of emergency. This past weekend, the protests escalated with tens of thousands more participating in protest marches....