On 31 December The Wall Street Journal reported on the results of a civil trial which had ended the previous day. Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. was found liable, in a case that had gone on for five years, for creating a public nuisance. The drugmaker was sued by New York State and two Long Island...
While the moronic mainstream media blasts headlines about dying comics, a lost skier… or BBC’s headline story yesterday that “Millionaire murderer Robert Durst dies in prison,” not a peep about the U.S. backed Saudi Yemen War, which, according to the United Nations, is the worst humanitarian crisis on earth. Now, fighting has intensified in cities...
Thousands of protesters in Sudan took to the streets on Sunday to voice their opposition to the military coup that occurred in October and resulted in Abdel Fattah al-Burhan sitting at the head of the government. The protests have resulted in 62 civilian deaths, including one protester who died Sunday after getting hit in the...
At the end of December, Israel launched an airstrike on Syria’s main port of Latakia. It was the second such attack this month. The Syrian Defense Ministry said a missile caused extensive damage in the key commercial Mediterranean port. A video on social media showed massive flames at the site of the attack. One Israeli...
A local committee in Israel last Wednesday approved the development of over 3,500 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, which is expected to create new tensions in the region and further frustrate Washington. AntiWar.com, citing NGO Peace Now, reported that the homes would be positioned in a way that cuts off East Jerusalem from...
The U.S. vowed to further reinforce NATO partners “on the eastern flank” if Russia continued to further invade Ukraine as NATO rejected Moscow’s demand to halt the alliance from taking on any new members. Ned Price, the State Department spokesman, tweeted out the comments after reports emerged in the U.S. that Washington may be willing...
Last week peaceful protests broke out in Kazakhstan when masses took to the streets to protest the removal of price controls on liquified petroleum gas that people use to fuel their cars. The protests turned violent when, according to government officials, the demonstrations were hijacked by terrorists and organized crime groups that attacked the police...
The number of murders in some of the largest cities in the U.S. continued to rise in 2021 while the COVID-19 outbreak continues to rage throughout the country. The cities that reached a record high in killings included Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., Louisville, Ky., and Albuquerque, N.M., according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper, citing a study...
In a televised address last week Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte deputized community leaders to alert authorities if they spot someone who is unvaccinated outside and breaking stay-at-home orders. “If he refuses, if he goes out his house and goes around the community, he can be restrained,” the president said, according to Reuters. “If he refuses, the captain...
School systems and colleges across the U.S. have turned, once again, to remote learning amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has sparked new safety concerns and created staffing issues. Chicago announced Monday that it landed on an agreement with the city’s teachers union to get children back into the classroom for in-person...