Air strike in Sana'a, Yemen. Ibrahem Qasim/Flickr This article was first published in November 2016. On Saturday 8th October, more than 140 people were killed and over 500 injured when warplanes bombed a funeral in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. In the words of one rescuer, “The place has been turned into a lake of blood.”…
No matter how many photographs of Earth you’ve seen, you’ve literally never seen ones like this. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new GOES-16 satellite has just realized stunning new images of Planet Earth whose detail and perspective provide an entirely new way of looking at our home. “Seeing these first images from…
Thomas Paine statue, Thetford, Norfolk. Wikicommons/Andrewself. Some rights reserved.‘Government founded… on a system of universal peace, on the indefeasible hereditary Rights of Man … interests not particular individuals but nations in its progress, and promises a new era to the human race.’ …
President-elect Donald Trump is right where he wants to be: at the center of our thoughts. In this edition of “What Did He Just Do?” we find ourselves taken aback by a tweet thanking L.L. Bean for a donation board member Linda Bean made to a PAC that aided Donald Trump during his campaign. Since the tweet,…
Looking at the ruins of a building destroyed in airstrikes in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, a day before the second anniversary of the military intervention in Yemen, on March 25, 2017.Xinhua/Press Association. All rights reserved. Two years ago, on 26 March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition started aerial attacks on Yemen, transforming a civil war into…
We’re only five days into Trump’s presidency (technically three since he took the weekend off), and the new commander-in-chief has already signed executive orders to cripple international health care, suppress evidence of global warming, advance construction on the Dakota pipelines, and restrict Muslims from entering the country. For those who wanted to give him a chance,…
HDP's massive election rally in Istanbul, May 30, 2015. Demotix/ Sahan Nuholglu. All rights reserved.On April 11, the PKK and the Turkish military engaged in the first major clash since the beginning of the much-awaited and short-lived ceasefire of 2013, leaving 5 PKK militants dead and four Turkish soldiers injured. This clash, viewed as “pre-planned…
Hans Blix. The Official CTBTO Photostream. All rights reserved. 52Insights (52): Let’s go back in time in your distinguished career. You were the first western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster and you were also a central figure in the fiasco in Iraq. Is it easy for you to comprehend the pivotal…
Teresa Phillips is in a league all her own. As the one-time head coach of Tennessee State’s men’s basketball team, she alone represents the single, solitary, female coach for all of Division 1 NCAA men’s basketball. Ever. Her representation matters all the more when you consider the fact that just 40 percent of all head…
Click:Sunglasses Bolivian president Evo Morales has cultivated a close relationship with China since taking office in 2006, but many deals with Chinese firms are under scrutiny (image: Sebastien Baryli) As Bolivians were preparing to go to the polls on February 21 to vote on a constitutional referendum that would have permitted President Evo Morales to…