Nigeria occupies a very important place in current world politics. This country is home to almost a fifth of the African continent’s population, about one in six Africans is Nigerian. Its already large population is expected to have doubled to 400 million by 2050, moving Nigeria from the 7th most populous country in the world to […]
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Afghan Refugees Exacerbate Western Divisions and Create New Problems
One of the most severe and visible consequences of the crisis in Afghanistan has been the influx of Afghan refugees seeking to flee the country because of the chaos resulting from Western actions in the country. Refugees don’t have many choices. Air communication with the outside world has been severed, so the main wave of […]
Uninsured up from last year and pandemic likely to exacerbate this trend
Image Credit: Mexperience The nation’s uninsured continues to grow. According to new U.S. Census Bureau data, almost 30 million Americans didn’t have health insurance last year, which is up nearly 1 million from the previous year. While the coronavirus pandemic is to blame for the catastrophic unemployment rate, which caused millions of people to lose […]
45 Years After COINTELPRO, FBI Still Thinks ‘Dissent is the Enemy’
Forty-five years ago on Tuesday, peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and unearthed documents exposing the government’s expansive COINTELPRO operations, which aimed to surveil, disrupt, and “neutralize” lawful activist groups, including war protesters, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the American Indian Movement, and the National Lawyers Guild. Though the […]