By Laurie Goodstein and Sharon Otterman, Aug. 14, 2018
Bishops and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Economic Opportunity, Hunger, Disease, Human Rights, War, Population, Environment, Personal Growth
Stela of Sirenenutet (c) 2016-2018 Lisa Blume & Keith Blume
Updated: The End Of Civilization As We Knew It,… Continue reading
Message of the Day: Economic Opportunity, Hunger, Disease, Human Rights, War, Population, Environment, Personal Growth
Stela of Sirenenutet (c) 2016-2018 Lisa Blume & Keith Blume
Updated: The End Of Civilization As We Knew It,… Continue reading
“Italy/Malta: Stop Playing With Refugee Migrant’s Lives By Closing Ports” Amnesty International Ireland
Dublin, 14th August 2018
Responding to news that the authorities in Italy and Malta have closed their ports to Aquarius… Continue reading
“UNICEF appeals for end to ‘war on children’ in Syria and Yemen”, UN News
13 August 2018
Attacks against children caught in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen must stop, the UN children’s agency,… Continue reading
“Moscow crushes the Prague Spring – archive, August 1968”, The Guardian
Compiled by Richard Nelson, London, 10 Aug 2018
How the Guardian reported the Russian and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia,… Continue reading
“Appreciation: Richard Sipe helped uncover pattern of clergy sex abuse”, The Boston Globe
By Michael Rezendes, August 13, 2018
When the Globe Spotlight team began its investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic… Continue reading
“Iranians can’t wait till 2020”, Le Monde diplomatique
By Camelia Entekhabifard, Paris, 10 August 2018
There’s nowhere like Iran to generate weekly, if not daily, headlines… Continue reading
“Nelson Mandela’s ‘new’ collection of prison dispatches signs his name across our hearts: Bongani Madondo reviews The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela”, The Johannesburg Review of Books
Bongani Madondo, August 6, 2018
Torn for so long between anxiety and awe at the idolisation of Nelson Mandela, The… Continue reading
“Sexual abuse cases and India’s failure to protect children”, Deutsche Welle
World, Bonn, 08.08.18
Reports of child abuse at state-run shelters have shocked India, exposing the government’s inability to protect children.… Continue reading