Month: November 2019

What use are words penned in moments of shocked grief? What insight can be found here that eludes us at other times? What useful honesty can I access when both my head and my heart are struggling to connect my friend, Jo Cox, with the story of this young mother and MP who has been […]

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The U.S. Department of Defense on Friday released its redacted report on the military’s deadly October 2015 airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which found that the bombing was a mistake—and thus, not a war crime—a conclusion which human rights groups called “an affront” to justice and accountability. […]

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Brazil is being pushed to its limits, environmentally, socially and economically. The increasing amount of government officials facing charges linked to the Petrobras scandal proves yet again how destructive the fossil fuel industry is. We are told that at least US$3bn has been stolen from the state-run firm, by racketeering, bribery and money laundering. All […]

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Salma Hayek-Pinault proved to be fashion week royalty on Monday in Paris. The 50-year-old brunette beauty kicked off her week in a fabulous way, of course, and headed to Stella McCartney’s spring-summer 2017 fashion week show with a black chain-strap adorned leather handbag in one hand and husband François-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering, which owns […]

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