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Last week, the pro-Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported, “The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a report on Tuesday outlining the dire humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip and reiterating its support for lifting… [Israel’s] decade-long siege of the territory...
Britain’s National Health Service views too much social media use as harmful!
The Times reported that “Angela Merkel is pressing for a meeting with Donald Trump after he caused ‘astonishment and agitation’ among European leaders with broadsides at Nato, the EU and the German chancellor herself’” (January 17, 2017).
A recent 70-nation meeting in France saw Great Britain side with Israel and Australia against the majority. “Instead of demonstrating international consensus as intended by France under President Francois Hollande, the summit turned into a showdown between France and the United Kingdom over Israel” (Jerusalem Post, January 19, 2017). This comes on the heels of...
Seventy nations just completed a day-long summit in France with the aim of “kick-starting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians” and maintaining the two state solution (BBC, January 15, 2017). The irony of the meeting is that Israel and the Palestinians did not take part in the meeting! Also sobering was the fact that Britain refused to sign the joint...
The gap between the rich and the poor is growing larger. Eight billionaire businessmen “have more combined wealth than the poorest 3.6 billion people in the world put together” (Euronews, January 16, 2016). “The Oxfam report added that since 2015 the richest 1 percent has owned more wealth than the rest of the planet.
Researchers followed participants for 20 years and discovered “there is a link not only between helping [others] and beneficial health effects, but also between helping and mortality” (Time, December 27, 2016).
A recent study warns that “future crops will face threats… from the massive expansion of cities… By 2030, it’s estimated that urban areas will triple in size, expanding into cropland and undermining the productivity of agricultural systems that are already stressed… Roughly 60% of the world’s cropland lies on the outskirts of cities—and that’s particularly...
A new U.S. intelligence report predicts “[t]he risk of conflicts between and within nations will increase over the next five years to levels not seen since the Cold War as global growth slows, the post-World War Two order erodes and anti-globalization fuels nationalism” (Reuters, January 9, 2017).
Venezuela is descending into chaos! “President Nicolas Maduro announced Sunday that he has decided to raise the monthly minimum wage by 50 percent… the fifth that he has ordered over the past 12 months, for a total annualized increase of 536 percent” (Fox News, January 9, 2017).