• California college cancels grad ceremony amid protests over Israel's war in Gaza

    Protests against the Gaza war grip dozens of campuses across America, with hundreds of arrests.

  • Israeli aid groups address food crisis amid war fallout ahead of Passover

    The Israel-Hamas war has kneecapped Israel's agriculture industry, but volunteer organizations have come to the rescue as the festival of freedom arrives

  • US anti-war activist Joe Allen to give talk on crisis of American politics and war in Gaza

    In a meeting organised by People Before Profit, the activist and author will deliver his talk at 7pm in St Columb’s Hall. Allen is the author of several books on US politics, foreign policy and Labour relations. These include, Vietnam the Last War the US lost, and his most recent book on the struggle for Trade Union rights within United Parcel Service. Allen has been active in radical politics for over four decades. Speaking ahead of the event on Wednesday evening in Derry, a spokesperson for...

  • Eye on Texas: An Unwinnable Drug War

    I was born and raised in Mexico and lived at the Texas-Mexico border for eight years. As a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, I began to research Mexican organized crime groups that operate transnationally. Since 2009, I have studied illicit networks involved in U.S.-bound […]

  • Bulls liquidated amid war fears

    Over the weekend, Crypto traders received a strong reminder about the risks of trading with leverage. In the immediate aftermath of Iran's drone and missile launch against Israel, Bitcoin and other Crypto assets experienced flash crashes. Bitcoin dropped from $70,000 to $60,000 in a matter of minutes.

  • Humza Yousaf vows to fight on amid growing crisis in his leadership

    Humza Yousaf was due to speak about the labour strategy in an independent Scotland, but cancelled the plan amid a growing crisis in his leadership

  • Police tangle with Texas and California students amid Gaza protests

    AUSTIN, Texas >> Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests.

  • Focus on climate crisis over wars: Climate scientist on Earth Day

    Addressing the climate crisis, not wars, should be on top of world’s to-do list, one of the world’s top climate scientists said on Sunday. India should be prepared to face killing heat and related disasters, Friederike Otto, senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change and the Environment at London’s Imperial College, said in an interview with Jayashree Nandi. The climate emergency is supercharging floods, droughts and heavy rain across the world, said the leading climate...

  • Opinion: How California's 'math wars' are hurting Black and Latino students

    California’s math wars are roiling the state’s educational system, with contentious debates over high school curricula. At issue is whether a “data science” course should be available as a substitute for Algebra 2. The University of California and California State University systems previously accepted data science as an advanced math requirement in place of Algebra 2. But UC and CSU both recently reversed that decision. Data science proponents cite the high failure rates of Black and Latino...

    • Time

    Ecuador President Orders National Shutdown Amid Electricity Crisis

    Ecuador President Daniel Noboa has blamed the unprecedented measure on drought, but also sabotage, without offering evidence.

  • Two arrested, crystal meth, fentanyl seized in drug raid

    CARBONDALE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two people were arrested after police say a K9 unit helped seized fentanyl, meth, and other narcotics during a drug raid. According to the Carbondale Police Department, two people, Kenneth Urian and Bailee Bloxham, were arrested on felony possession with intent to distribute crystal methamphetamine, and related charges in Carbondale. []

  • China Is Funding America’s Fentanyl Crisis: Congressional Report

    Photo: DEA.gov India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC – The Chinese Communist Party uses tax rebates to subsidize the manufacturing and export of fentanyl materials, a House panel which has Rep.Raja Krishnamoorthi as a ranking members, said in a report released on April 16. The House […]