Kenya dispatch: walkout and boycott turn national presidential debate into two one-man shows
Kenya’s presidential debate was held this week at the Catholic University for Eastern Africa (CEUA) in Nairobi and it was divided into two tiers. The first tier was to be between presidential candidates whose popularity ratings, based on three recent opinion polls, stand below 5 percent, while the second tier involved candidates who have polled [...]
Unravelling the Reversal of Roe v. Wade: Who Are the Real Benefactors and Beneficiaries?
“Sticks dipped in oil, wire, knitting needles, coat hangers, ball point pens” This is not your ordinary grocery list but the list of items used to induce abortion in a country that has criminalized abortion. People specifically from marginalized communities resorted to consumption of turpentine, bleach and detergent solutions and used the above listed objects [...]
Capitol riot defendant sentenced to 63 months prison for assaulting police officers
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced Mark Ponder to 63 months in prison for assaulting three police officers during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Ponder is the second Capitol riot defendant to be sentenced to 63 months, the longest prison term handed down thus far. According to court [...]
Kenya dispatch: Deputy President candidates face off on corruption, Bhang legalization
Kenya’s Deputy Presidential debate was held Tuesday at the Catholic University for Eastern Africa (CEUA) in Nairobi. The debate was divided into two tiers. The first tier involved the Deputy Presidential (DP) candidates whose popularity ratings, based on three recent opinion polls, stand below 5 percent, while the second tier involved candidates who have polled [...]
On 20 July 2022, a man who had recently lost a parliamentary election was appointed President of Sri Lanka. A closer look at what led to Ranil Wickramasinghe’s presidential reign highlights an array of Constitutional quirks that threaten to continue to undermine democracy in the island nation. Wickramasinghe was hoisted into the presidency after obtaining [...]
Creator of 'Gozi' computer virus extradited to US on cybercrime charges
US prosecutors Tuesday extradited a Romanian man from Colombia to the US over accusations that the man helped distribute the Gozi virus, one of the most financially destructive computer viruses in recent history. Mihai Ionut Paunescu was extradited to the US under a litany of charges including: conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, conspiracy to commit [...]
Man exonerated in assassination of Malcolm X seeks $40M from NYC
One of the three men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X is seeking USD 40 million in compensatory damages from the City of New York after he was proven innocent of involvement in the killing last year. Muhammad Aziz was arrested on February 26, 1965 at the age of 26 for killing the civil rights [...]
US appeals court rules federal law does not preempt failure to warn claim in weedkiller cancer suit
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) does not preempt a Georgia man from making a failure to warn claim in his lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup. This decision results from an appeal from the US District Court [...]
On December 17, 2010, a vegetable vendor in Tunisia set himself ablaze in open defiance of police harassment, igniting the spark for a wave of democratic revolutions that spread like wildfire across the Arab world. In the decade since the revolutions swept the region, Tunisia has stood out as a success story, being the only [...]
“The bottom line is this – we have a political moment here, where the world is somewhat united about doing something about Russia, particularly the crime of aggression,” said David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and founder of Global Accountability Network (GAN). What action the world will take in [...]
