Opioids Photo K-State Research and Extension/Creative Commons THOSE responsible for the early deaths of hundreds of NHS patients wrongly dosed with opioids should face criminal charges, relatives demanded today. ...more
This World Refugee Day, the protection of vulnerable people who are urgently seeking a place of safety is more important than ever.The plight of a marooned ship in the Mediterranean captured global media attention last week and brought refugees back into the spotlight. 630 people, including children and pregnant women, were stranded aboard the Aquarius rescue boat for a week, having already spent 20 hours in overcrowded rubber dinghies attempting the…
Sports commentator Vicki Sparks won praise from football fans on Wednesday afternoon, after making history by becoming the first woman to commentate on a World Cup match, live on a British terrestrial channel. The broadcaster took the lead role on the BBC’s Portugal vs. Morocco commentary, and was joined in the box by former Arsenal player Martin Keown.With plenty of experience from working on Five Live, Final Score and BBC Newcastle,…
“Every generation must fight the same battles again and again. There’s no final victory and there’s no final defeat.” Tony Benn’s life has been a book of powerful quotes for many young socialists in Britain but perhaps this is the one that should feel resonant for many.Maybe that’s because we do not learn from the mistakes of old. Migrants are drowning at sea. Racism is flaring heavily. Children are being locked…
My name is Lydia Pam Davou. I am 45-years-old. I am a widow with eight children: five girls and three boys.I left school aged 10. After marrying my husband, I worked as a farmer. He had a job with the government, and then retired and worked with me on the farm.In May 2015, we were woken up by gun shots. We heard that the neighbouring village had been attacked by herdsmen.…
Only half of 25-54 year olds with a longstanding mental health problem are in work compared with nearly 90% of the rest of the population. Those with a mental health problem who are in work, earn on average 23% less per week than the rest of the population. Four in ten people with mental health problems are in poverty, more than double the national rate.These are the headline findings from a…
Donald Trump will meet the Queen when he visits the UK next month, according to reports.Originally the US President was invited for a full state visit but after an outcry, it was downgraded to a working visit. However, the US ambassador to the UK has told Sky News that a meeting with the Queen has been scheduled in.Trump will be visiting Britain for the first time since becoming President on Friday 13…
A university has apologised after sending students a quote by a Nazi general as part of a career advice email. The following quote by Erwin Rommel: “One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles,” was dispatched internally, the Falmouth Packet reported.Rommel was a field marshal who commanded Hitler’s army in North Africa.A spokesman for the University of Exeter said it had been chosen from a public…
US President Donald Trump is to sign an executive order to end the separation of immigrant families at the US southern border, which has sparked outrage in the United States and abroad.While the US President was vague in his pledge to “sign something”, various US media reported an executive order had been drafted by Justice and Homeland Security to temporarily stop the controversial practice.“I’ll be signing something in a little while…
The story is heartbreaking. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow found herself unable to finish her show Tuesday night as she broke into tears reading a story about President Donald Trump's administration detaining babies and toddlers."This has just come out from the Associated Press," she said, reading the story on air. "This is incredible."She continued: "The Trump administration has been sending babies and other young children...…
The Washington Post Fact Checker meticulously documents Trump's truthfulness. President Donald Trump has always been a frequent liar, but it's getting worse.That's the conclusion of the Washington Post's Ashley Parker, who closely follows the statements coming out of the White House."According to an analysis by The Post’s Fact Checker through the end of May, Trump had made 3,251 false or misleading claims in 497…
Images and audio have depicted horrifying scenes of children being traumatized by the family separation policy. While meeting with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill Tuesday, President Donald Trump expressed concern about the political blowback against his policy of separating immigrant families but did not actually seem interested in the substance of the policy, according to a report from CNN.One Republican lawmaker told…
Click here for reuse options! Lewandowski served as President Trump's campaign manager. President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski tried to make light of the administration's policy of separating immigrant families on Fox News Tuesday, and he ended up mocking a young girl with Down syndrome who had been torn away from her mother. "I read today about a 10-year-old girl…
Click here for reuse options! "The children are being punished," Blitzer said. In a short but revealing interview, head of ICE Thomas Homan on Tuesday appeared to express discomfort with President Donald Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.When CNN's Wolf Blitzer repeatedly pressed him on whether the policy is "humane," Homan responded with a long pause and broke…
Click here for reuse options! Lee made the statement after interrupting a line of questioning from Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said during a Tuesday congressional hearing that Republicans plan to remove Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein this Friday.Lee interrupted Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during a hearing about the U.S. Department of Justice…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos If you were to pick a point to start the story of online work platforms, you’d probably land on the 2nd of November 2005 and the launch of Amazon Mechanical Turk. “You’ve heard of software as a service” proclaimed Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, “now you have human as…
In spite of the way Brexit dominates the news cycle, most people don’t seem to want to think about it. We tend to screen out the endless mess too-ing and fro-ing of the negotiations and the associated embarrassing and painful shenanigans within both political parties – and hope that it will all…
A young girl waits outside the registration centre at Tante Health Post located in Bajura District of Nepal. 2018 is an incredibly important year for health: the NHS turns 70 years old. This is both an opportunity to celebrate “the most civilised step any country had ever taken” and renew our attention…
The Zad: The story so far The Zad (zone à defendre, zone to defend) was initially set up as a protest against the building of a new airport for the city of Nantes. A letter from residents was distributed during a climate camp in 2009 inviting people to squat the land and…
Illustration by Andrzej Krauze This essay is available in the latest edition of Red Pepper Magazine.Subscribe now for the latest in news, views and cutting-edge analysis. In 1792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote in her seminal book The Rights of Women, ‘It is justice, not charity, that is…
Photo by Nico Hogg As I write, the charred remains of Grenfell Tower loom over North Kensington. At times, as you walk around its base among the low-rise blocks of the leafy Lancaster West Estate to which it belonged, you can almost forget the events of a year ago. But then you’ll…
Over two warm days in mid-May, staff at the Dagenham Tesco’s distribution centre went on strike, their picket only a short walk from where auto workers, 39 years before, occupied the then-huge Ford plant against ‘layoffs’, whereby work and wages were stopped, as soon production became unprofitable. BetterRetailing.com expected that ‘80% of…
Amber Rudd took a bullet for Theresa May in the immediate aftermath the Windrush scandal, stepping down is because she ‘inadvertently mislead Parliament’. But really, it’s the current prime minister, now in charge of Brexit, who is really to blame for the disastrous immigration policies which lead to the deportation of Black…
A 15M assembly in Barcelona. Photo: Víctor Manuel Espinosa. Mel Evans and Kevin Smith interview US-based organiser and author Jonathan Smucker, whose new book Hegemony How-To offers a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is still ambivalent about questions of power, leadership and strategy Can you tell us what…
On 1 June 2018, Razan al-Najjar—a 21 year-old paramedic—was shot dead by an Israeli sniper in Gaza while providing medical treatment to wounded protestors. She became the 119th Palestinian killed in Gaza since mass demonstrations against Israel’s siege began on 30 March. During the same period, Israeli forces shot more than 3,600…
Opioids Photo K-State Research and Extension/Creative Commons THOSE responsible for the early deaths of hundreds of NHS patients wrongly dosed with opioids should face criminal charges, relatives demanded today. ...more
HMS Victory, a Trident missile-armed submarine Photo Will Haigh/Creative Commons ANTI-NUCLEAR activists chained themselves outside Parliament today to demand the government signs a treaty to ban destructive weapons and disarm Trident. ...more
US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s announcement that Washington is quitting the UN Human Rights Council seems quite apposite given the Trump administration’s monstrous conduct towards children. ...more
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THE INQUEST into the death of Rashan Charles was branded a “farce” today after a jury found his death after being detained by police was an accident. Mr Charles, 20, died in hospital in the early hours of July 22 last year shortly after he was chased by an officer into a shop in east London, tackled to the…
ANTI-NUCLEAR activists chained themselves outside Parliament today to demand the government signs a treaty to ban destructive weapons and disarm Trident. During Prime Minister’s Questions, campaigners from across Britain echoed the women’s suffrage movement from 100 years ago, calling on Britain to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The activists from campaign group Trident Ploughshares…
UNITED STATES President Donald Trump has caused international outrage over his decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, after the administration branded it a “cesspool of political bias.” US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the Geneva-based body was “hypocritical” and makes a “mockery of human rights” with an “unending hostility towards Israel.” UN…
TORY Westminster council and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) “totally ignored” warnings of workers illegally living on a construction site, Unite said today. The union raised concerns after a group of migrant workers involved in renovating several apartment blocks at Abercorn Place Estate in St Johns Wood, north London, were found to be living on the site. Unite…
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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on immigration on Wednesday to end the separation of immigrant families at the US-Mexico border, which has sparked outrage in the United States and abroad.
In a letter to at least 17 rights and aid groups, seen by Reuters, Haley berated them for urging countries not to support a US-drafted General Assembly resolution titled 'Improving the Effectiveness of the Human Rights Council'.
A flurry of unsolved murders and kidnappings for ransom has eroded Ugandans' trust in law enforcement bodies.
Trump is due in mid-July after months of back-and-forth over when he would visit the country that has traditionally been the United States' closest ally, raising questions over the state of their relationship.
May survived a brewing rebellion within her own Conservative party ranks to win a crucial Brexit vote in Parliament.
Pope Francis has criticised the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems.
The pope has already accepted the resignations of three bishops, and all Chile's remaining bishops have offered to resign after allegations that the abuse, including of children, was covered up.
All 28 European states are unlikely to fulfil at their June 28-29 meeting the demand of Merkel's coalition partner for a bloc-wide plan to spread the burden of hosting asylum seakers more widely across the EU.
The Vatican and China are in advanced talks to resolve a dispute over the appointment of bishops in China, one of the biggest obstacles to resuming diplomatic ties that were cut almost 70 years ago.
Trump’s new zero-tolerance immigration policy, which separates parents from their children, is a cruel strategy to curb the flow of immigrants and asylum-seekers arriving in the United States. Here’s why it’s bound to fail.
We check in on worker-led activism across the country, with interviews on UPS and AT&T strikes, behind-the-scenes resistance at Google, and the public banking movement.
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Equal parts muckraking journalism and biting satire, the print-only, century-old French newspaper Le Canard enchaîné represents one of the most remarkable stories in modern journalism.
We are thrilled to welcome Timothy Shenk as co-editor of Dissent alongside Michael Kazin.
The United Nations has welcomed Tuesday’s announcement by the leaders of Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) that 27 years after the dispute began, they have reached a mutual agreement over a new name for the Republic.
Expressing grave concern over the recent deterioration of the security situation in eastern Ukraine and its “severe impact” on civilians, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday underlined the need to scale up efforts to support the civilian population affected by the conflict.
The launch of a new partnership between the United Nations and European Union, is an essential tool to make violence against women and girls “a thing of the past”, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Tuesday.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Tuesday’s attacks by a gunman in the Belgian city of Liège, which left two police officers and a civilian dead.
The United Nations top political affairs official on Tuesday stressed the need to breathe life back into ongoing efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, now in its fifth year, which has killed and injured thousands of civilians, plunging the country into a humanitarian crisis.
Following the conclusion of an investigation that holds Russia responsible for the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane in 2014, the United Nations chief said on Friday that he “has taken note with concern of the latest report”.
While commending efforts by the French government to combat terrorism, a United Nations rights expert has raised concerns about the effect recent counter-terrorism laws are having on fundamental human rights there, including freedom of movement, religion and association.
A senior United Nations official on Tuesday urged Israel to reverse course over illegal settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land, and for both parties to return to the negotiating table in pursuit of a lasting peace deal.
After visiting the shattered streets of West Mosul over the weekend, the long-standing United Nations Refugee Agency envoy, Angelina Jolie, said that she had never seen such devastation, in her 17-years of working in the field.
As the Yemeni port city of Hodeida continues to come under attack from Saudi-led coalition forces on Thursday, seeking to drive out Houthi rebels who control the city, the United Nations and humanitarian partners are rushing to provide life-saving assistance to thousands of vulnerable families there.
By Philip Smucker At the newly-established “50/50” fast food restaurant on the tree-lined streets of Herat, in the west of Afghanistan, business is brisk as deliveries are whisked away, on the back of motorbikes to hungry customers across the ancient city.
In an emergency meeting on Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an Arab-sponsored resolution calling for greater protection for Palestinians, and deploring any use of “excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate” force by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians, particularly in Gaza.
An attempt by a Saudi-led military coalition to take control of the Yemeni port of Hodeida from opposition Houthi forces “will have serious consequences” on an already “dire” situation for millions of civilians, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen said on Wednesday.
Any attack on the key Yemeni port of Hodeida would deepen one of the world’s worst malnutrition crises and put the lives of an estimated 300,000 children at risk, said the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday.
Archaeologists have found carbonized germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the Iron Age in the Nordic region. The findings made in Uppåkra in southern Sweden indicate a large-scale production…
Today, producing feed for pigs, cattle and chicken causes immense impacts for the climate and the environment. In the future, animal feed production is likely to be shifted from croplands to large-scale industrial facilities as it…
By faithfully copying the most popular songs, swamp sparrows create time-honored song traditions that can be just as long-lasting as human traditions, finds a new study. The results show that creating traditions that pass the test…
System enables people to correct robot mistakes on multi-choice problems.
A discovery of a new species of sponge-like fossil from the Cambrian Period sheds light on early animal evolution.
Alzheimer's disease currently affects more than 5.5 million Americans and is one of the costliest diseases to treat, according to…
New research from the Center for Vital Longevity (CVL) at The University of Texas at Dallas suggests that subjective complaints…
Nurses and healthcare workers are highly concerned about vulnerable patients who make up the equivalent of 3.2 million hospital beds…
The largest and most detailed study of the long-term impact of anticholinergic drugs, a class of drugs commonly prescribed in…
People whose knees have been affected by osteoarthritis, also known as the 'wear and tear' arthritis, often have to get…
In patients with chronic inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, there has been limited understanding of how this inflammation affects…
An algorithm to monitor the joints of patients with arthritis, which could change the way that the severity of the…
Researchers previously showed that overweight and obese individuals with knee osteoarthritis can reduce pain by 50% and significantly improve function…
The results of a 23-year, follow-up study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) suggest early,…
The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) demonstrate that canakinumab significantly…
It's called the 'kiss of death'. Triple negative breast cancer has no targeted drug therapy and, as such, the only…
Six genes contain mutations that may be passed down in families, substantially increasing a person's risk for pancreatic cancer. That's…
It's called the Silver Tsunami—the increased incidence of cancer with ageing, combined with the rapidly ageing population means that the…
Seattle Children's has opened a pioneering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy trial for children and young adults with relapsed…
Hypnosis could help to reduce the fear of medical procedures in children and young people with cancer.
It is important that patients with diabetes be involved in decisions concerning the management of their condition while they are…
Diabetes is a chronic disorder affecting millions of individuals worldwide. European scientists plan to improve patients' lifelong adherence to treatment…
Diagnosing type 2 diabetes in clinical practice may require only a single blood sample, according to a study led by…
Plant-based diets improve glycemic control, lead to weight loss, and improve cholesterol in people with type 2 diabetes, according to…
(HealthDay)—Elevated baseline N-terminal B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is independently associated with development of major cardiovascular (CV) events, in particular hospitalization…
One year after researchers published their work on a physiological test for autism, a follow-up study confirms its exceptional success…
Teenagers with difficulties in social communication, including autism have higher rates of depressive symptoms, especially if they are being bullied.
Tony had lived on the streets for 45 years, and in recent years had become increasingly physically unwell. Despite this…
One in 59 children in the United States lives with a form of autism spectrum disorder, according to the Centers…
