Each day from Dec. 14 through Dec. 25, GOOD Sports will feature a worthy school athletic program in need of funding. The students of Freshwater Elementary School in Denham Spring, Louisiana, saw their homes and school damaged by a massive flood. Rebuilding will take an even longer time since more than half of the student body …
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Elephants fight. Flickr/Chris Eason. Some rights reserved.New political-economic forces have upended ‘normal’ international and domestic politics in a good number of nations. This past 12 months has seen the confluence of the Trump takeover of the US Government, pressures to dismantle the EU through Brexit, Greek debt negotiations, the Le Pen campaign in France and …
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has sued the NFL’s owners for allegedly colluding to keep him out of the league, believing that league owners refused to hire him after his controversial on-field protests against racial inequality and police brutality. But while he sits on the sideline, he might consider a quote by Dr. Martin …
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The Armed Forces occupy the Complejo del Alemán, in Rio de Janeiro, to ensure security during the municipal elections in 2008. Image: Wilson Dias/ABr, CC BY-3.0 BR. Soldiers are back in Rio de Janeiro, but they had not been gone for long. In the last 12 months, the military was called 4 times to intervene. …
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US Ambassador David Balton, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials, with Aleut representatives of the Russian Commander Islands before the Arctic Council Ministerial at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Bob Hallinen/Press Association. All rights reserved.2017 was the year of principled power. The Social Democratic Party in Germany grappled with …
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"Bullets from the military police ('PM') only kill black people". Protest in São Paulo, 2014. Image: Oswaldo Cornetti/fotos públicas. Some rights reserved.Latin America faces an increase in the use of violence as a way to resolving everyday conflicts. The overwhelming presence of organized crime in most Latin American countries has led to homicide rates which multiply …
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THE GOOD NEWS: Trump may not be entirely serious. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which was dubbed “Star Wars” by its detractors. SDI was intended to defend the United States from a Soviet nuclear attack using land and space-based laser systems. The defense proposal never made it into orbit …
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THE GOOD NEWS: Public reaction to Stallone’s tasteless tweet shows there’s no tolerance for Parkland survivors being mocked. Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has rankled many Republicans after becoming a vocal gun-control advocate in the aftermath of the shooting which killed 17 people at his high school, which has led to some lashing out …
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Click:electronic components distributor Piazza Santi Apostoli demonstration demanding justice for Giulio Regeni and other victims of the Al Sisi government in Egypt. Rome, Italy, February 13, 2016. Andrea Ronchini/Pacific Press/press association. All rights reserved.This is another interview in a series on the dilemmas and contradictions researchers encounter in undertaking research in the Middle East. The …
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Image courtesy of María Elvira Espinosa Marinovich, via 070. Post-conflict Colombia is diverse. All the areas, territories and regions where the armed groups operated during the conflict are now posing new challenges to the Colombian State – political challenges which the country has not faced before because, until now, its politics were primarily centered on …
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