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How Ebola Got Its Name
By: Bahar Gholipour Published: 10/10/2014 11:35 AM EDT on LiveScience The Ebola virus that’s causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn’t even have a name just 38 years ago when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The international team of...
Putin Orders Troops Away From Ukraine Border
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered thousands of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border to return to their usual bases, according to his spokesman. Dmitry Peskov told Russian news outlets late Saturday in Sochi that Putin had ordered approximately 17,600 troops to return home from Rostov, a southern region that borders...
Weekend Roundup: Ebola On The Loose
This week the world anxiously winced as Ebola spread out of Africa to the US and Spain. The traveling virus exposed some harsh new global realities: the hot zone incubator of Africa’s impoverished urbanization, persistent social inequality and decrepit public health infrastructure all linked to the rest of the planet by air travel. Nothing...
Inside The Donetsk People’s Republic
As an uneasy ceasefire continues to hold in eastern Ukraine, VICE News returns to Donetsk with an exclusive film that follows some of the characters involved in setting up the self-proclaimed state of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). …read more Source: The Huffington...
Warsaw Has Lots of Apples — and Candles
WARSAW — People in Poland are eating apples these days. Lots of apples. Here in Warsaw, they’re pressed into your hands at a street festival, or baked into piles of pies and cakes. You see them everywhere. It’s an act of defiance. Moscow has banned the importing of fruits and vegetables to Russia, in retaliation for the...
Pioneering the Possible
True pioneers are fuelled by their vision of how a new world could be, and dare to take on what has never been done before. Now, when so few people have any vision at all of the future, the pioneering spirit embodies the kind of leadership so deeply needed on the planet. Today’s pioneers are sufficiently in touch with the planet, and with...
Daredevils Climb Onto The Roof Of A Hong Kong Skyscraper, Hack A Billboard To Say ‘What’s Up’
They’ve surreptitiously climbed the Moscow Bridge in Kiev, snuck their way onto the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza and secretly scaled the soon-to-be second tallest building in the world. Now Russian thrill-seekers Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov, also known as “ontheroofs,” have slunk their way into the skies of Hong Kong,...
Hong Kong: The Future of People Power?
In 2000, I organized a meeting in China that brought together independent trade unionists, campaigners for corporate codes of conduct, and human rights advocates. We had spirited conversations about strikes and labor organizing and how to deal with the Communist authorities in Beijing. We didn’t worry about the government monitoring or...
BHL, the Man Who Whispers in Presidents’ Ears
This, too, is part of the BHL phenomenon. Not a “French phenomenon,” mind you, but a “BHL phenomenon,” because it is only with Bernard-Henri Lévy that such a situation, such a sequence of events, could unfold. The committed philosopher, the last heir of Sartre, writes a play that has run for a month at the intimate Théâtre...
Obama’s New Oil Wars
Washington Takes on ISIS, Iran, and RussiaCross-posted with TomDispatch.com It was heinous. It was underhanded. It was beyond the bounds of international morality. It was an attack on the American way of life. It was what you might expect from unscrupulous Arabs. It was “the oil weapon” — and back in 1973, it was directed at the United...
