Month: October 2020

Danny Rose, Paulo Gazzaniga and Gedson Fernandes have been omitted from Jose Mourinho’s Spurs squad for the Europa League group stage. The squad was announced on Thursday morning with Tottenham having to make tough decisions over whether to include a number of players. Gazzaniga, who was linked with moves to Everton and Liverpool on transfer…

Man Utd have left out Marcos Rojo, Sergio Romero and Phil Jones out of their Champions League squad for the group stage of the competition. It will come as little surprise to see those three names out of the squad for various reasons. Rojo spent the second half of last season at Estudiantes on loan…

Jose Mourinho wanted to bring Moussa Dembele to Spurs as his top target but ended up settling for Carlos Vinicius, according to reports. Tottenham brought Vinicius to north London a loan deal a few days before the transfer deadline, ending their search for a new striker. The 25-year-old, who was joint top goalscorer in Portugal’s…

Thanks to “foot dragging by the Securities and Exchange Commission” combined with “aggressive lobbying and legal challenges by oil industry laggards,” a U.S. law meant to increase transparency around fossil fuel operations in developing countries has been stalled for nearly five years, charges a new report from Oxfam America. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform…

Friday marks one year since 43-year-old Eric Garner, a black, unarmed father of six, died at the hands of a white New York City police officer. But 365 days later, justice is still elusive, according to Garner’s family—as well as the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized in part by his death. Tweets about #StillCantBreathe OR…

As Yemenis suffer “appalling damage” from ongoing conflict, one humanitarian medical organization says that those states supporting the coalition-led offenses may be contributing to civilian deaths. The World Health Organization said Tuesday that nearly 4,000 people had died in the conflict since it broke out mid-March, nearly 1,900 of whom were civilians. Reuters summarizes the…

Black kids in St. Louis, Missouri are being disproportionately impacted by unconstitutional and discriminatory miscarriages of justice within the Family Court system, according to a two-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to a statement on Friday from the agency’s Civil Rights Division, the probe found multiple constitutional violations, including: Failure to ensure…

MEXICO CITY – A few centuries ago, the biotechnology industry would have been able to buy a papal bull to expiate its sins and grant it redemption. But in his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si”, Pope Francis condemns genetically modified organisms (GMOs) without leaving room for a pardon. In his second encyclical since he…

“Alaskans are on the front lines of one of the greatest challenges we face this century: climate change,” President Barack Obama said in a video posted on the White House website Thursday, in which he announced an upcoming trip to the state to highlight the crisis of global warming. “Climate change once seemed like a…

With less than 100 days until high-level UN climate talks take place in Paris, key leaders from the global climate justice movement have come together with a joint statement that affirms their belief that only mass popular mobilizations across the planet demanding a drastic reckoning with the world’s fossil fuel paradigm will suffice when it…