Porto wrap up double for West Ham and Liverpool pair
West Ham’s Felipe Anderson has joined Porto on a season-long loan with Liverpool midfielder Marko Grujic also heading to Portugal. The midfielder is yet to start a Premier League game for the Hammers this season. Anderson joined West Ham for a reported £36million from Lazio in 2018 and he has scored 12 times in 73 appearances…
Liverpool told to sign Adrian replacement to solve keeper issues
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been told to sign Jack Butland from Stoke City to replace Adrian by a former England number one. Adrian performed poorly against Aston Villa on Sunday, playing a stray pass in the fourth minute to allow striker Ollie Watkins to give the underdogs the lead. The Spanish keeper went on…
Alternative Nobel Winners Bring Hope to 'Challenged Planet'
The 2015 Right Livelihood Awards, also known as the “alternative Nobels,” recognized individuals—including one country’s entire population—who presented solutions to human rights crises around the world. Those honors went to Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier; Ugandan LGBTI rights activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera; and Italian war surgeon Gino Strada. An honorary Right Livelihood Award also went…
Numerous Civilians Dead After US Bombs Hospital in Afghanistan
At least 12 staff members and seven patients were confirmed killed during the airstrike, bringing the death toll to 19 as of Saturday. At least 37 were wounded. Some were flown to Kabul for treatment. A suspected U.S. airstrike on a trauma center run by Doctors Without Border/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Saturday has killed…
Bullying Fueled Overly-Optimistic ISIS Intel, Analysts Charge
Intelligence reports that questioned the efficacy of U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State fighters were reportedly questioned, watered-down, or distorted, in order to present a more “glass half full” view of the bombing campaign, new reporting reveals. In an exclusive report published over the weekend, Daily Beast reporters Shane Harris and Nancy Youssef exposed the actual…
Joining Bernie and Trumping Obama, Clinton Comes Out Against Keystone XL
Joining political rival Bernie Sanders in his long-held opposition and distancing herself from the reluctance of the Obama administration to reject the project outright, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton came out publicly against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline for the first time on Tuesday. “I think it is imperative,” Clinton said during a campaign…
Bernie Won. But Corporate Media Crowned Hillary Victor All the Same.
While mainstream media pundits fell in line this week to declare Hillary Clinton the winner of Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, signs suggest that it was Clinton’s main rival, Bernie Sanders, who in fact emerged victorious. Not only did the U.S. senator from Vermont have “the biggest soundbite of the night,” as Sanders’ senior adviser Tad…
Will Voters Turn Out for Political and Climate Revolution in Canada?
On the eve of Canadian elections on Monday, progressives have issued a call to all corners of the country in an attempt to rally voters to the polls, saying the future of the nation—and perhaps the planet—depends on it. One of the primary issues facing voters this election is the dominance of the tar sands…
Flood of Western Weapons Fueling Unrest, Extremism Across Middle East
Western nations—led by the United States—are selling large quantities of weapons to governments in the Middle East and North Africa, providing little oversight for how these arms are used, and thereby fueling corruption and conflict in countries from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, a new report (pdf) from the watchdog organization Transparency International finds. The investigation…
Super Storms Keep Coming as Yemen and Oman Brace for Cyclone Chapala
Government authorities in war-torn Yemen as well as officials in neighboring Oman are urging people to evacuate coastal areas on Sunday as a very powerful—and extremely rare—cyclone readies to make landfall. #CycloneChapala Tweets Cyclone Chapala has now been categorized as the second-strongest tropical storm ever recorded in the Arabian Sea, fitting itself into a pattern…