Republication

There were 21 cases in the U.N. mission in Congo, 17 in Central African Republic, three each in South Sudan and Cyprus, and one each in Lebanon, the U.N.-African Union mission in Sudan’s Darfur region, and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in the Middle East. … [Read more...] about UN announces first 2 deaths of UN peacekeepers from COVID-19

The acquisition of the new pieces are set to kick off in June, starting with a piece of art dedicated to immigrant workers and another honoring the first democratically-elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. … [Read more...] about Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to buy work from 24 artists

“While we’ve started to see a leveling off, we expect elevated waste volumes at the curb to persist as residents continue to work from home, and businesses are reopening in phased approaches,” said Tanisha Sanders, director of government affairs and communications for Waste Management in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. … [Read more...] about Central Indiana trash levels surged amid stay-at-home order

Some pointed to the neocons, noting that the architects of the Iraq War (John Bolton aside) had expressed a desire for a competent manager of empire; some even took this to mean that Trump, an avowed and increasingly accomplished militarist, was, if not a dove, at least not a hawk. WikiLeaks founder and fugitive Julian Assange, once considered a fellow traveler by many on the left, offered pro bono campaign advice to the greater but “anti-establishment” evil, telling a sympathetic John Pilger that Hillary, by contrast, was the candidate of “what we call ‘the establishment,’ or the ‘D.C. consensus.’” … [Read more...] about ‘Anti-Establishment’: America’s New Syphilitic Politics of the Far Left and Alt-Right

Despite repeated entreaties from the White House to endorse Obama’s naive hope for “a world without nuclear weapons,” Putin is proceeding to quietly modernize Russia’s own arsenal — while we do not. Notably, Putin has spurned an invitation to the May 20-21 NATO summit in Chicago, where ballistic missile defense is on the agenda. … [Read more...] about Diplomatic Duplicity