Monthly Archives: December 2020

Guatemala Plight

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

Decades of U.S. policy in Guatemala alone have turned the country into a land of wreck and ruin. This is the ultimate reason migrants have been crossing into the United States in increasing numbers in recent months. Harsh immigration enforcement … Continue reading →

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Guantánamo

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

The use of torture has persisted at the U.S. military-run Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba despite it being banned by both U.S. and international law, according to information obtained by a top United Nations human rights investigator. These allegations come … Continue reading →

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Gary Webb – Dark Alliance

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist. He began his career working for newspapers in Kentucky and Ohio, winning numerous awards, and building a strong reputation for investigative writing. Hired by the San Jose Mercury … Continue reading →

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Ferguson and the Michael Brown Killing

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old African American man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Johnson contradicted this account, stating that … Continue reading →

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, oil leak, or oil disaster; the Gulf of Mexico oil spill; and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the … Continue reading →

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Death Penalty

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

According to Amnesty International, there are sixty-eight countries that retain the death penalty and carry out executions. But even thisnumber is misleading. In reality, the vast majority of the world’s executions are carried out by seven nations: China, Iran, Saudi … Continue reading →

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Cuba – U.S. Embargo

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

This nearly-55-year old policy is actually a set of several laws that impose commercial, financial, and economic restrictions on the small island country. Ostensibly, the embargo was supposed to build popular resistance that might culminate in ousting the Castro government. … Continue reading →

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Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

On December 18, 1979, the United Nations approved The Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). As of 2020, 187 nations out of the 194 member nations of the UN have approved this convention or treaty. The … Continue reading →

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Contras – Nicaragua

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

Iran — the former U.S.-ally-turned-enemy after 1979′s Islamic revolution, now in a war with Iraq and desperately needing military aid — had sway with the hijackers. That gave rise to a hidden network, using unsavory middlemen, of trading arms for … Continue reading →

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Climate Crisis

Posted on December 11, 2020 by mekorganic

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday argues based on “current trends of population declines and extinctions” that we are currently witnessing Earth’s “sixth mass extinction.” While scientists have stated that much … Continue reading →

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