A debate is currently raging among personal consumer electronics companies, Congolese activists, and NGOs over whether an American law can finally bring peace to a mining sector in Africa that has sacrificed so much for wealthier countries in the global north.
“Are you ready to strike and refuse to work this Thanksgiving and Black Friday to protest Walmart's bullying?” That is this year’s rallying call from the Organization United for Respect – better known as OUR Walmart – as they try once again to convince Walmart associates across the county to strike on Black Friday.
Critics say over-medicating veterans is a quick fix, and like war itself, will leave its own tragic legacy.
Space weapons are lurking beneath a small town near you. Though this statement sounds like a sci-fi nightmare only the Pentagon could conjure up, an on-going environmental impact study may find states such as Ohio and New York a great place for shooting down Russian or Chinese satellites as they orbit the planet.
The sweeping Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act could bring an end to the resource war that has ravaged the eastern mining regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the last decade and a half.
As more and more retail giants open their doors on the family holiday that used to be known as “Thanksgiving,” more Americans are ditching their families for what is now called “Grey Thursday”, or worse, “Thanks For Shopping Day.”
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