Florida is to become the first state in the United States to recognise child to parent violence – a form of domestic violence when a child or adolescent causes physical, psychological or financial damage to gain control over a parent. The Florida legislature passed FL House Bill 1199 unamimously on Wednesday April 3rd. The bill…
Originally published in VICE Magazine, April 3, 2017. Don Elias is taking life easy. At nearly 70 years old, most of his working life has been spent in the coffee fields of Quindío—an unbelievably beautiful Andean region—first with his father, and then, for the past two decades, on his own four-hectare plantation. About 180 miles…
Originally published on Sputnik, March 31, 2017. A new study has revealed that US heroin use has increased almost five fold in a decade. A spokesperson for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Dr. Kamran Niaz, told Sputnik that the crisis is a major epidemic, and that the excessive level of abuse of prescription…
Originally published on Sputnik, March 30, 2017. With the UK’s Brexit negotiations finally triggered, the EU faces the prospect of losing one of it’s strongest economic partners. John Hardy, a financial analyst at the Danish Investment Saxo Bank, told Sputnik’s Nima Green that a recession within the Eurozone within the next three years is likely.…
Originally published on Sputnik, March 30, 2017. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has announced that Turkey’s combat operations in Syria have ended. That’s despite both Daesh and Kurdish militants continuing to be operational. Political analyst Aydin Sezer told Sputnik’s Nima Green that the “success” is a sham, designed to bolster nationalist domestic support for the…
Originally published on Sputnik, March 25, 2017. As a swirl of jibes continues to raise the hackles of both Turkish and European officials across Europe and Turkey, the UK stands as an outlier. Diplomatic relations – at least publicly – have been cordial. A new report by the UK Foreign Affairs Select Committee is calling on the…
Originally published on Sputnik, March 9, 2017. North Korea’s decision to fire ballistic missiles towards Japan on Monday continues to alarm the Asia-Pacific region. Jonathan Bogais, a specialist in foreign affairs, told Sputnik’s Nima Green, that North Korea’s actions are pushing some Japanese lawmakers to consider pre-emptive action against the pariah state, currently forbidden by…
Originally published on Sputnik, November 17, 2016. A market research firm IDTechEx has dismissed claims by tech companies that the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), devices that have Internet access, is the future of technology. One leading cybersecurity expert has told Sputnik’s Nima Green that serious vulnerabilities, including the risk of being hacked, is a…
Originally published on Sputnik, October 14, 2016. Conservationists have turned to utilizing military know-how to ensure a new wild colony of red squirrels is protected from gray squirrels in Wales. Biologist and Director of Red Squirrels Trust Wales, Dr. Craig Shuttleworth told Sputnik how his team is employing “tactical military strategies” to defend the red…
Originally published in VICE Magazine, February 25, 2016. Peering through the slowly fading fog, I disembarked from the ferry. Behind me lay the Canadian shore of Newfoundland. Ahead, I could make out France’s tricolour blustering furiously in the wind above a sleepy port. I’d arrived in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the last bastion of France’s once…
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