Remembering Escobar: How Colombian star defender was killed by drug gangs for own goal error at USA World Cup finals
Colombia paid tribute recently to football star Andres Escobar, who was gunned down 20 years ago just days after scoring an own goal at the World Cup finals. The killing, widely said to be an act of revenge for the 27-year-old defender’s own goal, set off international controversy and put...
China and Russia express concern over the ICC’s arrest warrant for Russia President Vladimir Putin
China has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to avoid “politicisation and double standards” after the tribunal issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. During a media briefing on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin also called on the ICC to “uphold...
Experts and rights activists in US accuse CDC of bribing organisations to cover up truth about Covid vaccines
The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offered $66 million over five years to two organisations – the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) and the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA), which are membership-based medical associations. Typical projects from among the hundreds that received...
Covid racism : How US government doled out bribes to push vaccines, collect data in communities of colour
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has since 2021doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for the creation of “culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training “influential messengers” to promote Covid-19 and flu vaccines to communities of colour in every state across the country. The grants...
