Business unusual: How big food propaganda was designed to produce wealth, ignore healthy living
Davis believed “a great deal” of the health problems of her day, including mental health problems, were related to refined foods – the early versions of today’s processed and ultra-processed foods – as nutrients like vitamins, minerals and healthy fats are removed during the processing and then sugars and hydrogenated trans fats are added in.
In Museveni’s Uganda democracy buckled, now Busoga Kingdom is pushing for some autonomy
There aren’t many Basoga and Ugandans that can overstretch their imagination 100 years ahead to imagine what kind of World, Busoga or Uganda will be in the next century. So few are even aware to what extent the World Wide Web has changed knowledge and the way we generate and treat knowledge to make people have higher cognitive powers, engage in critical thinking, engage in critical analysis, become professionals of the future and engage in genuine teamwork for change.
Transition: Light goes out on US second longest-lived First Lady Rosalynn Carter aged 96 years
The Carters were married for more than 77 years, forging what they both described as a “full partnership.” Unlike many previous first ladies, Rosalynn sat in on Cabinet meetings, spoke out on controversial issues and represented her husband on foreign trips. Aides to President Carter sometimes referred to her – privately – as “co-president.”
2024: America descends from glamourised high pedestal of democracy to pariah as political violence looms
In his 2024 campaign, Trump has ramped up his combative rhetoric with talk of retribution against his enemies. He recently joked about the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi and suggested that retired Gen. Mark Milley, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, should be executed for treason.
Deal reached to pause fighting in Gaza for five days as death toll from Israeli airstrikes crosses 12,300
Under the agreement, all parties would freeze combat operations for at least five days while 50 or more hostages are released in groups every 24 hours, the Post reported. Hamas took about 240 hostages during its October 7 rampage inside Israel that killed 1,200 people.
Uganda can no longer afford disorder to reign in public transport, Iganga Municipality should lead redemption
When I asked Chairman Nalugoda what plans he had to improve the utility of the park and make it just a bus park, he told me, “My management team is almost helpless. Higher authorities must develop a proper plan for the park. The municipality is expanding and will need a properly constructed park. If they want they could move the park elsewhere and leave their current space for businesses.
Every dog has its day! Snoop Dogg won’t be puffing and huffing weed, wants fans not to dog him
Asking for privacy, hip-hop legend and longtime marijuana enthusiast Snoop Dogg says he’s going to stop smoking – although he didn’t specify exactly what that might mean. “After much consideration and conversation with my family, I’ve decided to give up smoke,” Snoop wrote in a message shared on Instagram and...
Israel orders Palestinians who fled attacks on Gaza City to move again as airstrikes kills 32
Al Shifa has been a primary target of Israel’s ground advance, with its military saying that the hospital sits above a vast underground Hamas bunker. Hamas and hospital staff say this is false and that Israel’s findings there have so far established no such thing.
Bus passengers in Kenyan coastal city cling on rope to wade through chest-high rain water
Heavy rains followed by flash floods have submerged towns across East Africa, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
East African universities should be centres of innovation and creativity, not dogmatic thinking
Galileo Galilei deplored the academic practice of his professors of always hyping Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen as the unchallengeable authorities in the academia. It was taboo to question those three authorities in the academia. They were the beginning and end of knowledge. Galileo wanted to hear the voices of his professors reflecting their own thoughts, not those of ancient thinkers.
