Pepsi Linked to Child Labor and Worker Exploitation Alternet Children as young as 13 years old were seen working on plantations supplying palm oil to the food giant. | American food multinational PepsiCo’s Indonesia-made products are linked to child labor, unethically low wages, and worker exploitation, a ne...
Should Prostitution Be Decriminalized? Alternet It is becoming increasingly difficult for naysayers to ignore the well-documented ways that sex workers are harmed by criminalization. | Editor’s note: This article is part of our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program from WGBH which next a...
Brexit: Will a Remain vote be better for Britain and Europe? asiatimes Today, Britain will cast a historic and decisive vote on whether to leave or remain in the European Union, a 65-year-old regional bloc it joined in 1973. | This is the United Kingdom’s second referendum on its continued membership in the EU. In 1975, it held a similar vote and 67% of its electorate voted to stay in the then European Economic Comm...
Obama and FBI confirm Pulse nightclub shooter was radicalized on the internet The Guardian James Comey says Omar Mateen was inspired ‘by foreign terrorist organizations’ but there is no evidence of a link to a foreign network | The man who killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub in the worst gun rampage in US history, was strongly radicalized using the internet, Barack Obama and the head of the FBI have confirmed. | The US president...
