Daily Brief Archive

Jun 30, 2023 Daily Brief

Draconian Sentencing in California; The EU Fails on China, Again; UN Votes to Help Syrian Families of the Missing; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Weekly Quiz!; Update: Good News on Deforestation; Quote of the Day: US Supreme Court Outlaws Affirmative Action.

Joseph Bell (left) and Remi King at the California Legislature Building to advocate for passage of SB 300, which would remove the current requirement that anyone convicted under the felony murder rule receive either a death sentence or life without parole.
Jun 29, 2023 Daily Brief

The Disastrous “Australia Model”; A Year of Marcos in the Philippines; A Step toward Justice in Venezuela; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: UN/Israel; Listen: Europe’s Complicity in Mediterranean Deaths; Quote of the Day: Life without Parole in California.

Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru, September 3, 2018.
Jun 28, 2023 Daily Brief

Mixed Message in the UN’s “List of Shame”; South Africa Failing Older People; What New York Can Do for Tropical Forests; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: EU Policy of Suffering; Quote of the Day: Iran.

A three-story house that reportedly had 30 members of one Palestinian family destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza, May 13, 2023.
Jun 27, 2023 Daily Brief

Politicians against the Courts in Turkey; Still Seeking Justice and Democracy in Eswatini; The Search for Syria’s Missing; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Update: EU Migration Paranoia; Quote of the Day: South Africa.

In defiance of a ban on all Pride events in Istanbul and full police lockdown, demonstrators assembled in the backstreets of Nişantaşı neighborhood near Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey, June 25, 2023.
Jun 26, 2023 Daily Brief

Short-Lived Insurrection, Lingering Fears; Is Spain Ready for Its Next Heatwave?; A Victory for Trans Rights in the US; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: LGBT Rights in Muslim Asia.

Servicemen of the Wagner Group military company guard an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. (AP Photo)
Jun 23, 2023 Daily Brief

Banning Eco-Group Won’t Make Climate Crisis Go Away; The Melilla Massacre, One Year On; Peru: Girls Not Mothers; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Listen: Sportswashing in Football; Quote of the Day: UN, Israel, Palestine; Correction: Japan.

Mobile riot gendarmes policing a protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France March 2023.
Jun 22, 2023 Daily Brief

Escalating Ethnic Attacks in Darfur; Uniting to Prevent Another Disastrous World Cup; A Rainbow over the Baltic; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Update: Windrush at 75; Quote of the Day: Venezuela.

A Sudanese refugee who fled the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, at her makeshift shelter in Koufroun, Chad, May 15, 2023.
Jun 20, 2023 Daily Brief

Cyclone Mocha’s Victims Denied Help in Myanmar; Automated Neglect in Jordan; A Victory for Native Children’s Rights in the US; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: The EU’s Policy of Suffering; Quote of the Day: Sudan.

 Local residents walk past damaged buildings after Cyclone Mocha in Sittwe township, Rakhine State, Myanmar, May 16, 2023.