Nasa astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have finally arrived back on Earth after nine months in space. A SpaceX Dragon capsule containing Wilmore and Williams, along with Nasa’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Aleksandr Gorbunov, splashed down off the coast of Florida after a 17-hour descent on Tuesday evening, March 18. Within an hour,…
Photograph Source: Tilman2007 – CC BY-SA 4.0 With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture, states are galloping to whatever point of presumed sanctuary is on offer. The general presumption is that the galloping is done in the same step and rhythm. But Europe, for…
October 2023: The Crisis Erupts The political turmoil in Rivers State began on October 29, 2023, when Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Edison Ehie, allegedly led arsonists to set part of the Assembly complex on fire. The attack was reportedly driven by concerns that lawmakers planned to begin impeachment proceedings…
Kanye West has shared troubling tweets about his former friends Jay-Z and Beyonce’s younger children. The rapper has been on X calling many people out and making incendiary statements. In a recent tweet, he claimed, without evidence, that Beyonce’s younger children, who are rarely seen, are retarded. He wrote: “Wait has anyone ever seen Jay-Z…
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As a Catholic-educated youth from the Midwest, now in my eighties, I am appalled by the President’s current policy of mass deportation. I view the nationwide ICE raids and harsh treatment of detainees as sorely lacking in the social justice of religious teaching. Operating without moral limits, the indiscriminate deportation…
