Moon Magic: Leo Full Moon

Full Moons are a time of culmination and completion of cycles that call our attention to turn inward and reflect on what is no longer serving our growth and development.

China: Imprisoned Tibetan Monk’s Health in Peril

(New York) – The Chinese government should immediately and unconditionally release the imprisoned Tibetan monk and religious philosopher Go Sherab Gyatso, Human Rights Watch said today.

Kazakhstan: Set Independent Inquiry into January Events

(Berlin) – The Kazakhstan government should invite international experts to join its domestic investigative efforts into serious human rights violations during the January 2022 protests and violence to ensure that the results are seen as credible, Human Rights Watch said today. The statement followed a meeting between Mukhtar Tileuberdi, Kazakhstan’s

UK Energy Price Hike Threatens to Worsen Poverty Crisis

Last week, the United Kingdom government raised the price energy providers can charge customers by 54 percent in response to rising fossil fuel costs, putting the human right to an adequate standard of living at risk for millions. Poverty rates have risen sharply in UK households with children over the

Most Bottled Water Contaminated With Plastics

STORY AT-A-GLANCE This article was previously published April 21, 2018, and has been updated with new information.

George Soros, where is my money?

How the psycho-social mind gets intensively manipulated by the use that media makes of ideas and the object that these ideas recall on the society as a whole

Report: IRS to Stop Using Face-Recognition Tech Following Backlash

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it will no longer use face-recognition technology for taxpayers who are interacting with the agency online, CBS News reported on Tuesday.

New Approach to Build Back Better: Ban E-Retail, Bring Back Trad Shops

The president of the French-speaking Socialist Party has called for an end to e-commerce in Belgium, saying that he wants ‘real shops’ to operate in the country instead.

New UK Alcohol Tax Risking the Future of Pubs: Industry Group

Publicans are braced for a planned new booze tax coming next year, with alcohol trade associations warning of a devastating impact on the industry from even more taxes.

Burundi’s Vicious Crackdown Never Ended

In June 2020, when Évariste Ndayishimiye was sworn in as Burundi’s president after the unexpected death of his brutal, autocratic predecessor, Pierre Nkurunziza, he pledged to “uphold unity among Burundians” and deliver “peace and justice for all.” Yet for the last year and a half, his government has

Defining Meditation: Foundations for an Activity-Based Phenomenological Classification System

Classifying different meditation techniques is essential for the progress of meditation research, as this will enable discerning which effects are associated with which techniques, in addition to supporting the development of increasingly effective and efficient meditation-based training programs and clinical interventions. However, both the task of defining meditation itself, as

Presleep Ruminating on Intrusive Thoughts Increased the Possibility of Dreaming of Threatening Events

This study investigated whether ruminating on an intrusive thought before sleeping led to an increased likelihood of dreaming of threatening events.

Inattentive Perception, Time, and the Incomprehensibility of Consciousness

Cerebral energy supply is insufficient to support continuous neuronal processing of the plethora of time-constant objects that we are aware of.

Bahrain: Boys Arbitrarily Detained in Orphanage

(Beirut) – Bahrain authorities are detaining six boys, ages 14 and 15, in a child welfare facility, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy and Human Rights Watch said today.

No One Can Tolerate Permanent Fever, High Antibodies

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Endless COVID-19 booster shots are being presented as the solution to the pandemic, as repeated injections increase the level of antibodies in your body.