Politics

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is defending herself after comparing detention centers along the United States-Mexico border to “concentration camps.” And everyone else is just freaking out. Ocasio-Cortez first made the remarks on Monday during a live stream on Instagram. “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding: “I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say… that ‘never again’ means something.” The next morning, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out an Esquire article where an expert on the history of concentration camps compared the centers on the country’s southern border to them, adding that her definition of it was “mass detention of civilians without trial.” …

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is defending herself after comparing detention centers along the United States-Mexico border to “concentration camps.” And everyone else is just freaking out. Ocasio-Cortez first made the remarks on Monday during a live stream on Instagram. “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding: “I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say… that ‘never again’ means something.” The next morning, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out an Esquire article where an expert on the history of concentration camps compared the centers on the country’s southern border to them, adding that her definition of it was “mass detention of civilians without trial.” …

Brazil, home of the Amazon rainforest and some of the world’s richest biodiversity, has approved over 1,000 new pesticide products in recent years, according to a new report by Greenpeace UK’s news agency Unearthed. The spike in pesticides being registered and approved in Brazil has primarily occurred since 2016 under the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro and his conservative predecessor, Michel Temer, in a push to deregulate the environment and bolster agriculture. The use of over 1,200 pesticides and weedkillers has been given the go-ahead under their command, including 193 containing chemicals banned in the EU. Among these are atrazine, a herbicide that chemically castrates frogs, and paraquat, a pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease in humans.  Unearthed’s investigation also found that many of these …

What is Sciatica? Sciatica is the term used to describe nerve pain in the buttocks, legs and feet. It is caused when the sciatic nerve – the longest nerve in the body – becomes compressed or irritated. If you’re suffering with pain that radiates down the back of your leg and into your feet, it could be sciatica. Do you prefer a video? Click here to fast view. What is the Sciatic Nerve? The sciatic nerve starts at the lower spine before running through the buttock, down the back of the thigh and into the foot. It’s an important nerve that sends signals from the spinal cord to the entire lower body. Because of its location and length, the sciatic …