Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. On the blue field are Cai Qi (left) and Thomas Bach (right) / Presidential Executive Office of Russia / Flickr / 4 February 2022 / CC BY 4.0 The 2022 Olympics have been underway for about a week now, and amid the excitement and patriotism of cheering on our American athletes, there is controversy brewing under the surface of the ice. What’s hidden behind the curtain is China’s dark past and history of human rights abuses…
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The School Safety Crisis: Omicron Takes Over The Classroom
More Schools and Masks and COVID / Phil Roeder / Flickr / July 16, 2020 / CC BY 2.0 The Omicron variant doesn’t seem to be quieting down, and as a result, has caused major outages in schools across the country. The stress this is causing on teachers has been blowing up, school staff in California are demanding that school districts take more serious COVID-19 precautions. In Chicago, negotiations are brewing between the Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago School District over the implementation of additional COVID measures, meanwhile, members…
Read MoreBiden Announces The U.S. Official Boycott of the 2022 Olympics
The U.S. has officially decided to stage a formal boycott against the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing, as a protest against China’s major human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region. Also being referred to as the ‘Genocide Olympics’, this upcoming Olympic games is being held in a country where the government does not seem to have any ethical concern for their people. The White House has confirmed that there will not be any U.S. officials or diplomatic representation at this game, as “U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these…
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