Dow, DuPont announce plans for $130 billion merger
Late last week, Dow and DuPont announced plans for a $130 billion mega merger. The merger is expected to take place in the second half of 2016, after which the parent company will break...
Tagged: Shannon Young
Trans-Pacific Partnership text released – a look at what’s inside
The New Zealand government released the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, the White House followed suit hours later. The massive trade deal, which includes 12 countries and 40% of the world’s economy,...
U.S. Senate passes CISA, a “cybersecurity” bill critics say will expand mass surveillance
The U.S. Senate passed the so-called Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act – or CISA – Tuesday evening by a wide 74-21 margin. The overwhelming Senate support for the bill gave little indication that concerns from...
Labeled ‘insider threats’, intelligence whistleblowers face conundrum
In the ramped-up secrecy of post-9/11 America, many of the more controversial revelations about U.S. national security and intelligence agencies have come to light via whistleblowers: conscientious objectors within government agencies. While Edward Snowden...
Q&A: Congress stages another shutdown showdown, toying with federal workers
*The introduction to this story was updated post-publication for inclusion in FSRN Weekly Edition Once again, lawmakers on Capitol Hill came within hours of a government shutdown late Wednesday night, before crafting a temporary...
Q&A: A look at Mexico’s armed conflict through a lens of Drug War Capitalism
Mexico ranks only behind Syria and Iraq in the sheer numbers of deaths due to armed conflict. That’s according to a study released this year by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The bulk...
Mexico marks one-year since mass abduction of Ayotzinapa students
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the abduction and subsequent disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher’s college in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Six people were killed in a series of...
Colombia on the brink of ending its 51-year-long armed conflict
Peace negotiators have reached a major breakthrough to end the Western Hemisphere’s long-running armed conflict. Shannon Young has more. Download Audio After nearly three years of peace talks, the Colombian government and the FARC-...
Q&A: How Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party leader has already shaken up British politics
An outspoken member of British parliament won the post to lead the Labour Party in a surprising landslide victory over the weekend. As Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn is now has a position to eventually...
Independent experts say Mexico’s version of what happened to 43 missing students “didn’t happen”
Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto was in damage control mode Monday after independent experts with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights blew a giant hole in the official version of what happened to 43...
