Department of Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul
This isn't exactly Michael McCaul's title/position. In addition to being the U.S. Representative for Texas's 10th congressional district, he is Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Mon Mar 27 2017 10:22:09 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Slaves are producing many of the things we buy, and in the process they are forced to destroy our shared environment, increase global warming, and wipe out protected species
I'm surprised that I find this surprising.
The good news is that slavery can be stopped. We know how to bust slaveholders and free slaves, we know how much it costs and where to start, and we know that freed slaves tend to be willing workers in the rebuilding of our natural world. Ending slavery is a step forward in fixing our earth. There’s always been a moral case for stopping slavery; now there’s an environmental reason too.
Good new, yes, but also depressing: we know this, and yet slavery still exists.
Kleptocratic governments
A government of thievery. I didn't know this was a thing.
The Second Congo War is the modern world’s greatest forgotten war. Raging from 1998 to 2003, and overshadowed on the global stage by the events of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent “War on Terror,” it involved eight countries and about twenty-five armed groups. By its end 5.4 million people were dead, a body count second only to the two world wars.
Unbelievable
until the Second World War
Also unbelievable. How come we're not taught this stuff in high school?