Jack Gross

Aug 15, 2024 | phenomenalworld.org | Tim Barker |Dylan Saba |Jack Gross |Tim Sahay

Martin Luther King once called the United States government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” That formulation may be controversial, but no one denies that the US is by far the world’s biggest arms dealer, with a 42 percent share of the global arms export market.   Since the Cold War, Congress has passed various laws to govern the sale and financing of American weapons and humanitarian aid to foreign states.

Jul 4, 2024 | phenomenalworld.org | Tim Sahay |Kate Mackenzie |Indrajit Roy |Jack Gross

On June 25, crowning a dramatic, nationwide tax revolt, demonstrators in Nairobi stormed Kenya’s parliament buildings. President William Ruto’s new finance bill, introduced in Parliament in May, sought to increase levies on everything from bread and money transfers to sanitary items and cellular data. In response, the “Gen-Z” generation that has been criticized for not being politically active took it upon themselves to organize on TikTok and mobilize in the streets.