Month: October 2020

British heritage brand Barbour has collaborated with New York label Noah on a menswear collection for autumn/winter 2020 that they state reimagines its classic outerwear pieces with “youthful sophistication”. The collection is inspired by Barbour’s 126-year heritage, with the outerwear pieces showcased in vibrant pop colourways and patchwork designs, while archive Barbour catalogue imagery from the 1980s and 1990s inspires the graphics on cotton T-shirts. The collaboration also includes sweats and accessories influenced by Noah’s…

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It had been a tumultuous weekend for Racing Point, after the team had been forced to find a short-notice replacement for Lance Stroll after the Canadian reported in sick on Saturday morning. After a tricky qualifying session which saw stand-in driver Nico Hulkenberg understandably in last place, Sergio Perez had predicted a ‘painful day’ for the team at the Nurburgring. He suggested that the difficult circumstances the team had found themselves in would mean they…

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Following Tuesday’s State of the Union address, in which he is expected to call on Congress to grant him greater leeway to negotiate a pair of corporate-friendly trade deals with Europe and Asia, President Barack Obama will enlist his Cabinet members to push for Fast Track trade authority on Capitol Hill. Fast Track would speed along passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a pact involving the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries, and the Transatlantic…

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Syriza, the new ruling party in control of the Greek government, revealed its commitment to its anti-austerity campaign promises on Friday as its newly-appointed Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis went toe-to-toe with the head of the head of the European Union’s finance ministry and said Greece would no longer bow to the authority of foreign auditors. Emerging from a meeting in Athens with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch lawmaker who currently heads the Eurogroup overseeing the Greek…

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The Obama administration is continuing its push for controversial legislation that would fast track trade deals including the massive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), now nearing the end stages. The legislation is Trade Promotion Authority, also known as Fast Track, which Rich Bindell of watchdog group Food and Water Watch described as a “highway to hell.” TechDirt‘s Michael Masnick explains that Fast Track The latest pitch for the power came Monday from the nation’s top trade…

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The family of Rachel Corrie—the 23-year-old U.S. activist crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while nonviolently protesting a home demolition in Palestine 12 years ago—was denied justice by Israel’s top court on Thursday. The rejection is the latest stage in the family’s decade-long legal battle to hold Israel liable for Corrie’s death, on charges that the military either killed her deliberately or was negligent. Corrie, who hailed from Olympia, Washington, had been volunteering…

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Roughly 1,500 high school and college students rallied at the Wisconsin Capitol on Monday in the fourth straight day of protests against Friday’s police killing of unarmed black teenager Tony Robinson. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, students from all four Madison high schools as well as Sun Prairie High School, where Robinson graduated in 2014, rallied outside of area schools Monday morning before filling the rotunda and two upper floors of the State Capitol.…

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In a landmark ruling that many hope establishes a new global precedent for a state’s obligation to its citizens in the face of the growing climate crisis, a Dutch court on Wednesday said that the government has a legal duty to reduce carbon emissions by 25 percent by 2020. The decision came in response to a lawsuit, launched in November 2013 by the Amsterdam-based environmental nonprofit Urgenda Foundation along with 600 Dutch citizens, which argued…

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The White House is set to announce Tuesday that it will exempt its Office of Administration from federal rules requiring it to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests, allowing the record-keeping agency to reject transparency asks. Formalizing a de facto policy that was upheld under previous presidencies, the move came in the form of a “final rule,” which means it will be codified without public comment. The action effectively eliminates any formal process for…

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From an original group of 15 individuals no longer willing to pliantly suffer under the crushing financial burden created by the costs of higher education, the movement challenging that nation’s student debt epidemic has now grown to more than 80 people who say they will stop making loan payments in protest of the predatory practices of for-profit colleges and the larger student loan model. As the Washinton Post‘s Danielle Douglas-Gabriel reports: SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH…

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