Tag: Culture

The Family Profiting From the Opioid Crisis Hides Behind Charity

America is facing an unprecedented public health crisis— opioid addiction and the subsequent loss of many lives. The prescription drug OxyContin has been attributed to many of these deaths. Amazingly, however, little is known about the proprietors of OxyContin— the Sackler family. Their secret? Calculated and lavish acts of philanthropy. America’s Opioid Crisis: a Public Health Issue of Epic Proportions A recent article published in the New...

Big Pharma Billionaire Arrested for Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Opioids

Billionaire and founder of Insys Therapeutics, Dr John Kapoor, has been arrested for his involvement in a diabolical scheme involving his company's top selling opioid drug— Subsys. Curiously, it all went down on the very same day the Trump administration declared America’s opioid crisis as a national public health emergency. According to CBS News, Kapoor was arrested early on Thursday morning at his home in...
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Black Appropriation is the Newest Shade in Swedish Spray Tans

Believe it or not, a company in Sweden is now selling a 'dark chocolate' tanning solution that offers white people with an identity crisis the option...

Welcome to The Library Where You Check Out People, Not Books

Generally speaking, most libraries operate around the same way. You fill out a form to get your library card, find the book you want,...

This Utopic Town in Spain Has No Need For Police Thanks to its Robin Hood Mayor

As of January of this year, the unemployment rate in the United States is 5.7 percent and in Spain it's around 7.6 percent. But...

An Inside Look at Iceland’s LungA Festival 2013

LungA Festival may just be the greatest festival that you've never heard of. You can probably chalk that up partly to the fact that...

Tribe’s Kids Can Literally Swim Underwater Like Mermaids & See Like Dolphins

Every kid (and let's be real, probably every adult) dreams of being able to swim like a mermaid, or see through the ocean like...

Not Allowed To Bike, These Afghan Girls Rip It Up On Skateboards Instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLb-ABe-aVE You'd be hard pressed to find an activity that represents American counter-culture more than skateboarding. In its early 1960s roots, the sport was seen...