April 6, 2018 – Bridge Agents

Could Venomous Snails be Part of the Solution to the Opioid Epidmic?

April 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

(Ensia) – Opioids are powerful pain relievers, but their addictive nature also creates powerful trouble for those who misuse them. Worldwide, millions of people suffer from opioid dependency. Each day more than 1,000 people are treated in emergency rooms across the United States for misusing prescription opioids. In the U.S, alone, roughly 46 people died each day from overdoses involving prescription opioids in 2016. Researchers across the world are searching for solutions to the opioid epidemic. In looking for safer and more effective painkillers, some now are making use of…

For First Time in Decades, Some Pakistani Women Vote

April 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

(HRW) – For the first time in more than 40 years, women turned out in significant numbers to vote in one of Pakistan’s districts. The vote for local government in Upper Dir district of Pakistan’s northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, held last week, was necessary because the previous election, held in 2017, was annulled by the Election Commission of Pakistan because no women had participated. The country’s election law requires at least 10 percent of voters to be women in each constituency for an election to be valid. In October, Pakistan enacted…

What Was The Informant Program That Killed Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar?

April 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

(TFC)— As 2017 ended, news outlets briefly covered the death of Green Beret Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar. According to NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service), Melgar was strangled after discovering at least two SEAL Team 6 operatives stole money fueling an informant program. Coverage then vanished before anyone examined the silent mammoth in the story. What was the informant program that got Staff Sergeant Melgar killed? Short of talking to an operative that was there, those are tough questions to answer. The Fifth Column News attempted to put some bits together…

What You Need to Know About Moving Outside of the US

April 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

With the job market increasing on a global scale, more and more people are looking to move abroad. Whether the motivation stems from escaping the United States or the attraction of a foreign land, there are some tasks that need to be taken care of during the move. Here are a few things you need to know about moving outside of the US. 1. Visas Visas are the permission granted by a sovereign nations to a traveler permitting entry for a specific purpose (Travisa). Visas range in focus from work-permits,…

Today’s youth reject capitalism, but what do they want to replace it?

April 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

United States (Conversation) – Today’s youth are increasingly unhappy with the way their elders are running the world. Their ire was most recently expressed when thousands of teenagers and others across the country marched on March 24 demanding more gun control, a little over a month after more than a dozen of their peers were shot and killed at a high school in Parkland, Florida. But there’s growing evidence that today’s young adults, ranging in age from 18 to 29 or so, are strongly dissatisfied with other fundamental aspects of…