2015 - TERROR IN PARIS. ISIS inspired attacks ravage the City of Lights. From the attack of satirical journalists at the magazine Charlie Hebdo, to the shooting of revelers at a local club, to the attack on Parisian Jews at a local Kosher market. Over 125 Parisian killed and many injured. In the aftermath the Eiffel Tower goes dark to honor the dead.
Paris was under attack by young marginalized French Muslims inspired by the on-line ISIS propaganda machine after generations of Muslims felt treated like second class citizens of the Republic.
Across the Atlantic in the U.S., greater acceptance of the LGBTQ communities. America’s favorite Olympian Bruce Jenner reveals his true gender identity as Caitlyn Jenner. The Supreme Court rules Gay Marriage legal in all 50 States.
In American Politics, below progressive’s radar, a growing far right Republican movement was changing the fabric of America, forcing moderate John Boehner, Speaker of the House to hand his gavel. Paul Ryan inherits an unruly House of Representative, full of a Tea Party Republican majority. The Senate now in the control of Mitch McConnell was formulating its own conservative agenda as the new Republican group of Presidential candidates were making headlines.
Hillary Clinton underwent hours of testimony before Congress related to classified emails sent on her private home computer server some of which had been deemed “secret”. As the soon to be Democratic Presidential Candidate, her opponent Donald Trump would later effectively use the nickname “Crooked Hillary” to criticize her for this and other trumped up misdeeds.
Progress in the fight against Global Warming was celebrated with the signing of the The Paris Climate Accord agreed to by many industrial polluting nations.
Greek Debt loomed as a threat to the strength of the Euro and its recovery after the World Financial Crisis.