Benjamin Arie is an independent journalist and writer. He has personally covered everything ranging from local crime to the U.S. president as a reporter in Michigan before focusing on national politics. Ben frequently travels to Latin America and has spent years living in Mexico.
Treating the humble straw as some sort of rampant tool of terrorists, Brown declared that 'plastic ... has become so ubiquitous it now pervades every aspect of modern life' and 'has led to disastrous consequences.'