All over planet millions of people die of hunger every year. It is not a secret. Our media agencies tell us such facts quite often. Speaking about global inequality is not taboo in Western liberal…
Category: Regions
Ayn Rand: the Tea Party’s Miscast Matriarch Gary Weiss, long time Wall Street reporter and author, has written a new book, due out this week from St. Martin’s Press, on the rising influence of Ayn…
This was a breath of fresh air rather than the usual nonsense we’re hearing from Republicans with more “drill baby drill” as a way to control the price of oil and gasoline we’re seeing rise…
A new independent report on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster reveals that Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan feared events following the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami would require the evacuation of Tokyo. The…
One US soldier and an Afghan protester were killed in the latest violence on the sixth day of Koran burning protests criss-crossing Afghanistan, despite another plea for calm by President Hamid Karzai, dpa reported. … …
Palestine Railways In the last week of February 2012, Israel’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz announced that Israel Railways has prepared a major plan for new railways. This came days after the boring of…
Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman What’s scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its under-inflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may be, he’s not the…
(Image: City Lights Publishers) “Dear White America, Letter to a New Minority [3]” is the latest book by Tim Wise, a specialist on white privilege, and the emergence of white resentment as power becomes shared…
Image: Free Syrian Army “peace soldiers” Nearly a year ago, Western-backed insurgent violence erupted. Heavily armed foreign fighters supplemented internal ones. Al Qaeda’s very much involved. Russian and Chinese peace initiatives are spurned. Washington, rogue…
Ever since its failure to win United Nations Security Council backing for “regime change” in Syria, Washington and its lackeys in the corporate media have been unrelenting in voicing their great moral outrage at both the violence of the Assad regime and the seeming indifference to it all by the likes of Russia and China. Washington is no doubt long in forgetting those that thwart the will of the “international community.” After all, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated, the “travesty” of the Russian and Chinese veto left the entire Security Council “neutered.”