Understand the Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, December 31, 2012 The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky In this expanded edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and […]
Read More →Four mobile apps every reporter should use in 2013
by Margaret Looney With smartphone costs dropping as the devices become more readily available worldwide, it is easier than ever to have a reporting toolkit at your fingertips. It’s also easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of apps. To simplify matters, here are four apps that fulfill most of a mobile journalist’s […]
Read More →In Africa, lots of good news in the fight against AIDS
A government medical worker at the National AIDS & STI Control Program, NASCOP, looks on March 29, 2012 at an HIV rapid test kits that was among those recalled by the Kenyan government from its clinics earlier in the year. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) Major funding to fight AIDS in Africa, initiated by George W. Bush, […]
Read More →Two amateur astronomers in Russia were said to have found the Comet ISON, named after the International Scientific Optical Network that made the discovery. Alexander Besant
Comet with tail heading toward the sun may outshine the moon A newly discovered comet that is heading toward the sun may prove to be the celestial event of the century. (Ligustri Rolando/NASA/Courtesy) What do you think? A newly discovered comet has the potential to outshine the moon says NASA. Two amateur astronomers in Russia were said […]
Read More →Where is Eritrea’s Information Minister Ali Abdu? (Mohamed Keita – CPJ)
By Mohamed Keita, CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed, government spokesman and censor-in-chief of the Red Sea nation, has been invisible in the past few weeks. The total absence of any independent press in Eritrea has allowed the government to maintain complete silence in the face of mounting questions and surging […]
Read More →America Invades Africa: The Resource War and the Conquest of Mali
By Timothy Alexander Guzman Global Research, December 13, 2012 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-invades-africa-the-resource-war-and-the-invasion-of-mali/5315477 The United States African Command (AFRICOM) was created in 2007 under then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush Administration as a Military Command center that covers the entire continent of Africa. They wanted to create a permanent footprint in Africa […]
Read More →If There Was Ever a Time for Peace — It’s Now
2012 is quickly drawing to a close, and while many celebrate the season with family and friends, the war machine maintains its imperial depravity with total disregard for humanity and an insatiable appetite for power and profit. And big media lends it credibility because morally bankrupt leaders and institutions of power keep them on their […]
Read More →Military Escalation, Dangerous Crossroads: Russia-US Confrontation in Syria?By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
On December 14, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed a Pentagon order to deploy 400 US missile troops to Turkey. According to Washington, the security of Turkey, NATO’s heavyweight, is threatened. US military personnel will to be deployed to Turkey in the coming weeks to operate two US Patriot missile batteries. According to the Pentagon’s spokesman, […]
Read More →The U.S. and Israel have made a Joke of the United Nations Security Council
Glenn Greenwald is a prominent American journalist, author, lawyer and blogger. His writings and articles have appeared on several newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Conservative, The National Interest and In These Times. Greenwald has received different awards including the first Izzy Award for independent journalism in […]
Read More →How to Criticize the Israeli Government
By David Swanson The other day I tweeted an article that reported on a rather horrible story. It seems that the Israeli government gives African women drugs that keep them from reproducing. I think if this story had been about Canada, Korea, France, or Brazil people would have read it. The conversation would not have […]
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