News from around the world June 7 and 8, 2013
Two debt-ridden farmers commit suicide in Andhra India - The Hindustan Times reports that Two debt-ridden farmersallegedly committed suicide in this district of Andhra Pradesh, police said on...
View ArticleNGO’s often work “in partnership” to promote corporate deception and...
ADDENDUM: I want to add the comment that I believe most NGO's unknowingly work in partnership to promote corporate deception. In the United States, Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are typically...
View ArticleWill the neoliberal managed democracy we have in the USA be dismantled?
It will be interesting to see how the coming five years unfold, but it is more than clear that people are fed up with neoliberal economics that have been spewing out of the USA since the days of Milton...
View ArticleLooks like we can expect to see more and more of Nicaragua in the News
Nicaragua Is Soon to be Home to a Canal Built by the Chinese First of all on June 13 Nicaragua accepted the $40+ billion dollar offer from the Chinese to build a canal through Nicaragua. This one...
View ArticleYes, Houston, there is a huge cultural divide between the USA and Egypt
I looked at the photo below and thought OMG! There is no way that would be acceptable in the USA if hell froze and thawed three times. I cannot imagine any US citizen seeing this ever and not being...
View ArticleUnited Stasi of America?
Berlin police are investigating a light artist for projecting the phrase "United Stasi of America" onto the the US Embassy in Berlin. The phrase refers to the former East German secret police and was...
View ArticleTell Congress NO SYRIA WAR!
REMIND CONGRESS THAT IT'S TIME FOR THE USA TO STOP ACTING LIKE THE WORLD'S POLICEMAN! So far we've delivered over 23,000 emails to Congress - and it's working! Even though Congress is on vacation,...
View ArticleWhy is the USA drawing the line at 1,400 deaths in Syria?
I heard president Obama say today that Syria gassing 1,400 of its citizens is "not acceptable." Does this mean that it is "acceptable" to kill 10 or 20 citizens, or perhaps 100 of them? Estimates of...
View ArticleA new kind of Mayor for Messina Italy–the barefoot mayor
Who knows, perhaps this bottom up example will catch on in the current top-down USA. The mayor of Messina, Renato Accorinti, is a non-partisan man of the people. La Vara, the procession of the Madonna,...
View ArticleThe Holocaust no one talks about
The topic of Pilgrims and Indians is fast coming up with our national holiday we call "Thanksgiving" . . . We will be watching children acting out the parts of the Pilgrims and Indians sharing a feast...
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