Today, a huge blast right outside the NATO military base left 8 people dead and about 71 wounded. The Taliban claims responsibility for the car bomb. The attack (see photo) took place in what is supposed to be one of the most secured location of Afghanistan, and shows that the Taliban have the ability to [...]
The debate on health care doesn’t qualify as a debate any longer, it has become a battle, a shouting contest in town-hall meetings, between politicians and of course in the media. Further more, I don’t even think the so called “debate” is about health care at all, but more about making people feel anxious about [...]
Today, US Senator Jim Webb arrived in Burma for talks with Than Shwe, the leader of the military junta. The visit comes a few days after the military regime extended the house arrest sentence of opposition leader, Aung Suu Kyi. The sentence drew some strong international condemnations, especially from the EU and the UN. Senator [...]
Today, the organization Human Rights Watch ( HRW) released a new report containing serious allegations that during Israel’s recent Gaza offensive, Israeli soldiers unlawfully shot and killed eleven Palestinian civilians, including five women and four children. According to HRW’s report, the civilians were in a group waving white flags to convey their civilian status. Human [...]
Three Chinese-American students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have killed themselves in the last three months. Two died by helium asphyxiation and the cause of death of the third student, though deemed a suicide, is yet to be determined. Their stories have been covered in the Chinese language media, but remain virtually unreported in the mainstream.
