Almost half of the world-over 3 Billion people- has to survive with less than $2.50 per day. The current events unfolding in Thailand, India and Kyrgyzstan have a lot more to do with the problems of poverty and social injustice than conventional ideological issues. In Thailand, the Red Shirts are the poor from the rural [...]
12 million attend today’s Tea Parties! At least, this is a possible headline from conservative websites today who have demonstrated a deliberate propaganda campaign of artificially elevating their attendance numbers at every Tea Party event. What the true number will end up being far less.
Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) made a commitment in 2004 to speak almost daily on the floor of the House of Representatives on the US’s war policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, she gave her 350th speech. Here it is in its entirety. FOR THE 350TH TIME: BRING OUR TROOPS HOME APRIL 14, 2010 Madam Speaker, [...]
President Barack Obama’s cancellation of a key space program at NASA has angered not only space-enthusiasts and legendary astronauts, but leading the pack is also Lockheed Martin. Obama has increased NASA’s budget by $6 billion so that more funding can go to research and to improve operations of the International Space Station for the next [...]
At the Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama appealed to countries to get rid of the nuclear weapons material which they received from the US under the 1950s Atoms for Peace program. (Dispersing nuclear weapons material, albeit for peaceful purposes, is now thought to be dangerous.) President Obama proved that collection efforts are progressing. Ukraine announced, [...]
