You can’t solve environmental or social problems if you can’t rationally discuss realistic solutions. Any hope of finding a real solution is abandoned in favour of feeling marginally better today. Whether due to ignorance or an inner sense of hopelessness this approach advocates placebos and panaceas. Far from being a positive, empowering approach, it screams of despair as well as causing it.
An outpouring of support is reflected on the Facebook wall of Helen Thomas’ page. Thomas resigned or was dismissed from working as a reporter in the White House for a ‘controversial’ comment she made denouncing Zionism. The 89-year-old journalist had been working at the White House since 1960 as a correspondent for United Press International [...]
Amnesty International says that they have evidence American missiles were fired in a “target killing” attack against Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen in which 41 civilians were killed including 14 women and 21 children. The use of such strikes, either conducted by drones, in the case of Pakistan or Afghanistan, or by missiles fire from ships [...]
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake was felt in south Los Angeles and areas of downtown at 2:17 a.m. on Monday morning. According to the US Geological Survey website, the location of the small earthquake was Santa Monica Bay, five miles away from Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach. No injuries or damage has been reported. Full earthquake [...]
On Saturday, thousands of Israeli demonstrators held a march and a rally in Tel Aviv to protest, not only the blockade of the Gaza strip but also 43 years of Israel’s occupation of the West-Bank. The protesters marched between Rabin Square to the Tel Aviv museum where speeches were given. The main slogan of the [...]
