World Cup 2010: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game
The World Cup will kick off in just three days, and it is the first time that the biggest sporting event worldwide is being held on the African continent. Since the end of apartheid, 21 years ago, South Africa has apparently come a long way, and the mega sporting event is supposed to showcase the […]
Helen Thomas: No Apologies Necessary
Helen’s opinions were apparently wrong simply because they didn’t reflect the opinion of the majority. There was no hate speech, just an opinion about a nations foreign policy. Unfortunately, it did not agree with the majority, or, according to Gibbs, the administration. Therefore, a valuable, veteran, White House journalist of nearly sixty years and ten presidents, must be resigned and have her name smeared.
Bhopal’s Verdict: A Parody Of Justice 25 Years Later
On Monday, an Indian court sentenced eight former Union Carbide executives to two years in jail over the 1984’s Bhopal gas leak that poisoned ten of thousands of people. More than 25 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster the former executives, including Keshub Mahindra who was the chairman of the Indian division of US […]
Global Solutions: Let’s Play “Grown-Ups.”
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.
Yemen: US Strikes Used Cluster Bombs And Killed 41 Civilians
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 […]
