Is A Nuclear Weapons Free World Possible?
Today is the first day of a two days nuclear security summit hosted by the United States. Leaders from 47 nations will attend the meeting aimed at securing uranium and plutonium stockpiles, and preventing non-state actors to acquire enough plutonium to manufacture a “dirty bomb”. However, nuclear non-proliferation is not enough; the goal of the […]
Poland: A Nation In Shock After The Worst Tragedy Since WWII
Today, the coffin of President Lech Kaczynski arrived in Warsaw as Poland begins a week of mourning. Saturday’s plane crash killed 96 people, including many Polish key senior officials, when the presidential plane crashed in Western Russia. The Polish officials were on their way to a commemoration of a Soviet-era massacre of Poles which occurred […]
Can The War On Poverty Be Revived By A March?
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) is organizing a march from New-Orleans to Detroit, going through Mississippi, Alabama and the Rust Belt to end up in June, in the town which should be called ground zero of the US economic crisis: Detroit Michigan. The goal of the march is to pick up the […]
Census 2010: How Is America Doing?
A news analysis from the Center For Urban Research is giving some clues on who and where are the non-respondents to the 2010 census. The analysis so far is finding wide variations from one city to the next in what degree race and ethnicity affect response rate. Nationally, the Center For Urban Research (CFUR) found […]
Thailand: Red Shirts Defy State Of Emergency
Today, the anti-government movement of the “Red Shirts” took back a satellite TV station despite Thailand’s government media shut down of Thursday following the declaration of a state of emergency. Thousands of Red Shirts stormed the TV station compound overrunning an army barricade, and despite the security forces firing water cannons and tear gas. The […]
