France & Germany Show The Power Of Reconciliation
At exactly 11:00 AM, on November 11 1918, Germany capitulated and signed an armistice treaty to end World War I. World War I is called the Great War, and a lot of people who fought in it thought it would be “the war to end all wars”. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the case. The madness did […]
Are We Running Out Of Oil?
According to a whistle-blower, which is a senior official at the International Energy Agency, the global oil reserves are overestimated. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is based in Paris, and is supposed to be an independent energy watchdog. According to the IEA’s whistle-blower, the world is much closer to running out of oil than official […]
Obama’s Afghan Plan: A Victory For The Industrial-Military Complex
Latest update at 8:00 PM US (PST): The White House is strongly denying the validity of the CBS report. At 9:47 PM US(EDT) CBS News posted this editor’s note ahead of David Martin’s article:The White House has issued the following response to this story, attributed to White House National Security Adviser James Jones. “Reports that […]
Too Many Walls Remain In Our Globalized World
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, warned world leaders against complacency in the quest for freedom, human rights and cultural diversity; stressing that the battles for these universal values were not yet won. “The fall of the Berlin Wall, twenty years ago, […]
Japanese Want The US Military Out Of Japan
Sixty four years after the end of World War II, 47,000 US troops are still stationed in Japan. Today, an estimated 21,000 Japanese rallied in Okinawa in protest of the US military base on the island. The rally is putting pressure on the new center-left government just days before the visit of President Obama. The […]
