Nepotism: Sarkozy’s True Color
It should be now increasingly clear for French people that President Nicolas Sarkozy is constantly overreaching at the edge or even outside the legal boundaries of his public office in order to satisfy his insatiable quest for power and financial gains for himself, his political allies, and of course the members of his own family. […]
UN’s Navi Pillay Takes On Caste Discrimination
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has issued a strong and eloquent call on the world to end caste discrimination like it did apartheid and slavery. The organizations Human Rights Watch, the National Campaign On Dalit Human Rights, and the International Dalit Solidarity Network have all endorsed Pillay’s and the UN’s […]
Italy: Berlusconi Cracks Down On The Freedom of The Press
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is also a media mogul in control of about 3/4 of Italian media, he owns TV stations, newspapers, magazines, and also a major soccer team. Berlusconi has the tools to control the message, and he has been exercising that power during all of his political career. The only possible comparison […]
Feingold Leads The Fight For Our Rights Against The Patriot Act
On October 1ST, the Senate Judiciary Committee began its debate on a version of a bill to extend the Patriot Act. It was a very troubling start falling far short of including much needed civil liberties and rights of privacy protections. The water-down version of the bill proposed by Senators Feinstein & Leahy is not […]
Michael Moore For President 2012
Tonight, Michael Moore is doing free screening of his new film “Capitalism:A Love Story”, for the jobless and homeless in America’s hardest hit cities. Ever since “Roger & Me”, Michael Moore has worked tirelessly to take on the system. But with his new film he has pushed the envelop like never before to denounce the […]
