Obama: Letting Down Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injuries
During his presidential campaign, candidate Obama made many promises to veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. However, a new investigative report conducted by ProPublica and NPR shows that President Obama has failed to deliver on most of his promises made as a candidate in term of giving veterans the health care they so desperately need and […]
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.
Israel: Thousands Protest Gaza Blockade
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 […]
UN’s Ban Ki-Moon Calls On Israel To Lift The Blockade On Gaza
Yesterday, the United Nations Human Rights Council decided to send an independent fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law resulting from the Israeli attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza. The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution strongly condemning the attack by a vote of 32 in favor to 3 against […]
Obama: No Political Cojones In Dealing With BP And Israel
The deep water BP oil spill is making the headlines on the White House web site. Yesterday on the White House blog the headline was “A Full and Vigorous Accounting of the Events”. It is a catchy headline, but it is deceiving and once again misguided. The response of the Obama administration in the last […]
