Acid Attacks Against Women Continue
Acid attacks are common in a number of Asian countries including Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Cambodia(see first photograph) and Bangladesh. In Bangladesh alone, over 2,600 cases of acid attacks have been reported since 1999. Acid attacks are a particularly vicious and damaging form of violence where acid is thrown in people’s faces. The overwhelming majority of […]
GIGO: Turning And Turning In The Widening Gyre
The very good news is that the solution to the garbage patch(es) is technologically feasible, straightforward, and cheap. Even better, it not only deals with the garbage patches, it also goes a long way to solving a plethora of environmental problems from climate change to deforestation. The very bad news is that we don’t want to do it. I refer of course to reducing consumption, radically.
BBC News Worldwide Poll: Global Views Of US Improve
The annual BBC worldwide poll started in 2005. Nearly 30,000 people were polled between November 2009 and February 2010 in 28 countries. The poll surveyed if people had a positive view or a negative view of a country without asking for a reason or justification for the answers collected by the pollsters. As in 2009, […]
Poverty: Half the World Lives on Less than $2.50 a Day
Almost half of the world-over 3 Billion people- has to survive with less than $2.50 per day. The current events unfolding in Thailand, India and Kyrgyzstan have a lot more to do with the problems of poverty and social injustice than conventional ideological issues. In Thailand, the Red Shirts are the poor from the rural […]
Fiscal Year 2009: A Third Of Your Tax Dollars Finances Wars
April 15 is right around the corner, and according to the National Priorities Project from each income tax dollar collected by the Federal government 26.5 cents was spent on the military in 2009, and 13.6 cents was spent to pay for military and non-military interests on the sky rocketing national debt, which currently amounts to […]
