Oxfam Report: ‘The Global Food System Is Broken’
According to a new report from Oxfam, a broken food system and environmental crisis are reversing decades of progress in the fight against global hunger. Oxfam projects that spiraling food prices will create millions of hungry people unless we radically transform the way we grow and share food. Starting June 1, 2011, Oxfam will launch […]
Iraq: 20,000 US Troops Likely To Stay As “Technical Experts”
Iraq’s Prime Minister al-Maliki was elected on the premise that all American occupying troops will be out of the country by the end of December 2011. However, it appears now that Washington’s man in Baghdad is pushing, in conjunction with the Obama administration, to keep some US troops in Iraq after the deadline. Last week, […]
Why Does America Have A “Special Relationship” With Israel?
American support for Israel must not be at the expense of the Arab people. America should support a peaceful and secure resolution rather than any belligerent combatant. Instead of offering blind allegiance, and a carte blanche, to an old frenemy, America, and the world, would be better served by developing a “special relationship” with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the democratic revolutions sweeping the world.
Election 2012: Why Obama Is A Shoo-In
In the United States, politicians are almost always campaigning for election or re-election. It gives them very little time to focus on what should be the real business of government. Every two years American voters go to the polls to elect a Congress and part of the Senate, or, part of the Senate, a congress, […]
Global Unrest and Europe’s GIPSI Revolution
Although England and France are facing equally bleak outlooks, with severe cuts to public services and an increasing drain on the working class, they are yet to face the full-blown, dreaded, IMF loan criteria of mass privatization and third world indebtedness being imposed on the GIPSI countries; Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Currently, though […]
