Russia: Will Moscow Bombings Be Used To Crack Down On Human Rights?
Yesterday, one of the suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Moscow on March 29 was identified as Jennet Abdurakhmanova. She was 17-years old, and the widow of the leader of a Dagestan separatist and Islamic group, Umalat Magomedov. According to Dagestan’s police investigators, Jennet became involved in terrorist activities after she developed an intimate […]
No Surprise: California GOP Against Pot Legalization
With sad predictability, the GOP’s conservative apologists for the status quo in California have dutifully lined up against the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, which will appear on this November’s ballot in the Golden State.
Official Inquiry Vindicates Climate Scientists
Since Galileo, science has been under attack, and its foes thought they had scored a huge victory when hackers broke into the emails of researchers at the CRU, finding some suspicious correspondences. An official UK government inquiry has just cleared the scientists of any wrong doing, reasserting that man-made global warming is a fact.
Belgium To Ban Burqa
The House Affairs Committee of the Belgian Parliament voted unanimously to ban the use of a burqa in public. The measure will be brought before the full government after Easter, and is expected to be the first bill of its kind in Europe.
Haiti’s 1804 Original Declaration Of Independence Found
The document is untitled “Liberty Or Death” and it is the original document written in French by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the leaders of Haiti’s revolution with Toussaint Louverture (2 ND photograph). The extraordinary discovery was made by Julia Gaffield, a 26-year old student from Duke University. Gaffield found the only known printed copy of […]
