A bit more than two years after the devastating earthquake, the country which used to be called “The Pearl of the Caribbeans” is still in a complete state of disarray. Many Haitians are very religious people, and some put their hopes more in the hands of God than in human beings for help. The numbers [...]
Almost half a century ago, Martin Luther King took on the herculean task to speak out and fight for the civil rights of America’s disenfranchised. Even so the accent of this struggle-starting in the early 1960s- was focused on putting an end to the odious state of segregation between whites and African-Americans prevalent in the [...]
When talking to people who are not involved or even informed about the Occupy movement-thanks to the lack of coverage by mainstream corporate controlled media outlets-they still feel that something out of the ordinary is going on. Even some people belonging to the so called “intelligentsia” are cynical about a movement which they view as [...]
Europe’s governing financial technocrats are working to preserve a financial system which is, in the best case scenario, edging towards a severe recession or in the worst case scenario on the brink of a collapse. Regardless, European leaders are setting themselves up for a hot spring, which will undoubtedly shore up the ranks of the [...]
At its inception, the European Union was an attempt to counterbalance the dominant global geopolitical power of the United States and the USSR. The EU was also supposed to offer a better, more democratic social and political system where the 99 percent had a voice and where political decision were made by equal nation partners [...]
