Afghanistan: Was Italy Paying Off The Taliban Insurrection?
According to a report published in the British press today, the Italian secret service was paying off Taliban forces not to attack their troops in the Sarobi district of Afghanistan. Ten French soldiers died last year after failing to understand the risk in the area. The French forces thought they were taking control a relatively quiet part of the country. The Times claims this was because Italy’s secret service had been secretly paying local Taliban leaders in order to keep violence down.
Hunger Affects 1.02 Billion People Worldwide
The global economic crisis has a devastating effect for the world’s undernourished. The sharp spike in hunger triggered by the global economic crisis has hit the poorest people in developing countries hardest, revealing a fragile world food system in urgent need of reform, according to a report released today by the Food & Agriculture Organization […]
Nepotism: Sarkozy’s True Color
It should be now increasingly clear for French people that President Nicolas Sarkozy is constantly overreaching at the edge or even outside the legal boundaries of his public office in order to satisfy his insatiable quest for power and financial gains for himself, his political allies, and of course the members of his own family. […]
UN’s Navi Pillay Takes On Caste Discrimination
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has issued a strong and eloquent call on the world to end caste discrimination like it did apartheid and slavery. The organizations Human Rights Watch, the National Campaign On Dalit Human Rights, and the International Dalit Solidarity Network have all endorsed Pillay’s and the UN’s […]
Italy: Berlusconi Cracks Down On The Freedom of The Press
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is also a media mogul in control of about 3/4 of Italian media, he owns TV stations, newspapers, magazines, and also a major soccer team. Berlusconi has the tools to control the message, and he has been exercising that power during all of his political career. The only possible comparison […]
