Glitter of Brazil’s World Cup Hides Inequality, Corruption, Human Rights Abuses
International financial and neoliberal institutions, most notably the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have created conditions in Brazil that led millions to protest throughout the country. Images of the protests bring to mind photographs of the 1968 hundred-thousand march against the military dictatorships. How did it start? It began with a demonstration at the Confederation Cup: […]
Turkey’s Unrest: A Fight for Secularism
By Rick Staggenborg It is often agonizing for Americans who recognize their government as being the greatest threat to peace and freedom in world history to see how ignorant most of their fellow citizens are to what is obvious to the rest of the world; however, recent events are opening the eyes of citizens in […]
La Navase: Conservation of Biodiversity by Haiti’s Sustainable Practices
An unspoiled Haitian island, called La Navase, has been claimed by the United States and renamed “Navassa Island,” although it lies a mere 25 miles southwest of the city of Jeremie and 37 miles from Haiti’s western-most peninsula. La Navase is uninhabited by humans, but Haitians have fished its coasts for more than two centuries, […]
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the West’s Unholy Alliance to Wreck and Exploit
Syria: Fog of proxy war and conflicting agendas As furious fighting rages in Syria for control of Qusair, a border town of critical strategic importance, the dense and toxic fog of that country’s proxy war is spreading to Lebanon and Iraq. With Hezbollah becoming directly involved in the conflict to back Assad, the patchwork coalition […]
Drones: The Global Empire’s Current Weapon of Choice
In Lichfield, England, in the 18th century, Mr. Richard Greene ran a museum that was quite revealing about colonial power. As a visitor entered one room of this museum, in one cabinet on the right there was an array of high velocity-weapons from a former day that showed the historical development of muskets and pistols […]
