Mexico Cartels: Terrorists or the USA Gun Market’s Valued Customers?
Legalization of the drug market, immigration reform, and regulation of the American gun market, would render the drug cartels, with their human smuggling side-line, nearly impotent; forced to rely on the legitimate businesses in which they have already diversified. The billions of dollars spent by American tax payers to combat non-lethal marijuana and human trafficking, […]
EU Politics: Arab Spring’s Migrants Are Giving the Far-Right a Boost
The European Union’s interior ministers met in Luxembourg on April 11, 2011 to discuss a recent spike of undocumented migrants from North Africa in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution. Italy alone has reported that 26,000 migrants have entered the country since the North African unrest started in January 2011. One of the numerous threats […]
Bailing out the Dying: In the fight against AIDS, The Good News is–Hopelessness is a Lie
By Kenneth Lipp Countries spent an average of 16.9 percent of their GDP, worldwide, bailing out banks and private financial institutions (source: World Bank- “A User’s Guide to Banking Crises”) in the year 2000. The original allocation for the now infamous bailout of U.S. leviathans such as Goldman-Sachs was 700 billion dollars, and though the […]
Egypt’s Unfinished Business and a Lesson For the Arab Revolution
It has become apparent that all of our most cynical readings of the situation in Egypt, since the supposed ouster of Hosni Mubarak, are being proved true by the continued oppression, and disenfranchisement, of the Egyptian people at the hands of the Military government. The aggressive midnight assault by police and military forces, to […]
Ivory Coast: Full Blown Civil War Amid Atrocities From Both Sides
Latest Updates: On Sunday, French troops took control of the airport in Abidjan as the two sides continued to fight for the control of Ivory Coast largest city. According to the French military, the move is to ensure the safety of French and foreign nationals who want to leave the country. France has also increased […]
