Poverty has increased significantly this past year in Madagascar forcing hundreds of thousands of children to skip school and work. The drastic change in poverty is due to a protest movement in January of 2009 that led to a major socio-economic crisis in the country.  This year alone the number of children working has risen [...]

Non-violent immigrant prisoners at Reeves Detention Center in Texas took resistive action on two separate occasions this year.  Inmates tired of the inhuman treatment and being denied due process, broke cell windows, ripped sinks off the walls, and took two-prison guards hostage. Inmates were upset with every aspect of the prison including the lack of [...]

Recruits to the Afghanistan army come from a world of desperate poverty. Many are malnourished and underweight and lack the upper body strength to manage the normal 50 lbs of equipment that American trainers expect them to use. Training the Afghan army is being done by US, Great Britain, and other allied countries as well [...]

The Discovery Channel is spreading dangerous myths and racial stereotypes using sensationalized police footage to depict crimes of poverty.  A recent show aired on The Discovery Channel, titled, “Gang Wars: Oakland,” provides sensationalized misinformation on the minority community in Oakland.  The show contained brutal action scenes of Oakland Police Officers raiding houses, chasing down gang [...]

Abbott Laboratories gave Columbia Medical School an unrestricted $150,000 grant to test a drug that turned fatal. Columbia Medical School administered a drug called hetastarch to open-heart surgery patients. Hetastarch can induce hemorrhaging and resulted in the deaths of two people and harmed over two dozen more. Columbia gave this drug to 200 heart patients [...]

There are eight states and the District of Columbia where insurance companies claim that getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition for which you can be denied health insurance coverage.  Victims of domestic violence are legally denied health insurance by companies who say that this condition is a pre-existing and cannot be [...]

The conventional wisdom in the US corporate media, that the Iranian election was fraudulent, may in fact be incorrect and simple a propaganda ploy by US interests. Robert Parry reports on a new poll that was taken at the end of September showing that about 81 percent of Iranians had confidence with the election outcome [...]

Researchers now believe that Osama Bin Laden has been dead for seven years and the United States is covering it up to keep the war going. The US State Department maintains a $50 million reward for his capture. Sue Reid from the dailymail.co.uk contends that the tapes that are being released now are not the [...]

Unborn children could have major health risks. A group composed of several dozen researchers met in Washington, D.C. in late September to discuss the harmful effects of chemicals that people encounter on a daily basis to their health and well-being. These epigenetic effects can lead to serious health issues such as diabetes and cancer. The [...]

Over 13 million gallons of raw sewage is entering the streams and lakes of San Francisco Bay.  Treatment plants in this area had an alarming 2,048 separate spills in the year 2008.  This is a problem that has been going on for decades. The pollution started in the SF Bay during the Gold Rush boom [...]