Zambia is one of the poorest nations in the world, but in its northern providence of Luapula, mines that are filled with numerous minerals that could greatly help out the providence and the nation. Luapula also has a substantial amount of small famers that inhabit the lands of the providences richest mineral fields. The people [...]

This landmark case helped decide the future for foreign trade.  In late 1998 the National Australia Bank (NAB) bought a company out of Jacksonville, Florida called HomeSide Lending, Inc.  They bought it so they could have an office in the United States as well as a place to run its main mortgages.  In 2001 after [...]

Some of the world’s largest oil, mining, car and gas corporations will make hundreds of millions of dollars from a UN backed forest protection scheme whose initial purpose was to reduce emissions from deforestation carbon by paying poorer countries to preserve their forests. This agreement would allow governments to offset national emissions against forest conservation, [...]

A new FAIR study suggests that the PBS NewsHour is not living up to Public Television’s promise to “reflect the pluralism of our society” and address “the needs of the unserved and underserved.”   The study shows that the sources drawn from on the program are heavily dominated by elite white males while women and minorities [...]

“Project Citizen”, a new surveillance project led by the National Security Agency (NSA) is a cyber security system which is supposed to protect America’s infrastructure from cyber attacks. The NSA is concerned for the security of the U.S against foreign threats that want to infiltrate important infrastructures like “power plants, electricity grids, air-traffic control networks, [...]

Around the country, big pharmaceutical companies are paying doctors with blemished records to promote their products to their patients. Although the drug companies claim that they hire doctors who are highly respected in their fields, an investigation was performed by ProPublica discovered that hundreds of doctors who are on payroll by these large drug companies [...]

In the United States one would think that juveniles in custody under the United States criminal justice system regardless of criminal history, economic backgrounds, or race would have their basic humanitarian rights protected. In the juvenile justice systems across America teenagers as young as thirteen years old are becoming victims of rape and are being [...]

On November 28, the Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, declared that homosexuality was immoral and that he would not allow it to stand in his country. He ordered the police to begin raids on known homosexuals in what he hoped would be a blitzkrieg style arrest. Many in the African LGBT community are now [...]

There is a blurred line in Cancun, Mexico that splits a land of vacation and paradise from a land of hell, hardship, and suicide. Many migrants come to Cancun in order to escape their former residences that are filled with natural disasters and poverty.  The individuals who migrate to Cancun believe that the white sandy [...]

After the recent U.S. presidential election, Europeans praised the selection of Barack Obama but also had speculations from the beginning that the U.S. government would return back toward the Bush-Cheney period. At a conference this past September (2010), many conservative Europeans attended and commented on the most eye-catching observations about America. There was a dominant [...]