In Mathew Cardinale’s article “First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts,” he wrote that the audit of the Federal Reserve “revealed 16 trillion dollars in secret bank bailouts” (8/28/2011). He described how many financial institutions would boast that they had plenty of cash in their reserves while they were actually receiving loans. Sixteen [...]
Due to socio-economic unrest in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the number of child laborers has risen by 25 percent. According to various reports published by International organizations like the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF, there are two million children under the age of 15 going to work everyday instead of attending [...]
The Obama administration has quietly put into practice an ‘incomplete idea’ left over from the Bush II presidency: creating a de facto ‘presidential international assassination program.’ Court documents, evidence offered by Human Rights Watch and a special United Nations report allege that U.S citizens suspected of encouraging “terror” had been put on “death lists.” Reports [...]
Republicans in the U.S. House of representatives are trying to eliminate all federal funding from Planned Parenthood. The issue will go before the Senate by the beginning of March. Republicans accused the organization of providing abortion services with Title X funding, which is not true because such centers have been providing evidence that such funding [...]
The group La Alameda from Argentina and Dignity Returns from Thailand are beginning to sell thousands of T-shirts as a way to support and improve working standards for many employees in textile factories. “It’s a way to prove that high quality clothing can be produced without having to enslave workers,” said one of the initiatives [...]
A report released by the Committee to Protect Journalists studied more than 100 countries and found that 145 journalists, editors, and photojournalists were behind bars worldwide at the end of last year, while a further 44 had been killed on the job. Nearly half of those jailed were in Iran and China, with 34 jailed [...]
A report done by the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) in October investigated nine of the 139 drone strikes carried out since the beginning of 2009, and found that a total of 30 civilians had been killed in those 9 strikes, including 14 women and children. That gives an average of 3.3 civilians [...]
The International Committee of the Red Cross has reported that the underground water system in Gaza is at risk of collapsing. The water system could also contaminate the area’s drinking water, potentially causing an outbreak of Hepatitis A and parasitic infections. Although the Israeli government has de facto responsibility over the area of Gaza, the [...]
On June 5, 2009 World Environment Day, Peruvian Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands—a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States. Three MI-17 helicopters took off from the [...]
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 [...]
