South Dakota has passed legislation requiring every woman seeking an abortion to be assisted by a Fake Clinic. These differ from normal abortion clinics in that they have an agenda for the patient. Their hidden goals are designed to “frighten and shame a woman who knows it is not the right time for her to [...]
Newly released documents show that high officials of JPMorgan Chase bank knew for a long time that Bernard Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. They did nothing to protect his investors, but they did protect their own investments that were tied to him. Chase risk analyst to look at a Madoff feeder fund, in February [...]
German magazine Der Spiegel released images taken by U.S. soldiers of children they murdered and mutilated in Afghanistan. While the Obama’s preached in a poor village in Santiago Chile about Human Rights, these images of smiling soldiers kneeling next to naked children they had just massacred. The soldiers not only took the village children’s lives [...]
In a new report, Oxfam has found that billions of dollars in international aid which could have transformed the lives of many people in some of the poorest countries in the world, was spent on unsustainable, expensive and dangerous aid projects which international donor governments used to support their own short-term foreign policy and security [...]
South American countries struggle to carve a niche out for themselves in the global market. Lands tended for generations by independent farmers in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, are now being swallowed up by corporations to create massive soybean monocultures. In particular, half of Argentina’s cropland is now devoted to soy, and the crop [...]
A new worldwide spike in agricultural commodity and food prices is generating both predictable and extraordinary fallouts. The search for causes once again leads to a conjuncture of flawed policies in trade, environment, finance and agriculture that is likely to produce more dangerous volatility in years to come. Over the past year, food prices around [...]
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has created CMUs, or Communications Management Units, where the “management” part consists of denying inmates virtually all communication with their families and the outside world. In its Terre Haute, Ind., facility, the BOP is concentrating Arab and Muslim inmates and limiting them to mailing one six-page letter per week, [...]
Animal rights activists may now be legally restricted for rising evidence against their industrial agriculture factories that continue acts of animal torture and abuse. Iowa and Florida have proposed a new law that would make undercover recording of these abuses illegal. In order to prevent the outside world from seeing these atrocious acts of cruelty [...]
The war in Afghanistan and the US Special Operations Forces (SOF) has had far more deaths than the reports are leading us to believe. The Human Rights unit of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) jointly with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) stated a total of 80 civilians were killed in [...]
As the cyberage advances, there has been a hike in identity theft over the web. Millions of Americans every year lose their identity to hackers. Previously, a knowledge of computer and web programming was a necessity in order to steal someones identity over the web. Now it has become as easy as downloading a program. [...]
