Students and riot police clash during education protest in Barcelona. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images Now remember girls and boys just because we stuffed up does not mean you can think about it and run amok. Remember while we were stuffing up we built easily enough gaols for all you radical, heathen commie lot. By the [...]
At last year’s News Corp AGM, 35% of shareholders voted against James Murdoch‘s re-election to the board. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA Shareholders are planning to step up their campaign to oust James Murdoch from News Corp following his decision to quit the UK and return to New York. News Corp announced on Wednesday that Murdoch was giving up [...]
Corseted Minds: Does Fear of Irrelevance Send Conservative Men Fleeing to the Victorian Age? If you focus on the utilitarian value of human beings, you may find yourself at some point nervously glancing in the mirror. February 28, 2012 | In the last 50 years, American women have finally been able to reliably earn a living, [...]
When Barack Obama took the oath of office three years ago, no one associated the phrase “targeted killing” with his optimistic young presidency. In his inaugural address, the 47-year-old former constitutional law professor uttered the word “terror” only once. Instead, he promised to use technology to “harness the sun and the winds [...]
Strait of Hormuz How the Media Got the Iran/IAEA Access Story Wrong by Gareth Porter News media reported last week that Iran had flatly refused the IAEA access to its Parchin military test facility, based on the statement to reporters by IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts, “We could not get access…” Now, however, both explicit [...]
Mario Draghi, the ECB president, said the last such offering averted a ‘major, major credit crunch’ [GALLO/GETTY] Banks have bought $713bn in funds from the European Central Bank at the lender‘s second offering of cheap three-year funds, raising hopes that more credit will flow into European lending markets and government borrowing costs will begin to ease [...]
At last year’s News Corp AGM, 35% of shareholder voted against James Murdoch‘s re-election to the board. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA Much to the chagrin of his bankers and cheer squad the call to get rid of the son of Rupert persists. George Ikners ikners.com Shareholders are planning to step up their campaign to oust James Murdoch from [...]
James Murdoch, left, was seen as heir apparent to Rupert Murdoch until the UK phone-hacking scandal broke [Reuters] James Murdoch, the executive at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal at his father’s British newspapers, has resigned as executive chairman of News Corp‘s UK newspaper arm, the company has announced. News Corp said James, the youngest [...]
Photo Credit: NOAA Photo Library: fish1968 by LCDR Eric Johnson, NOAA Corps. 7 Dangerous Lies About Plastic Big Plastic is big money and survives regulatory scrutiny by creating big spin. Here’s what you need to know. February 26, 2012 | To receive a Ph.D in industrial chemistry in the United States, no American university requires candidates [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – The Palestinian Authority is describing Wednesday’s raids on TV networks in the occupied West Bank as the possible beginning of a “frequency war” over limited broadcasting space. The confiscation of equipment from Watan TV and Al-Quds Educational TV deprives Palestinians of their right to have frequencies for building modern wireless communication networks, [...]
Hillary Clinton speaks to the press following the Friends of Syria conference. Photograph: Jason Reed/AFP/Getty Images Two weeks ago I met the Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu and we talked about the efficacy of the high-powered Friends of Syria gatherings – the latest of which took place in Tunis last weekend – in finding a [...]
Mark Duggan, who was killed by Met police officers last August. Photograph: Rex Features The Metropolitan police has apologised to the family of Mark Duggan, whose shooting triggered last summer’s riots, for failing to inform them of his death. The apology was revealed after the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) upheld a complaint by the family that neither the Met [...]
The Five: Uniting intelligence for the good of humanity OLGA DÍAZ RUIZ GREETINGS from the Cuban Five, serving unjust prison terms in the United States, were communicated during the closing session of University 2012 in Havana’s International Convention Center. The Five called attention to the importance of this event “in uniting intelligence for [...]
Raúl receives U.S. Senators PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz received yesterday evening, February 23, Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat, Vermont, president of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Richard Shelby , Republican, Alabama, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Leahy and Shelby are members of a delegation of U.S. [...]
REUTERS Traditionally, the US gets to appoint the president of the World Bank. But China is keen to make its influence felt in the search for a successor to Robert Zoellick, who will step down in June. The next head may still be American, but he or she will need to get Beijing’s [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided a Palestinian television network early Wednesday in central Ramallah, briefly detaining four employees, journalists at Watan TVsaid.Journalists at the television station said soldiers confiscated computers and broadcast equipment. The four employees were were detained are head of production Abdul Rahman Thaher, correspondent Hamza Salaymeh, graphics expert Ibrahim Milhim and [...]
Rumor and Anger Mount in Libya by Franklin Lamb Posted on January 15, 2012 by dandelionsalad by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Tripoli, Libya January 14, 2012 This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, [...]
In addition to approving parliamentary candidates, the Guardian Council also selects presidential candidates [Reuters] Iran‘s March 2 parliamentary elections will mark the first time the country has gone to the polls since the disputed 2009 presidential elections in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won his second term. There are 290 parliament seats up for grabs and the [...]
Thies, Senegal - Pronounced as “chess” and known as “the city of the train”, Thies, with no more than 400,000 people is not your average sleepy hollow. The town, considered Senegal’s second city, and a mere 60km from the capital, sits in an area considered to be among the most developed in the country, and is [...]
Oil and sheen have been visible in recent months due to seepage near BP’s Macondo well [Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera] New Orleans, LA - It was the largest marine oil disaster in the United States, and now BP’s trial is the largest and most complex environmental lawsuit in US history.In what is being called by many “The [...]
Roger Waters is reported as telling Chilean TV that the Falkland Islands ‘should be Argentinian‘. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA One major problem with the Falklands is just where do you send snotty nosed royals to get maximum coverage for their presumed fighting capabilities. George Ikners ikners.com The Falkland Islands should belong to Argentina, the former Pink Floydbass player Roger Waters [...]
. (photo: Ian MacKenzie) Reuters reports: Monsanto Wins Lawsuit While Food Justice Advocates ‘Occupy’ Food System Organic seed farmer Jim Gerritsen: “This flawed ruling will not deter us from continuing to seek justice.” – Common Dreams staff On a day that ‘Occupy’ groups, environmental and food justice organizations have called for a global day of action [...]
Just in case you think that the only people expressing concern about climate change are from the loony left, or worse still are evil terrorists seeking revenge on the capitalist system this is an interesting article. Apart from the possibility of extinction and the imminent loss of life on the planet there are those [...]
(GLobal Crop Diversity Trust) Create Food Democracy, Occupy our Food Supply by Vandana Shiva The biggest corporate takeover on the planet is the hijacking of the food system, the cost of which has had huge and irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere. From the seed to the farm to the store to [...]
. photo: John McColgan of the Alaskan Type I Incident Management Team (Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service) There Will Be Fire: The ‘Carbon Bomb’ ‘Waiting to Be Ignited’ Scientist: With climate change fires will become more frequent, more intense and harder to stop. – Common Dreams staff “We are going to [...]
Millions Join Strikes Across India Demanding Reforms Indians demanding improved rights for employees, trade unions and political activists – Common Dreams staff Millions of people, including members of the nation’s eleven largest trade unions, took to the streets across India today in a nationwide strike that seeks a remedy to rampant inflation, an end [...]
The World Bank’s Plans for Fisheries Could Destroy Fishing Communities by Meredith McCarthy Taking care of the oceans is a big challenge that needs the right solutions. That’s why we oppose turning our fisheries into privatized markets through catch shares, filling our coastal waters with environmentally degrading factory fish farms, and forcing controversial private eco-labeling [...]
