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• Bill Gates: We Need A One World Government

  By enormousgherkin on February 1, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  “The UN system has failed” “You can make fun of it, but in truth it was sad how the conference in Copenhagen is run, how individual who behave like the UN system failed,” the 59-year-old said in view of the… Read More ›

• Bibi Netanyahu — aka ‘The Republican Senator From Israel’ — May Have Made A Fatal Political Mistake

  By genvana on January 31, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  By Rick Ungar Set aside, for the moment, the diplomatic row being sparked by Speaker of the House John Boehner as he seeks to create two conflicting foreign policies for the United States—one pursued by the President and the other… Read More ›

• Turkey’s leftists, Kurds celebrate Syriza victory

  By konigludwig on January 31, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  By Cengiz Çandar Late at night on Jan. 25, more than 500,000 Twitter followers of Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party (HDP) in Turkey, were dumbfounded by seeing him tweet in the Greek Cyrillic alphabet, which… Read More ›

• New Greek Government Sympathetic to Putin’s Russia

  By bluebirdsister on January 31, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The anti-austerity coalition that took power in Athens this week could threaten the West’s hold on Greece and give Russia a chance to expand its influence in the country. In a sign of things to come, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’… Read More ›

• World Climate Change-The Disbelievers

  By Ecantados on January 30, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  We’ve heard most of the snippet PR that the Climate deniers put out so I won’t bore you with any of those. What was fairly much a summation by a guest on the Bill Maher’s show. Here is the video. The guest… Read More ›

• Tyranny’s False Comfort: Why Rights Aren’t Wrong in Tough Times

  By konigludwig on January 30, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  By Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Humans Rights Watch The world has not seen this much tumult for a generation. The once-heralded Arab Spring has given way almost everywhere to conflict and repression. Islamist extremists commit mass atrocities and threaten civilians… Read More ›

• As 18 Die on Anniversary of Revolution, Egypt Intensifies Crackdown on Activists, Journalists

  By bluebirdsister on January 28, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  At least 18 protesters have been killed as they marked the anniversary of the 2011 uprising in Egypt that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, in the bloodiest demonstrations since General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power. A viral video also shows… Read More ›

• In parting shot, Obama prods India on religious freedom

  By konigludwig on January 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  By Frank Jack Daniel and Roberta Rampton NEW DELHI (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama weighed in on one of India’s most sensitive topics as he wound up a visit on Tuesday, making a plea for freedom of religion to… Read More ›

• Why is Apple sitting on $142bn?

  By Ecantados on January 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  By Jamie Robertson It can invest in its own development, and it is spending an estimated $5bn on the 176-acre Apple Campus headquarters site. But still the money keeps rolling in. Most of it gets parked in what the accounts… Read More ›

• Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US

  By jward199 on January 27, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  By Patricia Williams Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has been banned, in effect, from the schools in Tucson, Arizona. The anti-ethnic studies law passed by the state prohibits teachings that “promote the… Read More ›

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