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Poverty/World Hunger
  • Eva Golinger. Postcards from the Revolution. , Postcards from the Revolution

    The Venezuelan Government is taking concrete steps to combat a rise of criminal activity and insecurity in the country by also addressing the root cause of violence: Poverty The New York Times mistakenly headlined last week that violence in Venezuela is worse than Iraq. The sensationalist and distorted article, authored... » read this article
  • Jordan Flaherty , Huffington Post

    Poet Sunni Patterson is one of New Orleans' most beloved artists. She has performed in nearly every venue in the city, toured the US, and frequently appears on television and radio, from Democracy Now to Def Poetry Jam. When she performs her poems in local venues, half the crowd recites the... » read this article
  • WSWS reporting team , WSWS

    Thousands of unemployed workers attended a job fair August 25 in Southfield, Michigan that was sponsored by employmentguide.com, a job search web site, and the American Association for Retired People (AARP). The event, billed as an “over 50” job fair, attracted a wide cross-section of people, testifying to the depth... » read this article
  • Joe Bageant , JoeBageant.com

    Honk If You Love Caviar. How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Chelsea Clinton's wedding, 15K just to rent the air-conditioned shitters -- huge chrome and glass babies with hot water and everything. No gas masks and waxy little squares of toilet paper for those guys. Yes,... » read this article
  • Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The following article is based on a report “The tragedy of Noma1”, prepared by Mr. Jean Ziegler, Vice-President of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. Unless otherwise noted, the quotes in this article are  excerpted from this report by Mr. Ziegler. Malnutrition and hunger are not only direct killers of... » read this article
  • Michelle Chen , In These Times

    One-hundred-and-fifty years after the abolition of slavery, the State Department has acknowledged that people in the United States continue to be bought and sold as property. The department’s 2010 “Trafficking in Persons” (TIP) report, a global review of human trafficking and civic and legal responses to it, lists the United... » read this article
  • Johann Hari , The Independent

    By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out that the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the... » read this article
  • Charles Piller, Edmund Sanders and Robyn Dixon , Los Angeles Times

    Ebocha, Nigeria — Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the only threat Justice faces. Almost since... » read this article
  • Translated by Siv O'Neall , Axis of Logic

    This interview by Agnès Rousseaux and Alexandro Rosinhawas was published by the French information web site BASTA! [2] on January 27, 2009. It is based on Jean Ziegler’s latest book “Hatred of the West” (La Haine de l’Occident - Albin Michel, October, 2008) Jean Ziegler [1], one of the leading... » read this article
  • Melinda Burns , Miller-McCune

    A new book, “Just Give Money to the Poor,” says the poor will spend the cash wisely and boost the economy, too. Who’s responsible for the poor? Back in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth, English lawmakers said it was the government and taxpayers. They introduced the compulsory “poor... » read this article
  • Special report translated by Dady Chery. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic (Translation); Original in French (Haiti Progres)

    Introduction: Back in January, while hundreds of thousands of Haitians laid injured -- crushed -- the country's president and first lady cried about the collapse of their national palace and urgently called for engineers.  Days later, while children were being snatched by the planeloads from the country in disarray, the... » read this article
  • Bill Van Auken , WSWS

    4 May 2010 The state of Arizona’s enactment last month of a law targeting immigrants for police persecution has reignited a debate within the media and establishment political circles over the status of over 12 million undocumented workers living in the United States. Much of this debate has centered on... » read this article
  • Paul Richard Harris, Editor. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic exclusive

    Even before World War II ended, thought was being given to how the world could, or should, be shaped in its aftermath. As early as 1942, economist John Maynard Keynes was proposing what he called the International Trade Organization (ITO) which would be supported by a central bank of central... » read this article
  • Andrew Gavin Marshall , Global Research

    Editor's Note: Andrew Gavin Marshall's* extraordinary Three Part Series on the current global economic, political and social crisis is worthy of careful reading and study. His scholarly approach to understanding and biting critique of the global corporate empire serves as a reference for our everyday experience as the world spins... » read this article
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World News
  • Bahrain: Ali Abdulemam, blogger and Global Voices contributor arrested
    Ali Abdulemam, a leading Bahraini blogger and Global Voices Advocacy author, was arrested earlier today by the Bahraini authorities for allegedly spreading “false news” on BahrainOnline.org portal, one of the most popular pro-democracy outlets in Bahrain, amidst the worst sectarian crackdown by the...
  • Israel Invited to Join Anti-Nuclear Pact
    VIENNA - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency's inspections, an IAEA report said...
  • Laos and the legacy of Vietnam
    The US gives $3m a year to clear cluster bombs in Laos. For nine years, it spent $2m a day to drop them. We must do more Three million tons of ordnance was dropped on...
  • Fidel Castro addresses first rally in four years
    Fidel Castro has addressed a rally for the first time since handing the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul in 2006.   In a speech at Havana University, Mr Castro warned of nuclear war arising...
  • Pakistan floods and the timber mafia
      Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Sep 2, 2010 There is a link between deforestation in Pakistan and the massive floods sweeping the country, said an official with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "Had there been...
  • US arrests 370 immigrants in Midwest raids
    31 August 2010 A large-scale police operation resulted in the arrest of 370 immigrants in ten Midwestern states last week. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) coordinated with other federal authorities in conducting the...
  • ACLU Sues U.S. Over Targeted Killing of Citizens
     August 30, 2010 The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government over an alleged policy of killing American citizens who are suspected of terrorism. The lawsuit, filed today in federal court in Washington, argued...
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