How Australia Continues to ‘Breed Out the Color’ of Its Aboriginal Population
The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads: “There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would’ve been hung...
View ArticleWikiLeaks release: Internet governance body trying to stop NSA surveillance
WikiLeaks has published what the anti-secrecy organization says is the penultimate draft agreement expected to be discussed later this month in Brazil at a global internet governance meeting co-hosted...
View ArticleUS joins search for abducted Nigerian girls
Image: Aljazeera The United States has sent a team of experts to Nigeria to help find nearly 300 girls and women abducted from a school last month by the armed group Boko Haram. US President Barack...
View ArticleU.S. Bolsters Regimes in Uganda and Nigeria That Persecute Gays and Abuse...
Image: Alternet There was an explosion of international outrage in late February when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a harsh anti-gay law. The legislation mandates life sentences for people...
View ArticleFast Food Workers to Protest Wages in 80 Cities Across the World
The Confirmation Files: Image: Reuters Posted by Libergirl Originally posted on TIME: Fast food workers demanding higher wages are planning strikes in 80 cities across 30 countries Thursday to match...
View ArticleHow to Change Course in Central African Republic
The Confirmation Files:Posted by Libergirl Originally posted on TIME: [time-related-module] Recent outrages in Bangui, the war-torn capital of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), lay bare that the...
View ArticleMorning Must Reads: October 14
The Confirmation Files: Image: KCNA—REUTERS Posted by Libergirl Originally posted on TIME: The Ebola Brain Drain Health care workers fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are facing hard choices,...
View ArticlePregnant women among African migrants trying to cross sea to Europe
Image: .aljazeera.com via AP It took one Somali woman seven months and 4,000 miles to trek to Libya. From there, she hoped to cross the Mediterranean Sea so her baby could be born in Europe. She...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: America is an empire in decline
[This piece, the first of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books)] Image: AP/Hatem Moussa When we ask “Who rules the world?” we commonly adopt...
View ArticleWhen the World Is Led by a Child
2226 Photo President Trump in Washington on Monday. CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing...
View ArticleRussia’s southern strategy
The pace of Russian re-engagement in Africa and the Indian Ocean region has accelerated as US influence has waned. — Read on www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/russia-s-southern-strategy Posted by...
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