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Where Oh Where Did The Money Go?

Where Oh Where Did The Money Go?

For nine years, the elephant in Iraq has been where the money is. The war was sold to us as paying for itself through oil revenues, which would have amounted to our country seizing the natural resource of a sovereign nation. Instead, it has eaten up nearly eight-hundred billion American taxpayers’ dollars. So, maybe a [...]

Syrian Troops Storm Damascus Suburbs

Syrian Troops Storm Damascus Suburbs

An estimated 2,000 Syrian regime troops with tanks assaulted the dissident enclaves in the Damascus suburbs of Erbeen, Saqba, Hammouriya and Kfar Batna on Sunday. Though casualty rates for the civilian population are unclear, the nature of the attack is not. Someone placed the remnants of government armament on a rooftop in the suburb of [...]

New Protests In Russia

New Protests In Russia

  Heard of motor-voter-registration? Well, Russia was subjected to motor-voter-protests this weekend. Thousands of Russian, with their cars trailing white ribbons or festooned with white balloons, took to the streets to protest the regime of Vladimir Putin, most following a 10-mile circuit around the city. This was preliminary to the planned protests of February 4 [...]

Anti-ACTA protest in France

Anti-ACTA protest in France

29 January 2012 by Pauline Malmqvist   On the initiative of Anonymous a hundred of people protested this Saturday in Paris against ACTA. They also asked to protest in 36 other french cities. ACTA, known as Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is an international treaty that aims at reinforcing the copyright laws. It wants to reinforce the [...]

Spending Cuts Could Strangle European Recovery

Spending Cuts Could Strangle European Recovery

There are some stories which, though very serious, lead to uncontrollable bouts of the giggles. This is such a story….. When the recession hit Europe, the effects were devastating. Too many countries were operating on combinations of high government spending and low taxation. Germany was the exception. Though incomes had stagnated, Chancellor Merkel was aggressive [...]

Arab League Gives Up On Syria

Arab League Gives Up On Syria

The Arab League on Saturday suspended its monitoring operations in Syria because it is too dangerous to continue. There has been a “critical deterioration of the situation” with armed clashes between rebel and security forces in the suburbs of Damascus. The al-Assad regime has always considered Damascus and Aleppo their secure territory. Arab League Secretary [...]

Zulu King Investigated For Anti-Gay Statements

Zulu King Investigated For Anti-Gay Statements

South Africa’s human rights agency is investigating whether or not King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu made comments that risk increasing anti-homosexual sentiment in the nation. According to the Johannesburg newspaper The Times, King Zwelithini called gays ‘rotten’ durring a speech. Commission spokesman Vincent Moaga said that the newspaper stands by the story, but King [...]

Saudi Woman Driver In Fatal Accident

Saudi Woman Driver In Fatal Accident

On Saturday, a Saudi woman who was defying the driving ban was killed and her passenger severely injured when her four-wheel drive vehicle inexplicably overturned in the desert region of northern Hael province. It has now been reported that this is not the first case of female drivers dying in “accidents” when they were behind [...]

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