03/15/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant’s Number 4 reactor unit either remains on fire or has had a second flare up. As Dr. Rachel Maddow notes in the video clip attached, there is a great deal of suspicion when it comes to the people providing the information regarding the power plant. [...]
03-15-2011 by L. S. Carbonell While the United Nations, NATO, Western countries and even the Arab League dither around, the people of Libya are being slaughtered. Col. Qaddafi unleashed warships, airstrikes, missiles and artillery on the city of Ajdabiya, 340 miles east of Tripoli. It was the last major rebel stronghold before Benghazi. As the [...]
03-15-2011 by L. S. Carbonell In 1948, when the United Nations established the modern state of Israel, the country did not include the areas known as the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. The United Nations, suffering from a massive case of shortsightedness, refused to create a Palestinian state out of the [...]
03/14/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Japan is a nation that knows something about the horrors of radiation. They remain the only nation to have been hit by a nuclear bomb. Now, a new nuclear disaster is looming, and this time, it is a combination of problems mostly triggered by a natural event. The third explosion to [...]
03-14-2011 by L. S. Carbonell An explanation has finally emerged for the confusing and conflicting reports of who controls what in Libya, along with an explanation of why the rebels so desperately want a no-fly zone imposed over their country. It is an explanation as old as organized warfare. Col. Qaddafi’s land troops are too [...]
03-14-2011 by L. S. Carbonell After Tunisia, during Egypt, protests spread across the Middle East. In Bahrain, the Shia majority protested for greater representation in the Sunni-dominated government and an end to fast-track naturalization for Sunni immigrants who were getting most of the good jobs. Initially, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain since [...]
Court Ordered, Ugandan “Kill The Gays” Bill Supporter, Resigns From Cabinet
Melanie Nathan – March 15th, 2011 Uganda’s Ethics and Integrity Minister, James Nsaba Buturo, has resigned his Cabinet post in compliance with an order of the Supreme Court of Uganda. “Buturo was among nine Cabinet members who lost their primary elections for nominations to Uganda’s Parliament on behalf of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). [...]