Last week, Cambodia finished celebrating its third official lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride celebration, a week of movie screenings, workshops and other activities organized by Rainbow Community Kampuchea.
From sweatshops to corporations funding paramilitaries, the businesses that supply the US market often violate human rights and law across the globe. At the same time, workers and workers’ advocacy organizations are fighting back in new and creative ways.
The Thigithe River in North Mara, Tanzania meanders through scattered villages and clumps of trees in a vast expanse of land ringed by hills close to the Kenyan border. The Canadian Barrick Gold Corporation operates a notorious gold mine in this region.
Amidst the world-historic levels of death and suffering from last January’s earthquake, Haitians have at least been spared the scale of government violence that has marked much of their nation’s past. This may change under Michel Martelly, the incoming president.
Marie-Monique Robin's investigation Death Squadrons: The French School helped shed light on the terrorist acts committed by the State during Argentina's Dirty War. Her new book, Our Daily Poison, investigates the pollutants that contaminate the production of food, and the corporations that want to cover them up.
Source: Truthout
Dispelling Donald Trump’s birther charges that Barack Obama is foreign-born, the president released his long-form birth certificate Wednesday. Politifact, the fact-checking site for politics, says its article about the issue (with a link to the certification of live birth) is the most popular item that it has ever published. The certificate and its release prove two things most people should already know: Obama is an American. And, as PBS host Tavis Smiley put it to MSNBC, the 2012 presidential race is shaping up to be “the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic.”
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