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.
For three years a grassroots movement for universal healthcare has been building in Vermont. On May 1, 2011 thousands rallied for health care as a human right in Montpelier, the state's capital.
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.
On July 9, 2011 South Sudan is expected to become an independent state, Africa’s 54th. Prior to that date, much preparation must be done to establish a vigorous economy, stable government, and peaceful society.
Source: TVNZ
Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda had lost relevance, and the chance of reprisal attacks following the terrorist leader’s death are slim, says veteran journalist Robert Fisk.
Fisk, who interviewed bin Laden three times before the September 11 terror attacks, says he was little more than “a name and an icon”.
“He was never a hands-on person, he never planned operations,” Fisk told TV ONE’s Close Up programme.
“Secondly, he was a middle-aged man. He’d become rather vain, clearly. In his videotapes he began to wear embroidered clothes I noticed. He used to dress much more humbly.”
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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