4.2 magnitude earthquake shook Delhi for about 5 to 6 seconds on Wednesday night at 11.28 but there are no immediate reports of damage or casualties. According to the Indian Meteorological Department the epicenter was along the Delhi-Haryana border, near the town of Sonepat. No damages or casualties have been reported. People came out of [...]
General Abdel Fatah Younes, a former senior official in Moamer Kadhafi’s regime who defected to lead rebel forces, has been killed, according to the head of the rebel National Transitional Council. “With all sadness, I inform you of the passing of Abdel Fatah Younes, the commander-in-chief of our rebel forces,” NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil [...]
Protecting civilians!! or western oil companies? NATO has been dropping devastating bunker-busting bombs on Muammar Gaddafi’s home in an attempt to assassinate him. One son and several grandchildren have died but Gaddafi has survived. The State Department cables give background to the hostility directed against Gaddafi by the United States and other NATO powers. One [...]
The United Nations is set to rubber stamp an EU invasion force of ground troops that would be sent into Libya under the cooked up pretense of “humanitarian aid” and empowered to fight if Gaddafi forces threatened to impede their mission to “secure sea and land corridors inside the country,” another blatant attempt to legitimize [...]
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early Friday, triggering tsunami warnings and sending people fleeing out of buildings in the capital. The quake rattled buildings and toppled cars off bridges and into waters underneath. In Tokyo, crowds huddled together and tried to reach relatives via cell phone. Its epicenter was 373 kilometers (231 miles) from Tokyo, [...]
A whistleblower website wikileaks has published what it says are more than 90,000 of secret American military files about the war in Afghanistan which include details of 144 incidents in which Coalition forces have killed civilians. The White House has attacked online whistleblowing site Wikileaks after it published some 200,000 pages of secret American military [...]
Colombia with seven military bases. Honduras under a military coup legitimized by an election without legality. The Fourth Fleet reactivated on 1 July 2008, after more than 50 years off and whose function is to patrol the South Atlantic and now the growing process of militarization of humanitarian aid in Haiti. The last 13th of [...]
There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades [...]
ISTANBUL: A protestor today (Thursday) threw a shoe at IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn as he delivered a speech to university students in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul. The protestor, believed to be a student, shouted “IMF, Get out of Turkey!” as he ran towards the stage and threw the white sports shoe which failed to hit [...]
Michael Jackson’s stunted growth was the result of leaving a child star at the mercy of big corporations looking to turn a profit. Even at the height of his fame, and before subsequent scandals and lawsuits, it was clear to some that Michael Jackson was troubled. This article was originally published in The New Republic [...]
