FLOW OF TAMIL REFUGEES TO WEST WILL DRY UP IF ‘REAL PEACE’ EVER RETURNS TO SRI LANKA (SL) According to SL officialdom ‘real peace’ returned to Sri Lanka with the defeat of the Tamils /Tamil militancy-LTTE in May 2009. This ‘real peace’ is a contrived one, satisfying SL’s thinking that the Tamils waged a […]
Nepal’s Judicial System awaits new hopes
“Justice must be served timely, efficiently and economically, within the social boundaries of accepting the norms and values, making people feel the presence of legality. If not then its effectiveness has no use.” Contemplating the sense of providing an equal and safe surrounding, and making an individual feel safe sound and secured is its ultimate […]
Senate Approves 600 Million For Border: But Where’s The Fence?
reprint from www.backupamerica.org It was announced with great fanfare by the mainstream media that the Senate has approved an additional 600 million dollars in order to reportedly secure the U.S. Mexico border on a voice vote. Just in time for the upcoming November elections. The funds provided are to be utilized in the hiring of […]
Glenn Beck: Domestic Terrorist
Is Glenn Beck a domestic terrorist? Early last week, as I was getting dressed for work, I turned on the T.V. to listen to the local traffic and morning news. I watched in horror, once again there was a police involved shooting. This time the event occurred on the Interstate 530 and the cops were […]
Halving Hunger Through “Business as Unusual”
<i>Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s <a href= "http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/halving-hunger-through-%E2%80%9Cbusiness-as-unusual%E2%80%9D">Nourishing the Planet</a></i> <p><i>By Alex Tung</i></p> <p><i>This interview with Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is part of a regular interview series with agriculture and food security experts.</i></p> <p><b>Name: </b>Shenggen Fan</p> <p><b>Affiliation : </b>Director General,<b> </b>International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)</p> […]
Fighting for Farmworkers’ Rights for More Than 40 Years
By Ronit Ridberg This is the first of three parts of an interview with Baldemar Velasquez, President and Founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. In Part One, Mr. Velasquez describes the biggest challenges and abuses farm workers face in the U.S., and what it was like for his family to work in America’s agricultural […]
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