Srinagar, May 06 (Scoop News) – Kashmir based Hindu organistion, Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS) today said that on one hand every Kashmiri irrespective of religion, belief and faith is contributing towards the re-conciliation of Kashmiri Society which has fallen apart due to political turmoil and on the other hand some revenue […]
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 […]
Why Authorities Haven’t Stopped the Foreclosure ‘Rescue’ Boom
This story is a collaboration with Steve Henn of American Public Media’s Marketplace [1]. It was co-published with Salon [2]. During the go-go years of the real estate bubble, shady mortgage brokers [3] thrived, thanks to the sluggish response of regulators and law enforcement agencies. Amid the ruins of the crash, there’s a new boom […]
Greenwashing – A National Sin?
Throughout the mid-nineties and up until the early part of this decade, I worked in the organic cotton, hemp, and recycled apparel industry. I began as an employee and then partner in a retail store on Venice Beach and in Santa Monica, California. Then manufactured a line of men’s and women’s undergarments called, Alternative Undies, […]
BOC, BIR Next Target
At least, it’s a welcome move on the part of the Office of the Ombudsman in Manila to implicate some ranking officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). Had it not been for the unwanted killing of one of its undersecretaries for an unknown motive, the Office of the Ombudsman […]
Nigeria To Prosecute Two Britons Over Bribery
Nigeria is set to enter criminal proceedings against two Britons, Jeffrey Tesler and Wojciech Chodan, who have confessed to bribing officials in Abuja and elsewhere in the country to get contracts. The contracts include the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on Bonny Island, valued at about $6 billion […]