The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and released in 1992. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and […]
passion play
karnataka is witness to passion plays more often these days.The conservative mindset has yielded place to violence and free play of emotions. This has caused a few tragedies and most of the time the victims are women. The daily newspapers record a few murders everyday and a few atttempted ones too. In a rare twist […]
Ecuador: The Amazon Tribes Vs. Big Oil
Morning in the Amazon… by markg6 used according to Creative Commons attribution license. A rekindled interest in the richness of the Amazon is one of the results of recently distributed photograph showing members of an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon shooting arrows at the photographer’s airplane which surfaced on the Internet on May 23rd. […]
Has Hugo Chavez turned Venezuela into a Country of Government Informers?
(Written June 4th 2008) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has recently used his decree powers (given to him by the National Assembly last year) to pass a law that will carry out some major and highly controversial changes in the Venezuelan intelligence services. The new law is called “The Law of the National Intelligence and […]
FORMER BUSH AIDE SLAMS WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS
Former Bush aide slams White House officials The White House, led by president George W. Bush, sold the Iraq war to the American people with a slick “political propaganda campaign “aimed at “manipulating sources” and “ downplaying the major reason for going to war.” Those are the words not of a hardened Bush […]
Burma’s Junta Faces More Criticism As It Extends Suu Kyi’s House Arrest
For the longest time, Burma’s junta has been under scrutiny and backlash from the international community. However, the junta has remained resistant and defiant to the international backlash nonetheless. Back in 2007, the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests by the junta was widely condemned by the international community. Early in May, there was international criticism […]
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