By Esam Al-Amin, OpEd News. Nearly 90% of all Tunisian registered voters participated, with some waiting as long as four hours to cast their votes. The huge win by Ennahda, followed by Congress for the Republic (CPR), represents a total break from the parties and political movements of the corrupt and repressive era of Ben Ali.
Continue reading →By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Yale Environment 360 | Eco-Watch. The view that overpopulation is not our problem just doesn’t wash. Using the I = P x A x T equation, one can see that the total impact of the U.S. is gigantic, several hundred times that of Bangladesh. These classic articles date from 1992 and 2008, which makes them all the more relevant and urgent.
Continue reading →By Franz Chávez, IPS. LA PAZ – With victory cheers and predictions of future campaigns in defense of their ancestral territory, indigenous protesters from Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region celebrated the new law that banned the construction of the road through their rainforest reserve.
Continue reading →Video by Yvon Vilius and Ansel Herz, Media Hacker. Anti-UN demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and Leogane this month were reported as involving a couple of hundred people. See for yourself.
Continue reading →By Staff, Venezuela Analysis. Central America has been suffering heavy human and economic losses due to several weeks of torrential rains that are expected to continue. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are heading a worldwide campaign to request help with the disaster.
Continue reading →By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes. An all-out attack on immigrant workers, their families, and communities continues in the U.S. South and West. In Alabama, immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
Continue reading →By Haiti Chery (English) | Alliance Haiti (French) | CoRIS. Ile de la Navase, a Haitian island claimed by the U.S. under an arcane 1856 Guano Act and renamed Navassa Island, offers an opportunity for U.S. imperialists to return something to its rightful owners and for U.S. do-gooders to learn a thing or two from Haitians about wildlife conservation. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Kristian Beadle, Miller-McCune. Kristian Beadle steps off a rickety bus in southern Mexico and finds a traditional coffee-growing culture that admirably suits modern sustainability efforts.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Ministry of Health finally gave in and officially announced the beginning of a vaccination campaign against cholera, after one year of pressure from the UN’s Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The proposed vaccine, called Shanchol, is wrought with scandal, and preparations for use in developing countries contain the dangerous mercury-based preservative thiomersal. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Sebastián Amaya, El Observador | Translated by Lo de alla | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The case against the five Uruguayan MINUSTAH marines, who are under investigation for assaulting a Haitian boy in Port-Salut, could be filed away because the Uruguay court says that the Haitian boy has not reported for questioning and has not filed charges in Uruguay. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →This playful performance of A Night in Tunisia, in Havana in 1985, is offered as a bow to the Tunisian Revolution. Be sure to catch the brief commentary by Dizzy, who incidentally discovered Arturo.
Continue reading →By Andrew Leonard, Salon. “Half the workers of the world work in jobs that are off the books… The combined economic activity of these 1.8 billion workers adds up to $10 trillion. If this informal economy were squeezed into a single political structure, it would be the second largest economy in the world,” Robert Neuwirth writes in Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy.
Continue reading →By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Online. Heritage Oil signed juicy deals in Iraqi Kurdistan behind the back of Baghdad’s central government. In Libya, Heritage is directly involved in operating oil and gas licenses.
Continue reading →By Seth Freed Wessler and Maria Hinojosa, Color Lines. In the documentary, “Lost in Detention,” a father of three sits down with a journalist who asks him how he has handled his wife’s deportation. She was removed from the U.S. after she was pulled over for a traffic violation.
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