By Philipp Hedemann, IPS | Street News Service. Since 2008 there has been an unprecedented rush to secure farmland in Africa, South America and Asia. The main commodities include sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat, soy, sorghum, sesame, oil seeds, and child labour.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate via Granma. Those countries are attempting to monopolize technologies and markets by means of patents, banks, the most modern and costly forms of transportation, cybernetic domination of complex productive processes, and the control of communications and the mass media, in order to deceive the world.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. When the Palestinian application for full membership in UNESCO comes to the UN Security Council next month, the U.S. will certainly try to scuttle this membership. In doing so, the U.S. will lose all credibility in future Palestine-Israel negotiations.
Continue reading →By Kristin Palitza, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In response to demands of a living wage from unions of Lesotho’s textile factory workers this summer, the World Bank is recommending to Lesotho’s government that it should ditch its textile industry, after the manufacturers have enjoyed Lesotho’s attractive tax breaks.
Continue reading →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 →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 Staff, Prensa Latina. The self-proclaimed provisional prime minister of Libya, Mahmoud Jibril, validated confirmations by other leaders of the National Transitional Council (NTC) on the death of Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, although new images suggested a brief death by execution.
Continue reading →By Fabrizio Tassinari, Rasmus Alenius Boserup, Project Syndicate via Al Jazeera | Jake Lippincott, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The word revolution is so casually bandied about these days that it is quickly losing all meaning. Nevertheless real revolutions are happening. Tunisia’s is a case in point.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Staff Writers, Space Daily | NASRDA | Stephen Clark, Spaceflight Now. Last month Nigeria launched two satellites, Nigeriasat 2 and Nigeriasat X, used for forestry, mapping, disaster monitoring and security applications. In 2009 South Africa launched SumbandilaSat and last year formed its own space agency.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In his book, “L’Oiseau Nègre: L’Aventure des Pintades Dionysiaques”, Jean-Marie Lamblard follows pintades from Pharaonic Egypt to Alexandria, Greece, Abyssinia, Venice, Africa, and America in reverse order and includes the role of “oiseaux negres” in Haitian Vodou, where they are a symbol of the runaway slave because these birds reclaimed their freedom immediately after being introduced on the island in the early 16th century.
Continue reading →UPI via Terra Daily Editorial Comment. Finally there is a move afoot to reconsider the water agreements between Nile countries. The previous agreements for sharing the Nile waters had been unfair and involved the U.K. bullying upstream countries for the … Continue reading →
