Tag Archives: Nation
Peace Activists Face Terrorism Charges For Trying To Turn Reactor Into Plowshares
May 18, 2013
On June 28, 2012, three longtime peace activists — Sister Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 and Michael Walli, 63 — cut through a chain-link fence surrounding a nuclear weapons production facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.,...
UN General Assembly Censures Syria, But With Less Support Than Previous Resolutions
By Talia Ralph
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning Assad’s regime Wednesday, as the death toll in the war-torn nation hit at least 80,000.
“At least 80,000 have perished since the start of the hostilities, with most of those casualties believed...
ExxonMobil Gears Up For Publicity Battle As US Oil Reserve Estimates Climb
By Trisha Marczak
As America battles the prospect of a 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline constructed in the heartland of the nation that would transport more than 800,000 of oil through the U.S. every day, the oil-fracking movement is gaining even more traction with a new report indicating...
Post-Sandy Hook: Bulletproof Whiteboards Used By Schools For Protection
By Trisha Marczak
In 2003, a 17-year-old student in a rural Minnesota community walked into his high school armed with a .22 caliber pistol and hunted down two of his classmates, killing one with a shot to the head and another with a shot to the chest.
Ten years after the carnage caused...
Inside The DPRK: How A Caste System Structures Everyday Realities For North Koreans
By Frederick Reese
There is a strange phenomenon that lingers over every North Korean. For the past five decades, an arbitrary determination decides where they will live, what hospitals they will go to if they are sick, if they can go to college, if they can marry and even if they will receive...
NYC Weighs Allowing Green Card And Visa Holders To Vote
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here : voting.
He’d lived through political upheaval in his native Pakistan and was eager to be part of America’s storied “government...
Catholic Church, FBI Blame Cult For Perpetuating Drug War
By Trisha Marczak
The Vatican and Mexico are debating the merits of a cult operating under the guise of Christianity — one that the FBI has deemed a dark religion playing a role in drug-related violence that has led to the deaths of more than 70,000.
At the forefront of the debate...
Free NY College May Not Be Free For Long — U.S. Students Find Little Relief
By Martin Michaels
A free college education is a rare thing in the United States. With collective student debt surpassing $1 trillion and average annual college tuitions topping $22,000, students across the nation increasingly must turn to costly loans to afford a decent education.
Cooper...
Afghan President Ready To Let US Have 9 Bases
By The Associated Press
The U.S. can keep nine bases in Afghanistan after the scheduled 2014 NATO combat troop pullout, the country’s president said Thursday, the first time he has made such an offer in public.
Hamid Karzai insisted on “security and economic guarantees” first.
Talks...
Google Recognizes Palestinian Statehood
By Stephen Lendman
On May 1, Google recognized Palestine. It did so on its homepage. Earlier it referred to “The Palestinian Territories.” More on that below.
On Jan. 4, Abbas’ presidential decree acknowledged the State of Palestine. It followed gaining U.N. non-member observer...
