Katrina Pain Index: Measuring New Orleans’ Devastation Three Years Later
The United States’ economic crisis and simultaneous wars have left New Orleans as an afterthought. This is what the city looks like today.
Tags: New Orleans, UN, United StatesThe United States’ economic crisis and simultaneous wars have left New Orleans as an afterthought. This is what the city looks like today.
Tags: New Orleans, UN, United StatesUnless you have Plan B in your medicine cabinet, it’s highly unlikely you’ll get your hands on a morning-after pill the morning after.
Tags: UNShocking but true: An American city, in the year 2008, asked a jury to declare that a movie of adults having sex is illegal.
No tags for this post.From the primaries to the convention, the media have become experts at inventing a storyline and skewing facts to support it.
Tags: ObamaObama has shown the pathway out of the decades-long, ruinous mess conservative rule has created.
Tags: conservative, ObamaUndercurrents in association with VisionOnTV reported the people who are making a differenece by working together collectively. When large numbers of determined and well-organised people get together they can turn things around, making a historic difference.The climate camp aimed to do just that. Whether it’s participating in the collective organisation of the camp, taking part [...]
Tags: climate change, corporate, government, UK, UNBy Paul Stott | Few terrorist attacks have had such contrary explanations as the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Sunday evening at 9pm the BBC2’s Conspiracy Files enters the fray, examining some of the claims and counter claims.
One interesting question is whether the programme will feature either of Britain’s two best known [...]
Human Rights Watch | This Wednesday, unless the UK foreign secretary takes rapid action, Britain’s High Court will hold a hearing to assess whether the UK government should be ordered to hand over secret documents to lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee. The detainee in question, Binyam Mohamed, faces possible charges of conspiracy and material support for [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ethiopia, government, guantanamo, human rights, London, military, Morocco, Pakistan, UK, UN, United StatesSen. Joe Biden shows that he gets what’s going on in America, not with stats, but around middle-class kitchen tables.
Tags: UNMany economists are saying that oil markets are working as they should, but their arguments are weak.
Tags: oilBreast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with one in nine women affected at some stage in their lives.
Tags: Australia, breast cancer, cancerDespite sunny media reports about post-Katrina rebuilding, the facts on the ground reveal a stark portrait of a city transformed.
Tags: New Orleans, UNBiden, Obama, and the Dems are rallying to escalate the war in Afghanistan. But trading one war for another would be catastrophic.
Tags: Afghanistan, ObamaA new wave of food colonialism is taking food from the mouths of the poor.
No tags for this post.Amid soaring temperatures, Baghdad’s Water Authority says three million people in Baghdad have no access to running water.
Tags: drinking water, UN, waterThe parties’ conventions offer plenty of opportunity to skirt the spirit of campaign finance laws without violating them.
Tags: UNObama’s advisers will be the ones whispering in the president’s ear and pulling the levers of executive power.
Tags: ObamaBikini car washes, inexplicably sanctioned by many parents, teach girls the best way to turn a buck is by stripping down for men.
No tags for this post.Drinking, complaining and getting massages are just a few of reporters’ preferred convention activities.
No tags for this post.Conservatives finally learned that moralizing doesn’t keep teens from having sex. Now they have a creepy new tactic.
Tags: conservativeObama’s advisers will be the ones whispering in the president’s ear and pulling the levers of executive power.
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