Former Pakistan PM's onslaught on ruling party worries diplomats

The foreign diplomats in the Pakistan capital are worried because of a twice-elected former prime minister's onslaught on the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP)."ISLAMABAD, February 22 (Internews): The announcement by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to take on the ruling...

Pakistan Police Say They Foiled Attack

The suicide bomb attack on the Danish embassy may have been just the first in a coordinate series of planned attacks. pakistani police say they intercepted another bombing attempt in the country."Four days after a...

Unilever's 'Monkey Business' - Greenpeace swings into action

Greenpeace has launched a campaign today against the makers of Dove soap, who buy palm oil from companies wrecking Indonesia's forests.They launched this morning with some direct actions at the offices and...

Huge waves inundate Philippines' western coast, thousands flee

"Many were puzzled by the waves because Typhoon Mitag, which lashed the northern Philippines on Monday, had weakened into a storm and then blew out of the country toward southern Japan, causing the weather to...

Hillary Clinton: a good leader (for a girl)

This is a really interesting discussion of gender issues as they pertain to political leadership. Topical, relevant, and more than words."The possibility that America will elect its first woman president next...

Dove Viral Draws Heat From Critics

The beauty industry is in the eye of the beholder.  Behold the blowback...""Onslaught," from Ogilvy, Toronto, has amassed about 1 million views on YouTube since its Oct. 1 debut, still well under the 12...

Tips For Driving In The Winter

"Despite record-breaking warm temperatures in much of the country the past week or so, winter is coming, accompanied by the usual arrival of onslaught of snow, ice and the hazardous roads such weather produces. Many of us will be heading to the mountains to take advantage of...

"This is no longer Rwanda in slow motion"

Professor Eric Reeves has posted a lengthy essay on the situation in Darfur.  His conclusion:The violence in Darfur since the May 5, 2006 signing of the DPA [Darfur Peace Agreement--MP], which brought only the Minawi faction aboard, has been dramatically worse than the...

More Votes Than Registered Voters

The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.

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