Stevie Wonder Becomes United Nations "Messenger Of Peace"
Famous musician Stevie Wonder will become a "Messenger Of Peace" with the United Nations. Wonder will be focusing with the rights of people with disabilities. Wonder has been blind from birth, and is not new to the human rights movement. He used to campaign against apartheid...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 1 day ago | updated 1 day ago
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Obama's Afghanistan Speech to outline Exit & Escalation Strategy
President Obama will announce his plan in a long expected decision next Tuesday, December 1st. President Obama will address the nation at 8pm EDT from West Point Military Academy. In his speech, which will...
created by albertacowpoke | 1 wk ago | updated 2 days ago
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408 views | 31 recommendations | 31 comments
1/12/2009 World HIV/AIDS Day
Today is 1. December. The World HIV/AIDS day by the UN. The day when it needed/must to remember to those who died in AIDS caused illnesses. But for me beside the memories of a lost love, it's the day to look around...
Money or Life? Which is more important?
Where has our outrage gone? There was a time when a crime involving children was cause for an outcry. The desire for revenge against the monsters that harm our children. But lately, it seems, as if a...
Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law days before UN Climate Negotiation
Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed "anti-riot law", less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations...
Invasion of Iraq was legal but of Quesionable Legitimacy
Saddam Hussein's Iraq had been a thorn in the eye of the United States since the days of Bill Clinton. The U.S. Administration advocated regime change prior to George W. Bush's arrival on the...
created by albertacowpoke | 5 days ago | updated 5 days ago
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164 views | 24 recommendations | 15 comments
Stop the War Now
Sitting on my bunk at Ft. Polk Louisiana in 1969, I was reading China on the Eve of Communist Takeover, Arthur Doak Barnett, Praeger, 1963, a book that I was assigned to read in Political Science class before...
Japan's PM, Yukio Hatoyama to keep electoral promises.
By, Uwe Paschen. Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister intends to keep his electoral promises in spite of resistance on several fronts. Japan’s Democratic Party just won last August National...
North Korea Crisis provoked to create fear in Japan and S-Korea.
By, Uwe Paschen. The North Korean Crisis may be blown out of proportion to get Japan and South Korea to side with the US against China and Russia. More and more articles from Asia start suggesting that...
Scientology Churches Mark UNESCO Day of Tolerance
MANCHESTER—Churches of Scientology around the world marked the International Day of Tolerance commemorating the founding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) this week...
Transnationalism: Muslims-Blasphemy Ban; Obama-US in World Court
If you don't like transnational corporations because they can hide profits around the world to avoid taxes, shifts jobs at will to the lowest cost workers, avoid pollution laws we create in first-world nations,...
Bangladesh's Little Girls Given Hope to Avoid Early Marriage
NGO's working in Bangladesh to register children's births are giving hope to little girls to avoid early marriages. Bangladesh is a signatory to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC or CRC) which...
created by Barbara McPherson | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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154 views | 36 recommendations | 1 comment
