I just witnessed a Sahrawi student protest in Agadir today. Two Sahrawi students were killed last night when a Supratours bus (bus B-A 6687), deliberately ran them over at the bus station in Agadir, according to 24 year old Ahmed Salem Dohi who was at the scene and was visibly upset when I met him. Four Sahrawi […]
In the wake of the global financial crisis, 2008 is a year for serious reflection on the meaning of globalization and the importance of economic policy coordination. The overall attitude amongst the leading industrial powers at this November's G20 summit is to maintain domestic stability under a framework for reform of the global financial system. […]
Now that you have managed to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday, fat and happy your mind has begun to drifted away from thoughts of turkey and stuffing, and not to mention pumpkin pie, to thoughts of holiday giving. This year most of our wallets are not as fat as they once were and charitable […]
Today marks World AIDS Day, the day was marked by a number of events, educational programs and, pledges, as Governments around the world used the occasion of World AIDS Day Monday to pledge greater efforts to end discrimination against victims of HIV/AIDS and to fund treatment programs. The number of people living with HIV/AIDS has […]
When one mentions war ones first thought drifts to Iraq, and then one may think of the DRC thanks to recent media coverage, however the continual plague of war in many countries, including Afghanistan, continues. While attention has long since faded since the October 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the country remains engrossed in conflict, and […]
Happy Thanksgiving to our readers. It was, of course, not a happy holiday for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India; Jose Guardia has this running summary. This is CNN's. At least 160 people, including four Americans, appear to be dead in Cafe Leopold, the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, and the Chabad […]
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, – the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” – Horace Mann (1796,1859) American educational reformer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1827-1833) and Senate (1834-1837). Education is truly the key to equality, and with equality one will […]
–Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pardons one turkey while other birds meet their fate in the background. —Jhumpa Lahiri, author of the Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake, is one of the three immigrant writers interviewed on NPR this week about what it means to be an American. –Will this giant rabbit help solve world hunger? […]
Today American's set forth to escape the ciaos that has become our everyday lives to spend the day amongst family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, and as we gather around tables covered in American traditions old and new, let us not forget the meaning of the holiday. Regardless of your views, or thoughts, on the […]
Arrests after Afghan acid attack Police in Afghanistan arrested 10 suspects accused of brutally attacking schoolgirls by throwing acid into their faces. All of the men are Taliban insurgent fighters; several have confessed to the crime. President Hamid Karzai has called for their public execution. Chinese officials’ shifting quake tolls anger parents of children who […]
Education is the one sure ticket out of poverty for millions of children around the world. Yet while we know that knowledge is power, there are still 72 million children globally who do not have access to quality schooling. However the power behind education is not just found in giving one access to an education, […]
On the Djemaa el-Fna, a square in Marrakesh, a small girl sits on a pink plastic chair. On her lap is a tray of almond cookies. All around her the world passes by, unaware of her existence. She sits and waits for a sale. Behind her is a band of young men gathered around a […]
Thankfully for the future and our global security children are increasingly being brought into the fight against climate change. Earlier this month, on 14 November, The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) enlisted the help of North American youth to help tackle climate change at a summit in Chicago. The educational campaign, "Kick the Carbon Habit", […]
The Bush administration, in an about face, has decided to release Salim Hamdan, the former driver for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, from detention at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility. Hamdan has emerged as the center-piece for the Bush administration's detainee policy in the so-called war on terror. Hamdan was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. […]
The senior leadership of the Holy Land Foundation was convicted today of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists – in this case, Hamas – as well as money laundering and tax evasion. The Dallas Morning News describes the changes each side made to their case after the first prosecution ended in a mistrial. The […]