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It is too easy to take Medicare for granted, to make assumptions about it that miss or obscure its real value: that it provides what everyone should be entitled to –and guaranteed– throughout their lives. But, that is not the reality. Consider a 2010 report on health in the United States produced by the Center for...
Land is life. It is the basis of livelihoods for peasants and indigenous people across the Third World and is also becoming the most vital asset in the global economy. As the resource demands of globalization increase, land has emerged as a key source of conflict. In India, 65 per cent of people are dependent...
Our hearts go out to the people of Japan, who are suffering the horrendous effects of a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami. Watching the news clips of the natural disasters in Japan makes us realize yet again the enormous power of nature and the limits of our capacities to control such power. Large buildings, roadways...
On April 21, 2008, an assistant high school principal placed an advertisement in Al-Ahram, the largest daily newspaper in Egypt, pleading disparately with President Hosni Mubarak and his wife to intervene and release her daughter from prison. It turned out that her 27 year-old daughter, Israa’ Abd el-Fattah, was arrested 10 days earlier because of...
Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups. The new initiatives are viewed as part of an ongoing drive by right-wing politicians in Israel to demand “loyalty” from the country’s large minority population of...
While progressives and leftists write about the “crises of capitalism”, manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank. From the first quarter of this year, corporate profits have shot up between twenty to over a hundred percent, (Financial...
An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intending to kill peace activists as a way to deter future convoys. Haneen Zoubi said Israeli naval vessels had surrounded the flotilla’s flagship,...
As we start to analyze the results of the 2010 election, we may be witnessing a reversal in the fortunes of the far-Right British National Party (BNP) in England. Its leader, Nick Griffin, actually polled nearly two per cent less in Barking than the BNP did at the last general election and the BNP did...
Yesterday, May 24, Mary Kendall, Acting Inspector General at the United States Department of the Interior, sent a report to Commerce Secretary Ken Salazar. In her cover note, she wrote: “I am forwarding our investigative report entitled ‘Island Operating Company, et. al’ which addresses a number of allegations that Minerals Management Service (MMS) employees at...
My mistake. At first, I thought that President Obama was sending National Guard troops to the Gulf Coast to take charge of the unfolding eco-catastrophe caused by one of the world’s richest oil companies. It turns out, according to a Washington Post story by Michael Shear, that the president is sending them to the U.S.-Mexican...
As the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spread, we can trace its damage, direct and indirect, through the state of Louisiana, up and down the gulf coast to Washington, D.C., where temporary drilling bans have been announced and oil executives called to testify before our elected officials. While experts predict...
