Senator urges Obama to rescind pay raise for Congress
Published December 31, 2012 FoxNews.com Dec. 28, 2012: President Obama speaks in the briefing room at the White House. (AP) Washington –  Republican Sen. Rob Portman is urging President Obama to rescind a recent executive order granting pay increases to Congress and other federal officials, saying the move doesn’t exactly jibe with the country’s debt crisis. […]
Read More →Ring in Redress to All Humankind By Prof. Al Mariam
2012 is gone. 2013 is on the way. Let us ring in redress to all humankind. I wish a happy and prosperous new year to all of my readers throughout the world. To those who have unwearyingly followed my columns for nearly three hundred uninterrupted weeks, I wish to express my deep gratitude and appreciation. […]
Read More →Understand the Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, December 31, 2012 The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky In this expanded edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and […]
Read More →Four mobile apps every reporter should use in 2013
by Margaret Looney With smartphone costs dropping as the devices become more readily available worldwide, it is easier than ever to have a reporting toolkit at your fingertips. It’s also easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of apps. To simplify matters, here are four apps that fulfill most of a mobile journalist’s […]
Read More →In Africa, lots of good news in the fight against AIDS
A government medical worker at the National AIDS & STI Control Program, NASCOP, looks on March 29, 2012 at an HIV rapid test kits that was among those recalled by the Kenyan government from its clinics earlier in the year. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) Major funding to fight AIDS in Africa, initiated by George W. Bush, […]
Read More →Two amateur astronomers in Russia were said to have found the Comet ISON, named after the International Scientific Optical Network that made the discovery. Alexander Besant
Comet with tail heading toward the sun may outshine the moon A newly discovered comet that is heading toward the sun may prove to be the celestial event of the century. (Ligustri Rolando/NASA/Courtesy) What do you think? A newly discovered comet has the potential to outshine the moon says NASA. Two amateur astronomers in Russia were said […]
Read More →Where is Eritrea’s Information Minister Ali Abdu? (Mohamed Keita – CPJ)
By Mohamed Keita, CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed, government spokesman and censor-in-chief of the Red Sea nation, has been invisible in the past few weeks. The total absence of any independent press in Eritrea has allowed the government to maintain complete silence in the face of mounting questions and surging […]
Read More →Senate Leaders Racing to Forge a Tax Deal as Deadline Nears By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ANNIE LOWREY
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders and their aides spent Saturday searching for a formula to extend tax cuts for most Americans that could win bipartisan support in the Senate and final approval in the fractious House by the new year, hoping to prevent large tax increases and budget cuts that could threaten the fragile economy. Enlarge […]
Read More →Four dead as passenger jet crashes into highway outside Moscow (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Russian police investigators and emergency services teams work at the Tu-204 jet crash site near the Vnukovo airport outside Moscow on December 29, 2012. (RIA Novosti) (56.4Mb)embed video A passenger jet crashed into a highway after making a hard landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. At least four people were killed and four critically injured, says […]
Read More →Save Mali Before It’s Too Late
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By OUMOU SALL SECK Published: December 28, 2012 Bamako, Mali Related News Islamists’ Harsh Justice Is on the Rise in North Mali (December 28, 2012) For Op-Ed, follow@nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow@andyrNYT. HOW would the United States government react if a huge section of its territory were occupied by […]
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