Tag: tunisia
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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on True Crime
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for the month of March to talk about the media ‘Jinx’, left cover, USrael sElections, Rand and weed + ‘This Day In History’ headlines and more on Deadline Live! Download/Subscribe
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Tunisia’s New Constitution Breakthrough for Women’s Rights
from care2.com: Tunisia’s new Constitution has captured international headlines. It enshrines many rights for women and is a step in the right direction, according to many Tunisians. Sana Ben Achour, women’s rights activist and law student, stresses that this Constitution is the first in the Arab world to give all Tunisians, women and men, the…
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obama continues elite’s agenda of leading US to ‘tragedy’
video: econ prof says ‘no way forward for US’ from press tv: The US president is incapable of coping with the changing world, brought along by ignorance of its own internal welfare, a professor of binary economics says, describing the situation as a “tragedy” for Americans. “President Obama’s foreign policy is bankrupt and his domestic…
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As Oil and Food Prices Rise, Arab States Buy Up Farmland In Africa
In response to the recent food riots in Algeria and Tunisia, and to rising oil prices (the price/barrel of crude is, once again, nearing $100) some Arab states (including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) have been buying-up farm land in parts of Africa.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Egypt Protests, NBC/Comcast, Big Brother Corporation
Story #1: Egypt Protests Told Through Social Media // Story #2: How the Comcast/NBC Universal Merger Affects You // Story #3: How BBC Bosses Ordered Presenter to Downplay Queen Mother’s Death
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Hu’s On First: West Welcomes Most Favored Nation, Glimpses Future
Obama formally welcomes Chinese president Hu Jintao from latimes: President Obama welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House on Wednesday morning in a formal ceremony marked by the fanfare reserved only for a visiting head of state… The carefully choreographed ceremony began against the backdrop of music by a Navy brass band. In…
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corbett report: episode169 – argentina & the imf
from corbett report: This week we cast our eye to South America to focus on Argentina, a country that has found itself in the grip of the banksters for decades. We talk to Argentinian writer and researcher Adrian Salbuchi and Canadian economist Michel Chossudovsky as we interrogate the Argentinian dilemma. download episode169/subscribe the latest corbett…
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Mayhem Spreads In Tunisia As Curfew Decreed
from nytimes: The government of Tunisia scrambled alternately to appease and to crush growing unrest on Wednesday as a three-week-old wave of violent demonstrations spread for the first time to the capital, where swarms of protesters called for the ouster of the authoritarian president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The protesters came together after circulating calls…