PEACE-KEEPERS OR BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS ? By Venatrix Fulmen A Call to End the Deadly Impact of Foreign Troopers on Innocent Civilians OUTBREAK +++Cholera+++RiftValleyFever+++MarburgFever+++DengueFever+ ++YellowFever+++HIV/AIDS+++Malaria+++AvianFlu+++SwineFlu++ +++HantaVirus+++ and so on – these lines run through the news tickers of media agencies every day. In well-off societies, at least the pharmaceutical industries are interested in upping […]
Agitation against ‘land grabbers’ in Rajarhat
Land agitation against forcible land acquisition and denial of compensation relating to the New Town project in Rajarhat by the Trinamool Congress, the main opposition party of Bengal and a bitter rival of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front government, will be like the ones the party waged in Singur and Nandigram. […]
Iran To Allow Protests And Recount Votes, Leaders In The West Say
According to Janet Lawrence writing for Reuters, Iran must allow peaceful protests against its disputed presidential election and ensure a fair result, Western governments said on Sunday, rejecting charges they were interfering in Iranian affairs. Foreign countries have played no part in supporting the violent street protests that erupted in […]
The Maldives, a Nation Moving Towards Democracy
Maldives is one of the founding members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and this island nation with a very glorious history is now heading towards a democratic governance and social system. As of ancient history of South Asia, the region had at least five clusters of civilization i. e. the Indus […]
Solar Eclipse Embarasses Government Tail in Russia
Posted by Veronica Khokhlova to Global Voices Online Russian photojournalist Oleg Klimov was in the city of Samara on August 1, the day of a total eclipse of the Sun, to meet with representatives of the local opposition. On his blog, he described (RUS) a rare case of conjunction of Russian politics and astronomy: […]
African Union Urged to Act on Zimbabwe
Analysts say only regional states have the power to end escalating crisis, but it is still unclear what measures they can agree on. By Caroline Tosh in London As President Robert Mugabe arrived in Egypt to attend an African Union, AU, summit, calls for the grouping to take resolute action on Zimbabwe are growing ever […]