NANOTECHNOLOGY IN CUBA
Orfilio Peláez
NANOTECHNOLOGY, the driving force behind what many researchers see as the most important industrial development of the last 200 years, was initially developed by different branches of the military industry within a small group of highly industrialized countries, led by the United States, which had the resources to invest and the desire to maintain its position of global ...
ISLAM AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Frei Betto
THE Innocence of Muslims is the title of a U.S. film directed by one Sam Bacile, which defames the prophet Mohammad and offends all those who subscribe to this faith.
Who is Sam Bacile? No one knows. The film’s director, perhaps fearing reprisals, has hidden in anonymity. It is suspected that Bacile and the producer, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Coptic Christian who lives ...
IMF..ACHILLES HEEL OF PNP AND JLP
Both Political parties since our independence with the exception of the period of the Michael Manley government, Jamaica has been expose to the constant deepening of our national debt. We are now owing over 1.7 Trillion dollars with seventy five percent owed to private Jamaican interests. The main stream media in Jamaica refuse to expose the selfish behavior of the private sector by not showing ...
CHALLENGES OF RIO+20
Ignacio Ramonet
BRAZIL is hosting, June 20-22, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also called Río+20, given that it is being held 20 years after the first great Earth Summit of 1992. Attending are 80 heads of state and discussion will focus on two central issues: 1) a "green economy" in the context of sustainable development and the eradication of poverty, and 2) the ...
OBAMA'S LATIN AMERICAN POLICY
TAKEN FROM GRANMA/DALIA GONZALES DELGADO
WHEN the presidents of Latin American countries first heard about Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008, they thought that perhaps U.S. policy toward the region might change.
In 2009, just months after taking office, Obama tried to promote this hope at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Trinidad & Tobago. He approached Chávez there, extended his hand and ...
The need to enrich our knowledge
(Taken from CubaDebate)
FILMED scenes of the slaughter in Libya, which are beginning to be made known, prompt outrage over the total absence of humanism and the gross lies which served as the pretext to invade and seize that country’s natural resources.
NATO military aircraft supported the monstrous crime with more than 25,000 combat missions.
They stated that the Libyan ...
The roads lead to dissater
This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without any risk of being mistaken. Our species is confronting new problems. When I stated 20 years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today to warn of a danger, one which could perhaps be perceived as 100 ...
Government should legislate People,s Power
The newly elected government should immediately called parliament into session and legislate the most important pressing issues facing the country at this time,unemployment and the astronomical debt that we cannot pay.The high unemployment is the reason for the high crime rate, the increase in foreclosure,the migration of our skilled professional to the western ...
Syria:heralding a change in the international strategic situation?
EVIDENTLY the Cold War ended in the final decade of the 20th century with the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the European socialist countries, but the U.S. plan of domination enshrined in the Project for the New American Century, drawn up by a group of neoconservative and Zionist strategists, remains in the minds of Washington politicians.
However, Democrat and Republican priorities on the ...
PRINCE WILLIAM TO ARGENTINA...PRINCE HARRY TO JAMAICA
Is this the re-emergence of the British Empire? Fresh from their coordinated mission in Libya, they used the cover of the no-fly zone approved by the United Nations and remove the sovereign leader and founder of the Organization of African unity. Prince William is leading a contingent of military unit to the Falkland Island, an island claim by Argentina. Prince Harry visit to its old ...
UNICEF:Millions of Kids Live in Urban Squalor
Millions of children are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living close to them, the United Nations Children's Fund said Tuesday.
UNICEF said children living in slums and shantytowns often lack water, electricity and health care and it urged policy makers to ensure urban planning meets the needs of children.
The agency said it is common for statistics to ...
Russians Revive Ice Age Flower From Frozen Burrow
MOSCOW (AP) — It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species.
The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be ...
The World has shrunk...
The mainstream media using words to mislead the real world of their blatant violation of the sovereignty of countries. According to the united nations there are one hundred and ninety two member states but when CNN reports of the world united against Iran,Libya,Iraq andAfghanistan it really means the combination of the old colonial ...
Jamaica's parliament... forum for deceit
Since the political independence from the British throne our legislative process has been conducted by the two major political parties in Jamaica. Both parties having their original guidance and leadership emanating from establish political families and tied to the powerful networks of financial interest have prevented the establishment of a true representation of democracy in Jamaica. We ...
Evo Morales accuses NGO,s of spying for the UNITED STATES
BOLIVIA.— Bolivian President Evo Morales has stated that certain non-governmental organizations are acting as a fifth column for the United States by passing on information about Latin America labor and social leaders in exchange for project funding.
"I am convinced that certain NGO’s are spying for the United States, not just in Bolivia but throughout Latin America, because it is ...
LIFE WITHOUT BLACK PEOPLE
A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people who were fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished themselves away. They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there is an America without black people. At first these white people breathed a sigh of ...
Jamaica,s Debt Problem...Solution
The recent general election saw the Jamaica labor Party suffered a massive defeat at the polls giving the opposition a landslide victory. The young and inexperience Andrew Holness in his pursuit of satisfying the interest of the international monetary fund and the private sector infuriated the working class when he made statement about their pension plans. What majority of Jamaicans ...
UN demands end to israel demolitions in West Bank
The United Nations has called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year.
Israeli forces destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West Bank in 2011, "forcibly displacing" almost 1,100 people, over half of them children, according to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
Jamaica,IMF expect to negotiate new deal
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica and the International Monetary Fund expect to begin negotiations in the coming weeks on a new deal as grim economic forecasts pose significant dangers for the debt-schackled Caribbean island, officials announced Tuesday.
At a press briefing in the capital of Kingston, Finance Minister Peter Phillips and IMF mission chief Luis Breuer said there is a ...
U.S. economic war on Iran....Pepe Escobar
NEW YORK - Here's a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy.
A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 - when no one was paying attention - imposes sanctions on any countries or companies that buy Iranian oil and pay for it through Iran's central bank. Starting this summer, anybody who does so ...