Venezuela Gives Up
Yesterday US Secretary of State John Kerry announced at a summit in Guatemala that Venezuela would begin a dialogue with the United State with a view to restoring the United States embassy in Caracas.
Written by Chris White
The announcement...
NSA Under Scrutiny for ‘Orwellian’ Order
The news that the NSA has been collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans is an example of the genuine threat of ‘Big Brother’ governance in the digital era. While it shouldn’t surprise people that the government...
Brazil Prostitute Advert
The Brazilian Government has dropped a controversial anti-STD’s campaign poster because it bore the words “I am happy being a prostitute”, in a bid to combat prejudice against sex workers.
Written by Chris White
Brazilian Health Minister...
Central Europe Deluged
Rivers in the Danube area of Central Europe have broken their banks and deluged large parts of the countryside and urban centres such as Prague, Passau and Salzburg in large swathes of overflowing river water.
Written by Chris White
In the Bavarian...
Indian Growth At 10 Year Low
Official Indian statistics for India’s 2012-2013 fiscal year show that India’s economic growth was at the lowest it has ever been for a decade, with the economy growing at an annual rate of only 5% compared to India’s 2011 growth of about...
Nigeria Outlaws Gays
Yesterday the Nigerian legislature approved a bill that would explicitly outlaw homosexual marriage and make public displays of homosexual behaviour a criminal offense.
Written by Chris White
The Nigerian House of Representatives approved the...
Latin Fraternal Fracas
The governments of Colombia and Venezuela are at loggerheads after Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos met the Venezuelan Opposition Leader Henrique Capriles, causing outrage within Venezuela’s tottering Socialist regime which in recent...
Stimulus Crumbling as China Slows Down
World stock markets tumbled today after Chinese production for the first time in seven months and as Ben Shalom Bernanke announced that the Federal Reserve was preparing to scale back on bond-buying as the US economy maintains full growth moment,...
Lingua Franca Fracas
Outrage was sparked in France after it was revealed the French National Assembly was taking up an education reform bill that would permit French universities to hold some technical courses in things like science and economics, in English.
The...
Only Two Paths Left for The United States
There is one fact of which Americans can be sure.
The federal government is corrupt to such an extent that only a comprehensive purge of its personnel, a complete revision of its policies and a drastic reduction in its size can prevent its inevitable...
