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Design-Focused University: Is It Really Needed?
The baby boomers are gone, and we need a new breed to continue what they started. Today, design is an obligatory and additional academic subject in majority of American universities. Design is being taught
Read More »Russian security forces shoot 3 suspects dead
Agence France-Presse Russian security forces yesterday shot dead three people suspected of organizing the suicide bombings in the Moscow metro. Security forces attempted to detain the three, but killed them after they fired back.
Read More »Libya air crash inquiry under way
Aviation officials in Libya are investigating the plane crash that killed 103 people at Tripoli airport. The flight recorders have been recovered and handed over to analysts for clues on what brought down the
Read More »The End is at Hand (to Leftist Conspiracy Theories)
By Dave Lindorff With the polls continuing to show Barack Obama holding a steady or even growing lead heading into Election Day, especially in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, New
Read More »Documents Show Tobacco Industry Conspired Against Airline Smoking Ban
PR Watch | An analysis of tobacco industry documents published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) tells how the German cigarette industry worked to stop Lufthansa, the flagship airline of Germany, from banning smoking
Read More »DARPA Contract Description Hints at Advanced Video Spying
By Walter Pincus | Real-time streaming video of Iraqi and Afghan battle areas taken from thousands of feet in the air can follow actions of people on the ground as they dig, shake hands,
Read More »No More Investment Banks
Turn Them Into Public Utilities By Mike Whitney “If you made it past the credit crisis, you are not making it past the economic carnage.” Meredith A. Whitney, market analyst at Oppenheimer
Read More »System Failure and the Need for Revolution
by Raymond Lotta | The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of letting up. The financial edifice of U.S. imperialism is in danger of crumbling. The U.S. ruling class
Read More »Pilger’s law: ‘If it’s been officially denied, then it’s probably true’
John Pilger, scourge of injustice, is still battling after half a century of campaigns. He’s even gunning for Tony Blair. By Ian Burrell Cross the threshold of John Pilger’s south London home and the
Read More »Riot police use violence to break up student demonstration
Harare – Riot police broke up a student demonstration in Harare, injuring at least four people and arresting three Tuesday, in the first such incident of police violence since the signing of a power-sharing
Read More »Solutions for a Sustainable World
TNI | The Schumacher lectures are traditionally held in Bristol but have now branched out so that Schumacher North, based in Leeds, also organises the series. They occupy a day, with three people delivering lectures
Read More »Bush To Provide $6.4 Billion In Arms To Taiwan
BigNewsNetwork | The U.S. government is to sell $6.4 billion of weapons to Taiwan, the State Department announced on Friday. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said Congressional approval was required, but believes this
Read More »Investigating ‘Africa’s Guantanamo’
Salim Awadh is talking to me from inside a cell somewhere in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. By Robert Walker | There are seven other prisoners kept in the same small, dark room, he
Read More »No “Bailout” for the World’s Poorest
By Thalif Deen | As a spreading financial crisis threatens to deepen the economic recession in the United States, the news of an unprecedented 700-billion-dollar bailout package reverberated through the corridors of the United
Read More »The Oppression of Black People, the Crimes of this System, and the Revolution We Need
http://revcom.us/a/144/BNQ-en.html | “The young man was shot 41 times while reaching for his wallet”…“the 13-year-old was shot dead in mid-afternoon when police mistook his toy gun for a pistol”… “the unarmed young man, shot by
Read More »Lies, Crimes and Cover-ups – Human Rights Watch in Venezuela
By James Petras | Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a Congressional funded political propaganda organization, the
Read More »Rights groups demonstrate outside UN
Amnesty International and human rights activists are expected to send a message to United Nations Security Council at a rally on Thursday evening urging the body to reject efforts to block indictment of Sudanese
Read More »Will International Law Reach Bush?
By Peter Dyer | Q: What do Radovan Karadzic, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and George W. Bush have in common? A: Each lives under the slowly growing shadow of a body
Read More »Did The World Narrowly Avoid “Financial Armageddon” Last Week?
By Mike Adams | According to insider traders speaking to the New York Post, the global financial system was only 500 trades away from experiencing a global meltdown — “Financial Armageddon” — which was
Read More »When Corporations Rule the World
PCDF | Those of us who seek to intervene in policy debates in favor of economic justice and environmentally sustainability are regularly assured by the world’s power brokers that they are fully committed to these goals
Read More »Irish politicians back calls for universal arms trade treaty
Politicians from all the main parties have given their support to a global campaign to ban the sale of arms to conflict zones such as Darfur and Burma, where they are likely to be
Read More »Top Ten Ways to Reduce Plastic Consumption
By Neil McLaughlin | By now you have likely heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a tragic byproduct of the plastics industry and consumerism that is an island of garbage floating in the
Read More »FIVE FORMER SECRETARIES OF STATE SUPPORT DIRECT TALKS WITH IRAN
National Security Network – Five former American secretaries of state all reaffirmed their support for direct talks with Iran. Henry Kissinger went as far as to say that there must be high-level talks with
Read More »Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan
By Neil Mackay | THE CIA SENT ITS agents into Uzbekistan torture chambers to observe the abuse of alleged Islamic terrorists, acc-ording to a dissident member of the Uzbek security services who is now seeking political asylum in the UK after
Read More »Writers, Film-makers Defy Censors
IPS | “I don’t sell cocaine,” says the video vendor in Kano’s Rimi market when I ask for Adam Zango’s music video CD Bahaushiya. He is not referring to the white powder, but instead
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