Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day: Feb 12, 1809 by David P. Barash Here’s a nice coincidence: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day: February 12, 1809. Both were great emancipators: Lincoln, as every school-child knows, freed the slaves; Darwin, as every creationist resists, freed our [...]
por Leonardo David Jiménez Molinello Diversas afirmaciones sin sustento teórico coherente y sobre todo sin evidencia objetiva que las confirmen se han subrayado sobre las supuestas conveniencias del actual TLC con Estados Unidos para desarrollar las inmensas posibilidades que tiene la economía bolivarense.
Los integrantes de Pastores por la Paz pisaron tierra cubana hace unos minutos en su viaje número 23 a la Isla, con un cargamento de casi cien toneladas de ayuda humanitaria.
Al menos 70 % de la población campesina de Colombia (1,36 millones de hogares) se verá afectada con una disminución del 16 % en sus ingresos con la entrada en vigor desde ayer del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con EE. UU., según un estudio divulgado en Bogotá por organizaciones no gubernamentales.
As the United States carries out another deadly drone strike in Yemen, Noam Chomsky compares the counterterrorism policies of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. “If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers,” Chomsky says. “If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder [...]
Escuche el audio Por Amy Goodman El Pentágono lo conoce. Las principales empresas de seguros del mundo lo conocen. Los gobiernos pueden ser derrocados a causa de él. Es el cambio climático, y es real. Según la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica de Estados Unidos, en marzo se registraron temperaturas récord en Estados Unidos, lo [...]
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Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. They offered an artist’s impressions of what the place would look like — a giant self-sufficient compound both [...]
Em entrevista, especialista em tecnologia na rede elucida o que está por trás do cerco à liberdade na internet Eduardo Sales de Lima O professor na universidade de Princeton e apresentador do MOD MTV, Ronaldo Lemos, acredita que se leis semelhantes à SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act, Lei de Combate à Pirataria Online, tradução livre) [...]
China in US gunsights Interesting piece from the BBC website talking up what is quite widely known now, that the strategic aim of the western armies, especially the USA and UK, is to focus on a war with China.