This video from Harvard University in the USA says about itself:
Dec 8, 2011
As a historian, what if you took the entire premise of your research and turned it upside down? What if what you found was not a story of rehabilitation, but a story of torture, murder, and massive cover-up?
Ten years of work by Caroline Elkins, a professor of history at Harvard University, exposed a massive cover-up by the British Empire in colonial Kenya.
Source: GlobalFaultlines
A mother’s day gift in Venezuela
Here is some news that the conservative critics of Venezuela’s leftist government will not publicize. The Chavistas announced that a new labour law, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women, will come into effect this week. Full-time mothers will now be able to collect a pension.
Read more at: http://globalfaultlines.org/2013/05/20/a-mothers-day-gift-in-venezuela-by-thomas-ponniah/
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
The power of the media
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being Continue reading
HAVANA, May, 18 - A training program for deaf and blind children opened in central Villa Clara province in an effort to teach the kids first-aid actions, so that they help rescue victims of accidents and natural disasters.
Source: http://www.avn.info.ve/contenido/maduro-proposes-create-central-workers-union-celac
The President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro proposed Tuesday the creation of a Central Workers Union for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in order to re-articulate the labor movement in Latin America.
“When are we going to have a powerful bloc of Latin America and the Caribbean? We Continue reading
Source: The Real News
The march comes 45 years after the original Poor People’s Campaign that was organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Among those taking part was Bob Ross, who took part in the original Poor People’s March in 1968 and is currently the president of the NAACP’s Prince George’s County Branch.
See also:
1968 Year in Review – Poor People’s March at :http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1968/Poor-People%27s-March/12303153093431-5/
New Front in the Fight for Freedom: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/king/b1.html
Latin America is the region leading the struggle for eliminating hunger, Jose Graziano da Silva, director general of the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), said.
During the presentation of an agreement between FAO and the international organization Slow Food, Da Silva stressed that Latin America is currently the region with more progress towards the eradication of this scourge.
At the same time, he said that Europe was backward in this area as a result of the economic crisis, since rising jobless people go to food banks to stock.
