November 2010

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Americans Remarkably Detached from Wars being Fought In their Names

Video Anastasia Churkina of Russia Today interviews Tom Engelhardt, author of the book American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's about the extent of America's military presence throughout the world. Engelhardt is also founder of the blog TomDispatch, which tries to make sense of the post 9/11 world and is described as "a regular antidote to the mainstream media." According to Engelhardt, the United States of America (US) has more or less set up bases of varying sizes all over...

Our Water Crisis: Seizing Opportunity From Danger

Picture: KonradC Glenn Ashton - Water management in South Africa is in serious crisis. Consumers were recently told to wash their fruit and vegetables as they could be infected by disease causing E. coli  microbes because the crops were irrigated with water contaminated by sewage.  Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is killing not just crocodiles but entire riverine eco-systems. Our dams, rivers and streams are becoming ever more stressed due to the low flows of water that remain in them because of illegal over-abstraction...

Brazil Votes In First Female President

Video Brazilians have voted in Dilma Rousseff of the Worker's Party as the country's next president. She takes over from wildly popular outgoing president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has an approval rating of 83%. Rousseff, who was Lula's chief of staff, says she intends continuing Lula's legacy by carrying on with nearly all of his programmes. Rousseff officially takes up her post as president of the country on 1 January 2011. Rousseff defeated Jose Serra of the Social Democratic Party to...