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How to Use Heat Energy Radiating from the Earth’s Core To Produce Food

Human Wrongs Watch Rome — Geothermal energy, the flow of heat energy radiating from the earth’s core, provides unique opportunities for cost efficient, sustainable food production and processing in developing countries, says a new report published by FAO on 7 April…

No Immigration Reforms in the US under Obama.

New York, April 8, 2015 – During a Town Hall Meeting on immigration held in Jackson Heights tonight, the district’s congressman Joe Crowley said he was doubtful that any immigration reform would pass during what remains of President Obama’s second…

From Punta del Este to Panama, the End of Cuba’s Isolation

By Patricia Grogg. HAVANA, Apr 8 2015 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama was only four days old when Comandante Ernesto “Che” Guevara publicly castigated the United States’ policy of hostility toward Cuba at an inter-American summit, reiterated then Prime…

Latest Neoliberal attack in the [UK] legal system

By Mel Strickland, for Occupy London Latest neoliberal reform in the legal system: the introduction of criminal court charges coming into effect on 13 April ranging from £150 – £1200 – it will incentivise people to plead guilty as the…

Hong Kong – There are better solutions than building a third runway

A recent article by Professor James Wang implicitly opposes the idea of building a third runway at Hong Kong International Airport. He said most international financial centres have more than one airport to support their inbound and outbound air traffic,…

Saving Passengers of the Good Ship “Titan… Earth”

On 15 April 1912, the Titanic, the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The large and unnecessary death toll – more than 1,500…

Disarmament of Nuclear and ‘Conventional’ Weapons Urgent amid Mounting Global Violence

Human Wrongs Watch New York – The United Nations disarmament chief on 6 April 2015 urged Member States to work actively and seek common ground on disarmament issues related to nuclear weapons and conventional arms amid a period of increasing global tensions…

Genetically modified food in the UK and TTIP

By LINDA KAUCHER 2 April 2015 for OpenDemocracy Unless we act to prevent it, we are likely to have genetically modified food on our supermarket shelves, soon. Following on from the anti-GM activism of the late 1990s and early 2000’s,…

Jammu-Kashmir experiences damaging floods

Jammu y Cachemira se ha visto afectada por las inundaciones grave de la historia que han causado estragos en varios distritos. Jammu es capital de invierno de Cachemira con las familias más acomodadas que baja de la propia Cachemira para…

Bangladesh impasse – resolution lies with Gov’t

After a three-month long siege, Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief returned home April 5 from her Gulshan party office. How funny that game of the government where law enforcers confined her there with sand-laden trucks. Independent observers opine it was only to…

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