Yes -- Knowledge is Power. That's why our political masters try to keep us in the dark. In Western nations (before these ruler-joke...

The European Parliament is debating if nutritional contents should be added to alcoholic drink labels . All other mass-produced drinks an...

This week is memorial to ANZAC, the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. Especially remembered are fighting & losses in 1915 at Gallip...

Why's Government keeping trade concessions secret? Why can't the people know? It's Piracy laddie! A corrupt insider scam. ...

A ruthless response Smothering debate with guns Cocky right-wing thugs Gunned down in the street Is Karachi beyond shame? Two unarme...

Former CIA Director David Petraeus mishandled highly sensitive information and violated the U.S. Espionage Act, sharing classified nationa...

This sensitive report will require more care to cover properly. But bare bones focus is three topics (as signified by "maa"): M...

Overloaded ferry Sewol 세월호 sank a year ago due to overloading, poor seamanship, and corrupt management. Hundreds of high-school students d...

The security services (NSA, FBI, GHQ, MI6, Mossad, etc.) collect and share massive amounts of information. They process and sort the inform...

Nuclear reactor restart is very unpopular in Japan, with only 27% in favor . But Prime Minister Abe's in a heap of hurry to restart Nip...

Careless billionaires Hungry spawn of Dr. Hwang Sewol Splashing Politician tears! So dry beside the ocean Sinking Gangnam style Hi...

Obama and close friends seek FAST Track authority to consummate new TPP laws ( Trans-Pacific Piracy laws ). FAST is spelt: F %#k  A me...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia banned slavery in 1962, under reported pressure from U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Of nearly a half-million f...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB, is preparing to launch under Chinese guidance. The USA (World Bank) and Japan (Asian Develo...

A recent police shooting in South Carolina, USA, was recorded by a passerby : Walter L. Scott was killed by North Charleston police officer...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB , ( 亚洲基础设施投资银行 or 亚投行 ) is just now finishing its drive for founding membership (31 March ...

The Fukushima nuclear plant is highly dangerous. It's dangerously unstable. The Mark I containment structure and spent fuel rods are ...

Trans-Pacific Piracy , the TPP agreement, hugely threatens self-determination. We're being forced to accept corporate controls. Elite...

Rastafari can celebrate the advent of Indiana's "religious freedom law" (SENATE ENROLLED ACT No. 101) by rolling a big splif...

The recent Germanwings air crash in the French Alps is being described now as a deliberate act (link); the dead co-pilot had a "psycho...

Trans-Pacific Piracy Big corporations seek to bind a dozen national governments to the new TPP agreement . The shackles will severely hur...

Too often it seems our political economy shuts out the common citizenry: huge corporate interests manipulate our politicians and dominate c...

The Foreign Ministers of Japan, South Korea & China have been meeting together, finding areas of agreement and building a groundwork fo...

The USA is frightened of East Asia finding common ground & co-prosperity. Discussions find Yankee somehow pushing in... Today'...

20 March 1995 I had an early appointment at a western Tokyo university. I walked from my home to Kasuga subway station, then rode a packed ...

Israeli PM Netanyahu, facing a tight election, tried to position his opponents as Arab-leaning, and promised never to allow a "two-sta...

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו Tuesday 17 March (2015) at 3:23AM (Israel Standard Time)  Israeli Election Day ...

Can Israel cast-off the rightwing shackles of Netanyahu - Lieberman? HOPE The present belligerent government suffers economically, and ...

Self-absorbed people in the USA have some sense of how Vietnamese and Venezuelan people, Haitians & Hondurans, comparatively are more p...

I don't like President Barack Obama... but there's much more to dislike about Mitt Romney, the arrogant Republican who lost the 201...