New Brunswick Mounted Police deploy rubber bullets and tear gas, arrest 40 protesters for blockading highway.
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18 Oct 2013
Canadian Police Use Military Tactics to Disperse Indigenous Anti-Fracking Blockade
16 Oct 2013
Ecuador Approves Oil Drilling in Amazon Rain Forest
On October 3rd 2013, Ecuador's National Assembly authorized the project to drill for oil in the Yasuní National forest, which is a biosphere reserve and home of endemic tribes and unique animal species.
The Real News
14 Oct 2013
Razzia in Moscow
Moscow police rounded up and arrested more than a thousand migrant workers at a vegetable warehouse on Monday morning, hours after hundreds of ultranationalists clashed with riot police. The rioters had overturned cars and raided a shopping centre used by migrants after the murder of an ethnic Russian was blamed on a man from the Caucasus. Police arrested more than 1,200 people in what was called a "pre-emptive raid" on the warehouse where the rioters believed the killer worked, Russian news agencies reported.
Sunday's rioting in the southern Biryulyovo district of Moscow, which escalated after hundreds gathered where Egor Shcherbakov, 25, was murdered last week, marked the capital's worst nationalist unrest in three years.
13 Oct 2013
Didn't We Fix Famine?
Eddie Izzard travels to Africa to explore and present the continuing problems that keep fighting hunger a daily struggle in that part of the world.
12 Oct 2013
Party in Pyongyang
North Korea's state-run television KRT on Friday (October 11) broadcast a video of Kim Jong-un watching a concert held to celebrate the anniversary of the communist nation's founding.
Video footage showed Kim and his wife Ri Sol Ju watching a concert entitled "Long Live the Workers' Party of Korea" by the Moranbong Band and the State Merited Chorus which was held to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK).
Malala tells Obama: end drone strikes
US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle welcomed Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai to the Oval Office on Friday. Mr Obama met with Malala on the same day the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The Pakistani teen had been considered a front-runner for the prize and was in Washington to speak at two events. The teen said in a statement after the meeting that she was honored to meet with the president, who is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
"I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees. I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact," she said.
11 Oct 2013
Vogue's Creepy Google Glass Photoshoot
Vogue Magazine recently published a photoshoot set in a dystopian futuristic landscape to promote Google Glass and sell the trendies on transhumanism.
The creepy images send the message that anyone who refuses to completely sacrifice privacy and embrace Google Glass is obsolete and cannot be part of a future world run by vapid, emotionless authoritarians who behave more like robots than humans.
Free Jeremy Hammond
Jeremy Hammond is a gifted young computer programmer facing a decade in prison. His crime? Leaking information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, information which revealed that Stratfor had been spying on human rights activists at the behest of corporations and the U.S. government.
In March 2012 Jeremy was arrested in his Chicago home and charged with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same legislation used to prosecute Aaron Swartz. This outdated law, written before the Internet was even created, gives absurdly broad powers to corporations and prosecutors to criminalize an array of online activity and pursue extreme and disproportionate sentences. By contrast, Jeremy’s co-defendants in Ireland will not be prosecuted and in the U.K. none will spend more than 16 months in prison.
In a non-cooperating plea deal, Jeremy pled guilty to one count of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. His sentencing will be held on November 15, 2013 at 10 AM at Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Since March of 2012, Jeremy has been denied bail, cut off from his family, and held in solitary confinement– treatment normally reserved for the most egregious offenses. He did nothing for personal gain and everything in hopes of making the world a better place. He is facing a maximum sentence of ten years, but the minimum is zero. It’s time for him to come home.
UN Speech by President of Uruguay
Jose Pepe Mujica,President of Uruguay in UN Speech with English Translation.
"We have sacrificed the old immaterial Gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the 'Market-God'. This God organizes our Economy, our Politics, our Habits, our Lives and even provides us with Rates and Credit Cards and gives us the appearance of happiness. It seems that we have been born only to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration and we suffer from poverty, and we are marginalized.
9 Oct 2013
Japan's Triple Meltdown
Each week Fairewinds receives many questions about the ongoing tragedy unfolding in Japan as a result of the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Join us as Fairewinds' Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen highlights the many problems facing Japan as he takes you on a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi site by combining satellite video, animated graphics and photos to create a comprehensive and easy to follow video tour.
7 Oct 2013
4 Oct 2013
Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden wants to put Snowden on kill list
CIA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden should be on a hit list rather than a list of names recently nominated for a Prize for Freedom of Thought. That was a joke made by former NSA director Michael Hayden. But his humor has sparked a wave of criticism. He told RT's Marina Portnaya he was misunderstood. RT
2 Oct 2013
26 Sept 2013
Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'
Dozens of Nepalese migrant labourers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and thousands more are enduring appalling labour abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising serious questions about Qatar's preparations to host the 2022 World Cup.
This summer, Nepalese workers died at a rate of almost one a day in Qatar, many of them young men who had sudden heart attacks. The investigation found evidence to suggest that thousands of Nepalese, who make up the single largest group of labourers in Qatar, face exploitation and abuses that amount to modern-day slavery, as defined by the International Labour Organisation, during a building binge paving the way for 2022.
According to documents obtained from the Nepalese embassy in Doha, at least 44 workers died between 4 June and 8 August. More than half died of heart attacks, heart failure or workplace accidents.
24 Sept 2013
Pope Francis 'Excommunicates Priest Over Views On Gay Marriage And Women'
An Australian priest has been excommunicated by the Vatican over his liberal views, according to reports. Greg Reynolds has reportedly been both defrocked and excommunicated over his support for women priests and the gay community. The excommunication document - written in Latin and giving no reason - came directly from Vatican under the authority of Pope Francis, who just recently said that the Church focuses too much on gays and abortion, International Business Times reported.
20 Sept 2013
18 Sept 2013
Is war biggest crime committed in Syria against Syrians?
As the UN Independent Commission on Syria releases yet another report, one thing is painfully clear: both sides have committed countless war crimes and atrocities, with no end in sight to the hostilities. How independent and impartial can the Commission be, with so much at stake? Vitit Muntarbhorn, one of the authors of the report, joins Oksana in this special edition of Worlds Apart.
8 Sept 2013
1 Sept 2013
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