Displaced villagers say Sudanese army has launched deliberate campaign to bomb and starve civilians in disputed region. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2012/03/201231825349199317.html
Rick Santorum is claiming that if he wins the Illinois primary, he has virtually won the Republican nomination. It seems an appropriate time for this golden oldie: The right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their…
Eleven troops are killed when their unit was hit in Arauca department, in the east of the country from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/03/201231821518813788.html
Libya formally requests that Mauritania hand over Col Gaddafi’s former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi, also sought by the International Criminal Court and France. from (author unknown) via http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-17419575
A federal judge grants a request from prosecutors, barring 17 executives from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/03/201231815012180836.html
Tens of thousands flock to Cairo’s main cathedral after the pontiff who led their church for 40 years dies at 88. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/03/2012317235857782973.html
Why I’m risking my life to treat Syrian protesters from (author unknown) via http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/magazine-17398886
Al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen builds support from (author unknown) via http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-17402856
Muammar Gaddafi’s eldest son is due to be taken to a prison within a prison in the suburbs of Tripoli to await trial Behind a grey forbidding wall on the outskirts of the Libyan capital sits a secret prison constructed to hold just one prisoner – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. The…
Too many of our cultural and educational institutions have been quiescent in suppressing uncomfortable truths The language of privatisation this government parrots so enthusiastically is a language of emancipation. In the “free” market, hidebound public institutions escape the “shackles” of the state. They “tear up” red tape. They “diversify”, “innovate”…