Day: January 30, 2008

Emergency response stymied by language problems The November 7 (2007) San Francisco Bay oil spill was worsened by a language barrier between the Chinese crew of the ship responsible, the M/V Cosco Busan, and first […]

Gaddafi’s “United States of Africa” Muammar Gaddafi the Arab nationalist “Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution” of Libya has threatened to abandon his political connections to Africa in favor of an orientation to the […]

Putin says outsiders plan to interfere in March election Vladimir Putin, the combative President of Russia, has warned about foreign attempts to hijack presidential elections slated for March 3, warning of “attempts to interfere with […]

“There’s no denying it: neocons tend to be Jewish.” by Edmund Connelly “It is anything but an anti-Semitic canard to label neoconservatism a largely Jewish phenomenon. Neoconservatism is ‘ineluctably Jewish.’” Jacob Heilbrun, quoted in Evan […]

Former member of Mexican gov’t heads McCain’s Hispanic outreach http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3170 Chad Groening OneNewsNow The Center for Immigration Studies is outraged that GOP presidential hopeful John McCain has appointed someone who worked with the Mexican government […]

Empire’s Allies in Serbia Falter   by Nebojsa Malic Famous anarchist Emma Goldman once said, “If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.” Following last weekend’s presidential elections in Serbia, the party of the […]

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=710 From the desk of Tiberge The fallout from Jacques Attali’s report continues to rain down. The report is a staggering array of 316 proposals to free up the French economy. One topic – education […]

£350m a Year By News Team The NHS is spending £350m a year to provide maternity services for foreign-born mothers, £200m more than a decade ago. Immigration has raised the birth rate so fast that […]