Daily Archives: Saturday, May 26, 2012

... China is still a developing country because if you look at wealth per capita, it barely makes the world's top 100. More than 100 million Chinese live below the poverty line, which Beijing has defined as about $1 a … Continue reading →

Imagine if rape had been a capital crime. ... a teenage girl he had known since childhood claimed he had raped her. He was arrested and, on advice of counsel, pleaded no contest to rape and an enhancement of kidnapping … Continue reading →

Here are the fundamental questions about Romney and Bain: Did they help middle class, working families; did they create hundreds of thousands of jobs in America; was this American business at its best? The answer, in my view, is clearly no. … Continue reading →

“This is the first time since 1934,” when Brazil passed its first legislative measure to protect forests, “that we have taken a step back,” said Tatiana de Carvalho, an Amazon campaigner at Sao Paulo-based Greenpeace Brazil. via Amnesty for Amazon … Continue reading →

For those who joined the Labour party for its traditional and laudable social democratic values, many were left aghast that a Labour-led government could send our troops into an illegal war in the face of a UN mandate, scrap the … Continue reading →