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       Sunday, November 13, 2011
Cain Plays God Card: God told me to run, "I was like Moses"   SHARE Is God a Republican? How come God apparently only talks to men like George Bush, Rick Perry and Herman Cain, who now claims that God told him to run for president? But for what exactly, God's comic relief?

       Thursday, October 27, 2011
Fearful Gadhafi Son Said To Seek Flight To Hague (Not Confirmed Yet)   SHARE This appears to be more than rumor, that Saif Gaddafi now thinks the safest place for himself is in a jail-cell in the Hague.

(1 comments)        Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A Rwandan's View: Gaddafi Is Gone; What Are Africans Mourning?   SHARE Rwandan journalist and investigative reporter Shyaka Kanuma, the Chief Editor of The Rwanda Focus, who has been following the antics and exploits of now-deceased Muammar Gaddafi for years, recounts some unpalatable truths about the Colonel.

       Sunday, October 23, 2011
Ugandan Woman Recalls Harrowing Tale Of Captivity, Criticizes Rush Limbaugh   SHARE Evelyn Apoko, who was kidnapped by the LRA as a child, criticizes Rush Limbaugh for white-washing the LRA.

       Sunday, October 23, 2011
Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand Captain Richie Mccaw Hails Triumphant All Blacks After Defeat Of France   SHARE The All-Blacks finally got past their jinx with France, barely, to claim the World Cup.

(1 comments)        Saturday, October 22, 2011
As Libya Takes Stock, Moammar Kadafi's Hidden Riches Astound   SHARE New estimates of the former leader's assets -- more than $200 billion -- are called 'staggering.' If they prove true, he would rank among the world's most rapacious leaders.

       Thursday, October 20, 2011
Breaking:News Reports that Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte has Finally Fallen   SHARE From Al Jazeera: Libyan National Transitional Council fighters say they have captured the last positions held by Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists in the deposed leader's hometown of Sirte. "Sirte has been liberated. There are no Gaddafi forces any more," Colonel Yunus Al Abdali, head of operations in the eastern half of the city, said on Thursday. "We are now chasing his fighters who are trying to run away."

       Tuesday, October 18, 2011
U.N. Report: Iran secretly executing hundreds of prisoners   SHARE UNITED NATIONS -- Iran's authoritarian regime has been secretly executing hundreds of prisoners, according to a new UN report detailing growing rights abuses in the Islamic republic. The mysterious executions at Vakilabad prison in Mashhad in eastern Iran were highlighted in a report compiled by Ahmed Shaheed, the new UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran.

(2 comments)        Monday, October 17, 2011
Gaddafi Stronghold Bani Walid Falls   SHARE Fighters belonging to Libya's ruling National Transitional Council have captured the town of Bani Walid, one of two last remaining strongholds of the country's deposed leader, Muammar Gaddafi. NTC military commanders said on Monday that they were encountering pockets of resistance in the town, located about 170km southeast of Tripoli. But they said they had claimed about 95 per cent of it. "We are very much in the centre of Bani Walid. They [Libyan fighters] came through here just over an hour ago and they are saying this is an almost complete liberation of the town," Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reported from inside Bani Walid.

       Sunday, October 16, 2011
Wall Street protesters march to Times Square   SHARE In its biggest day yet, thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in Times Square on Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations backing their month-long campaign against economic inequality.

       Sunday, October 16, 2011
Somalia's children dying in record numbers   SHARE Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, is overrun by the number of people seeking food as a result of famine and drought. The UN estimates there are just under half a million people now housed in the temporary plastic-covered shelters that pack the city. Although there is international support to tackle conditions, it is failing to stem the number of children who are dying. The UN says that in Mogadishu alone, fifteen children out of every 10,000 die each day, the highest rate in the country. And this is only expected to get worse. Peter Greste reports from Mogadishu in an Al Jazeera exclusive.

(1 comments)        Sunday, October 16, 2011
"Mayor Bloomberg's" Occupy Wall Street TV Address   SHARE With New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's well known frustration of Occupy Wall Street, SNL decided that a sketch of the billionaire's feelings should go live on Saturday Night.

       Saturday, October 15, 2011
Photo of the Week   SHARE How to prove that a corporation is a person. This post puts it in a nutshell.

       Friday, October 14, 2011
Labor Unshackled in Libya: Victory for striking oil workers   SHARE Under Gaddafi, labor strikes were illegal and independent labor unions outlawed. There was only one state controlled union completely under the dictates of the government. Now for the first time in decades, unions are free to organize and workers free to strike, and the first to flex their muscles have been oil field workers.

(10 comments)        Thursday, October 13, 2011
Libya: Gaddafi's Hometown Sirte Is At The Mercy Of Revolutionaries   SHARE Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's home town is now at the mercy of the revolutionaries as they tighten their control of Sirte. The streets are not secure but they are owned by fighters loyal to the interim government. There may be a few loyalists still alive but most have fled or been blasted into submission.

       Thursday, October 13, 2011
Libyans find voice in new era of press freedom   SHARE While In America the free press is starving to death as newspapers go out of business left and right, or are bought out by corporate monoliths, the opposite is now happening in Libya. Before the start of Libya's civil war, you could count the number of newspapers in the country on one hand and all were heavily controlled by the government. Now there are 120 independent newspapers in the city of Benghazi alone, according to local journalists.

       Thursday, October 13, 2011
One Libyan who is Confronting the Chaos in Libya's Prisons   SHARE Meet Taher Husnein, a 50 year old Libyan revolutionary who, despite the charged atmosphere of revolutionary upheaval, is determined to put an end to vendettas, vengeance and abuse in Tripoli's prisons currently teeming with POWs and suspected Gaddafi loyalists.

(1 comments)        Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Angelina Jolie Visits Libya as UN Ambassador   SHARE United Nations Goodwill ambassador and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, arrived in Libya on Tuesday to visit the embattled city of Misrata, as well as express her solidarity with the nation. Jolie joined Libyans to witness the country's new chapter after the ousting of Muammar Qaddafi.

       Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Israel and Hamas agree to a prisoner swap deal that will see Shalit freed   SHARE Israel has agreed a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas to secure the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who will be "coming home" in a few days, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday. "We have concluded arduous negotiations with Hamas to release Gilad Shalit. He will be coming home in the next few days," the prime minister said in a nationally televised address. Shortly after the announcement tens of thousands of people flooded into the streets of northern Gaza to celebrate the deal that will see Palestinian detainees freed in exchange for Shalit.

(7 comments)        Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Surrealism in Sirte: Libyan soldier strums on guitar as battle rages   SHARE In Sirte, where Libyans versus Libyans have been locked in a Battle Royale for this symbolic prize city for weeks, surrealism seems to be the order of the day.

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