By Eric Walberg Food protests and riots have swept more than 20 countries in the past few months. On 2 April, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a meeting in Washington that there are 33 countries where price hikes could cause widespread social unrest. The UN World Food Programme called the crisis the silent tsunami, [...]

1. Energy crisis: Turning-point of humanity : By Rudo de Ruijter, Independent Researcher 2. Your Brain Lies to You : By Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt, The NYT 3. Karzai is telling half-truth : By Jehangir Khattak, The Dawn 4. The grim dangers in FATA : By Rahimullah Yusufzai, The News 5. What Obama should [...]

By Jason Miller Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are using against us, it can also be our salvation. We are facing swarms [...]

By James Petras All the major international banks (IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asia Development Bank etc), all the major financial newspapers and mass media have been forced to recognize that there is a major food crisis, that hundreds of millions of people face hunger, malnutrition and outright starvation. ‘The world’s poor countries will [...]