Barack Obama’s administration heads an historic attack on public education with hundreds of schools having closed and hundreds of thousands of teachers losing their jobs over the last four years. Luis Beatón This could seem an exaggeration, but statistics from all sorts of sources show that the United […]
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Green Nuclear Power… So why not use Thorium?
With two nuclear crises threatening world peace at the moment, it is time to look seriously at the history of nuclear power. . Graham Douglas . For some time now the opposition to nuclear power has diminished as it has gradually been accepted that it is the only large scale […]
Unemployment becomes chronic in the US
An overshadowed statistic in federal data, long-term unemployment (LTU) is one of the most poignant social irregularities for millions of American families, as well as an example of Washington’s disrespect for human rights. Jorge V. Jaime People looking for work for six months or more join another 120,000 […]
Cleaners, without rights to get ill
They have few holidays, they don’t have a worthy pension and they are forced to work even when they are ill. This is a situation that hundreds of subcontracted workers suffer at the University of London. Text and photos by Olga Briasco Recently a roar of drums and […]
The US blockade on Cuba: unnecessary and inhumane
The measure, taken on political and economic grounds and imposed by the US Government on Cuba over half a century ago, has incurred losses of $1 trillion on Cuba and ‘inestimable’ humanitarian damages. – Waldo Mendiluza – According to Cuban Foreign Secretary Bruno Rodríguez, this cost of the full economic […]