Italy’s highest criminal court sustained a lower court’s guilty verdict in the case of 23 Americans connected to the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. The CIA agents responsible for the kidnapping of Egyptian terror suspect cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr from a Milan street in 2003 may face extradition. Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr was taken to […]
Read MoreThe Guardian UK’s Five Talking Points video from London’s 2012 Fashion Week. [The Guardian]
Read MoreThis documentary video takes the viewer inside of one of the world’s most repressive regimes. While internationally North Korea is known for bringing relations between it and the South to the brink, among human rights workers it is the most brutal regime on Earth. Individuality, freedom of expression, religion, or any basic human rights are […]
Read MoreMorgan Page is an American progressive house and electro house DJ from Los Angeles. [Vevo]
Read MoreTwo of the defense industry’s largest European concerns, EADS (owner of Airbus) and BAE are rumored to be in discussions about a merger between the two companies. Such a merger would create a defense firm larger than American companies Boeing and Lockheed but the proposal to unite the two is fraught with political concerns on […]
Read MoreCaracas, the capital of Venezuela, is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Dozens are murdered every week and numbers are typically higher than in Baghdad, Iraq with less than 7% of cases going to court. The Guardian‘s Sean Smith reports from a hospital in Caracas in the above documentary.
Read MoreThe Hurun Rich List in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) reports that the number of Chinese billionaires has decreased this year with only 251 people making the list while 271 were on it last year. In 2006 only 15 billionaires were on the Hurun Rich List but this year marks the first time in […]
Read MoreTrack Number 8 from Dave Matthews Band’s newest album, Away From the World. Click here to listen to the song on iTunes.
Read MoreLibyan leader Mohammed Magarief vows to disband Libya’s independent militia’s in an effort to centralize Tripoli’s power according to a report from the BBC.
Read MoreRarely does a defector from the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea return to the North, but the case of Pak Jong Suk is a curious one: Having defected from the North in 2006, Pak has returned from South Korea to the DPRK a propaganda star for the regime. The 66-year old returnee is described […]
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