July 31, 2009 Citigroup, one of the biggest recipients of US government bailout money, gave employees $5.3bn in bonuses for 2008, New York’s attorney general said today in a report detailing the payouts by nine big banks. The report from attorney general Andrew Cuomo’s office focused on 2008 bonuses paid to the initial nine banks that received [...]

Canada, reported Notimex, was the only country in the hemisphere that did not explicitly call for Zelaya's return to power

Irónico y corrosivo documental de Erik Gandini, realizado por la productora independiente ALMO de Estocolmo. Parte de un análisis del papel del consumidor actual. Una representación perfecta y excepcional de la cultura antisistema. Entre una edición frenética, un constante acompañamiento musical y un inagotable juego de montajes audiovisuales, Surplus logra poner en evidencia las contradicciones [...]

Business As Usual: Vedanta Mine Plans Threaten India’s Poorest. An ecosystem destroyed. A way of life gone forever. Private profit and public pain.

Se hace necesario conformar una estrategia que, desde lo político y lo social, se contraponga a la amenaza del uso imperial de las nanotecnologías

Population growth, pollution and invasive species are having a disastrous effect on species in the southern hemisphere, a major review by conservationists warns

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]

The Way to Power by Dr.Bouthaina Shaaban July 29, 2009 After the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) published its report on the Arab world, with one of its shocking conclusions being that half of the world’s refugees are Arabs, The Economist published in its latest edition July 24-30  a 14-page report about the Arab world with an editorial [...]

por Manuel Bermúdez 29 de julio, 2009 El escritor hondureño Julio Escoto participó en el II Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales realizado del 22 al 24 de julio, en San José, Costa Rica, luego de que la crisis política y social desatada en Honduras tras el golpe de estado del 28 de junio impidió que se llevara [...]

by Robert Kuttner July 26, 2009 The New York Times recently reported that the latest scheme–or scam–on Wall Street is something called High Frequency Trading. Very sophisticated financial firms, such as Goldman Sachs, are tipped off by the New York Stock Exchange’s own computers to pending buy and sell orders. Armed with ultra sophisticated computer algorithms, the [...]