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Los científicos sociales defienden la idea de la "supervivencia del más bondadoso".‘
By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations BERKELEY — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest…
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¿Está Estados Unidos a punto de recuperar el control de América Latina mediante guerras indirectas regionales a través de Colombia?
The Summit of the Americas, Drug Legalization, ‘Asymmetric’ Relations & Security Cooperation by ANNIE BIRD The Summits of the Americas began in 1994 as forums to promote free trade. In 2009 the Summit’s focus shifted to demands for the inclusion of Cuba in regional political bodies and the end of the U.S. economic embargo, a…
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Michael Parenti: Agresión y propaganda de Estados Unidos contra Cuba
Why the unrelieved U.S. antagonism toward Cuba? by Michael Parenti In recent times, U.S.-Cuban relations have gone from bad to worse. Under the Administration of George W. Bush, the U.S. boycott has been more stringently imposed. Anti-government agitation within Cuba has been financed and directed by the U.S. interest section in Havana. State Department restrictions…
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Las elecciones egipcias se ven sumidas en el caos tras los fallos judiciales que fortalecen a las fuerzas armadas.
By CHARLES LEVINSON And MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—Egypt’s 16-month transition toward democracy was thrust into turmoil just two days before the country’s historic presidential election, as the country’s highest court dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament and its top generals took over legislative powers. Egypt’s highest court stunned the country with two rulings Thursday. One effectively dissolves both…
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El Tribunal Supremo de Egipto pide la disolución del Parlamento.
Egypt’s supreme court has caused widespread alarm by calling for the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and for fresh elections. Two days before Egyptians choose a new president, it has declared last year’s parliamentary vote unconstitutional. Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Mursi said the decision “must be respected”. But other political figures have…
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Estados Unidos amplía la "guerra encubierta" en África con aviones espía, según un informe.
By Dylan Stableford The U.S. military is expanding its intelligence-gathering operations across Africa, the Washington Post reports, mainly using small, unarmed planes “equipped with hidden sensors that can record full-motion video, track infrared heat patterns, and vacuum up radio and cellphone signals”—part of a “shadow war” against al-Qaida and other militants. Approximately a dozen secret…
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Un tribunal tunecino condena a Ben Ali a cadena perpetua.
A Tunisian military court has sentenced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to life in prison for the killings of protesters during last year’s popular revolution that ousted the longtime dictator. The verdict was handed down in absentia on Wednesday after a six-month trial at the military court in the northwestern city of El Kef, about…
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Estados Unidos desplegará más de 3.000 soldados en África.
All of those troops leaving Afghanistan during the next two years will have to go somewhere, right? The US Army will deploy thousands of soldiers across the continent of Africa during 2013. The Army Times confirms that the US military gave the go-ahead for the mass deployment last month and that roughly 3,000 soldiers will…
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Cientos de personas protestan en la batalla contra la inmigración ilegal en Israel.
By Dan Morgan and Guy Azriel Jerusalem (CNN) — Several hundred Sudanese immigrants rallied Sunday on the streets of Tel Aviv, demanding refugee status. Marching towards the United Nations Refugee Agency building, the demonstrators held up banners reading “We are not infiltrators, we are refugees,” “We are human beings too” and “We are refugees, we…
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Los rebeldes sirios pretenden usar armas químicas y culpan a Damasco, según un informe.
The armed Syrian opposition has got their hands on chemical weapons, which they acquired from Libya, a media report claims. They allegedly plan to use it against civilians and pin the atrocity on the Bashar al-Assad regime. The report by DamPress claims the opposition group in possession of the weapons is being trained in its…
