Congress authorises expansion of robotic warfare technology favoured by Obama
Washington has agreed in principle to install weapons on Italy’s
fleet of unmanned aircraft in spite of concerns about a new arms race
among nations to acquire and deploy robot drones capable of deadly
force.
As President Barack Obama has come to rely more and more on armed
drones to erase terror threats in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and
protect troops in Afghanistan, other nations have begun more urgently to
covet them. Today, Britain is the only country using drones loaded with
US-provided weaponry.
Green Veneer
WWF Helps Industry More than Environment
The WWF is the most powerful environmental organization in the
world and campaigns internationally on issues such as saving tigers and
rain forests. But a closer look at its work leads to a sobering
conclusion: Many of its activities benefit industry more than the
environment or endangered species.
Want to protect the rainforest? All it takes is €5 ($6.30) to get
started. Save the gorillas? Three euros and you're in. You can even do
your part for nature with only 50 cents -- as long as you entrust it to
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which is still known by its
original name of the World Wildlife Fund in the United States and
Canada.
Last year, the WWF, together with German retail group Rewe, sold almost
2 million collectors' albums. In only six weeks, the program raised
€875,088 ($1.1 million), which Rewe turned over to the WWF.
Bangkok's pop-star welcome for Aung San Suy Kyi
Lindsay Murdoch
May 30, 2012 - 1:49PM
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suy Kyi was jostled and pushed by excited well-wishers outside the Thai capital today.
Security officials were overwhelmed by a surging crowd of
mostly Burmese migrant workers on her first day in a foreign country in
24 years.
Ms Suu Kyi, 66, was visiting a market near Bangkok to see the working conditions of Burmese migrants.
Libya: Women's lib, yeah
Women in Libya are hoping to draft a constitution to show they can
be much more than just sexy bodyguards or accessories to murder.
“Women gave a lot of hard work to support the revolution, so why
not enter the government now?” asked Samira Karmusi, who is running with
the Justice and Construction Party.
The party brings together members of the Muslim Brotherhood with
other Islamists and independents. Like most emerging parties, it wants
to legislate in accordance with Sharia, or Islamic law.
Karmusi said the men in her party, most of them professionals and
some like her husband former political prisoners, welcome women on
board.
“We feel that we can do it, that we can make it,” she said.
Najia Gajem, a university lecturer who is running as an independent
candidate in the district of Ein Zara, says not all men are so
open-minded.
A day in the life of Caracas shortages
By
Miguel Octavio,
Guest blogger
On a recent visit to
Caracas,
it was Friday early evening after an intense week (as usual) there. I
decided to stay home, relax, watch a Red Sox game. I did need to get a
medicine, so I went home and waited for traffic to decrease, which
begins to happen around 7:30 p.m. It should only take ten minutes to go
to Locatel and get what I need. Then relax!
But it was not to be.
At the Locatel drugustore they were out not only of what I had the
prescription for, but also for the competing product. But they were very
helpful, told me that I could find the competing product in either
their Caricuao or Alto Prado store, a little bit far from where I stay
when I go to Caracas.
Chen Guangcheng, now in U.S., poised to play role in yet another abortion debate
Conservatives are seizing on the high-profile story of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist who
recently arrived
in the United States, hoping that the spotlight on his human rights
work will bolster their efforts to curb abortions domestically and in
China.
Antiabortion groups, including National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List, are highlighting
Chen’s work
exposing forced abortions and sterilizations in China in hopes that it
will help them with their current priority in the United States, passing
legislation banning abortions performed because of a child’s gender.
Chen’s plight also has led congressional Republicans to plan hearings
this summer on China’s one-child policy.
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