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POPSFormer rulers, father and son on trial Emmanuel — also known as Chuckie Jr. — was born in Boston and spent most of his life in Orlando, Fla. before moving to Liberia when he was a teenager to be with his father. There, prosecutors say, he led a notorious unit blamed for silencing Taylor's critics. Taylor meanwhile is charged with orchestrating atrocities by rebels in Sierra Leone from 1996-2002 while he was ruling Liberia. "Many of the people who commit these crimes perceive that if they win they're in the presidential palace for life, if they lose they'll find exile somewhere and live comfortably," Rapp said. "We really want to eliminate that perception that you can get away with these things."
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POPSThe Population of China’s Provinces Compared # Zhejiang (47 million) South Africa # Yunnan (44 million) Colombia # Jiangxi (43 million) Tanzania # Liaoning (42 million) Argentina # Guizhou (39 million) Sudan # Heilongjiang (38 million) Poland # Shaanxi (37 million) Kenya # Fujian (35 million) Algeria # Shanxi (33 million) Canada # Chongqing (31 million) Morocco # Jilin (27 million) Afghanistan # Gansu (26 million) Saudi Arabia # Inner Mongolia (24 million) North Korea # Taiwan (23 million) Yemen # Xinjiang (20 million) Madagascar # Shanghai (18 million) Cameroon # Beijing (16 million) Angola # Tianjin (12 million) Cuba # Hainan (8 million) Austria # Hong Kong (7 million) El Salvador # Ningxia (6 million) Sierra Leone # Qinghai (5 million) Slovakia # Tibet (3 million) Jamaica # Macau (0,5 million) Cape Verde
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POPSUnited Nations Reform: Fact or Fiction? The United Nations promised international cooperation on eliminating the major threats to peace and security and the most serious impediments to the protection of human rights and human dignity. Sixty years after the UN officially came into existence, 24 October 1945, the trail is one of broken promises. While important successes have marked some of its paths, the international machine has been hijacked and manipulated to subvert the very causes it was intended to promote. A number of factors have forced UN reform to move much higher up on the global agenda than ever before: the exposure of the billion-dollar UN-run Oil-for-food scam, peacekeeper-rapists, and paralysis in the face of genocide in Sudan.However, in an environment where there is little, if any, consensus on the most critical issues of our time, the real game is one of finger-pointing. Undoubtedly, the "blame America first" will continue. http://www.eyeontheun.org/un-reform.asp
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POPSWar in the Comix Themes covered include; first-hand & factual accounts from civilians and soldiers, the global arms trade & illegal arms deals, the effects of PTSD and life after conflict, media representation, child soldiers in Sierra Leone & Uganda, Torture Victims in Guantanamo Bay, The Occupation, Genocide and Human Rights abuses in Tibet, propaganda, satire, companies who profit from bloodshed, global and covert wars, asylum seekers/ refugees, community conflict, anti-war, peace and alternatives to conflict and much more
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POPSThis Day in History - July 2-3 July 3, 1835 Children employed in the silk mills at Paterson, New Jersey, went on strike for an eleven-hour workday and a six-day workweek. With the help of adults, they won a compromise settlement of a 69-hour week.
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POPSTell world leaders to ACT on the food crisis PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION "The head of the UN, Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, will receive our petition at the summit at 9:30AM on Wednesday morning. This is a huge opportunity for our voice to reach our leaders directly, but we need half a million voices heard. Sign the petition below, and watch the video appeal at right from the Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, one of the world's worst hit nations. "
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POPSBling my ass. Is there blood on your hands? Follow the money fool, stop believing the bullshit they love to spoon feed. Remember, it's about class...don't buy into the lie.. Please go watch the video and while you're there support guerrilla funk.
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POPS"The Triumph Of American Policy" says Bob Geldof, Irish Rocker
But it would be unrealistic to have expected otherwise. This is a national press corps that seems to notice homelessness and poverty only when a Republican is in the White House, and which itself votes heavily Democratic. African-Americans give little support to Bush — he got 11% of their vote in 2004 after taking 8% in 2000. Black leaders — such as NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, who has called Bush a liar, compared his judicial nominees to the Taliban and equated the GOP to Nazis — continue their shrill verbal assaults on the man. Yet under Bush, the U.S. has boosted development and humanitarian aid to Africa from $1.4 billion in his first year in office to $4 billion a year today. He's also sought $30 billion to fight AIDS. Trade — far more efficient than aid — between our country and Africa has more than doubled during his terms. This administration has also actively sought to stop the genocide in Darfur and has led in attempts to end wars in Sierra Leone, Sudan and Congo
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POPSSave Al Bangura Al has just lost his appeal and is due to be deported back to Sierra Leone where he faces real danger. He has a wife and child here and is a regular player with The Hornets (Watford FC). This site contains a petition. If you google his name and think it a worthy cause, please sign. Thanks.
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POPSIraq: Another Dirty Secret - South African Mercenaries, former White Apartheid era Veterans
More: The root of that distrust dates to the mid-1990s, when thousands of white officers left South Africa's security agencies during the transition from apartheid to majority black rule. Unemployed soldiers and police joined private security companies that got embroiled in African wars from Angola to Sierra Leone. A wheelchair-bound man who owns an SUV with vanity plates that proclaim "Baghdad," Brink lost a leg and fingers in 2005 to a mine that exploded under his armored vehicle in Baqouba, a hotbed of the Iraqi insurgency. Since returning to South Africa, he has been encouraging wounded colleagues to apply for U.S. worker's compensation under the U.S. Defense Base Act, which applies to all workers, American or foreign, who are subcontracted in war zones by Washington Brink was advising them on how to file for U.S. worker's compensation. I'll buy a farm if I can collect on my claim, said Gouws, 45, But I don't recommend this method of getting a farm to anyone else
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