Since the Ebola disease was first detected in West Africa in March, it has claimed in excess of 4,800 lives (and rising), among them over 120 frontline medical staff tending to the ill. Double that number are infected. Thousands of children have been orphaned. The virus is communicated through direct contact with bodily fluids such as blood, saliva and possibly sweat; and excreta (faeces and
US President Barack Obama’s speech on 10 September in which he vowed to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the forces of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ signals a fresh imperialist military offensive in the Middle East. Triggered by the ‘Islamic State’ (IS) rapid conquest of territory in recent months, including significant oil fields and refineries in Eastern Syria and Northern Iraq, capture ...
US President Barack Obama’s speech on 10 September in which he vowed to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the forces of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ signals a fresh imperialist military offensive in the Middle East. Triggered by the ‘Islamic State’ (IS) rapid conquest of territory in recent months, including significant oil fields in Eastern Syria and Northern Iraq, and beheadings of ...
Colombo -- 7 March 2012 Tens of thousands took to the streets of Colombo and other cities and towns, in the last week of February and into the following week. There were two oddities about these demonstrations of “peoples’ power” – as some government politicians described them. First, no-one was shot dead, no-one was tear-gassed, no court orders were taken to ban public protests