Month: January 2015

  • Integrity in US media

    Integrity in US media

    Carl Sagan once said “The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media”, even going on to say it presented: “a kind of celebration of ignorance”. The problem is that much of what is presented in the mainstream US media today is short, bright […]

  • CIA black sites: offshore interrogation centres and an increasingly aggressive CIA

    CIA black sites: offshore interrogation centres and an increasingly aggressive CIA

    With details of the newly published report by the US Senate coming out, this 4 year investigation is shining light on some of the questionable interrogation techniques and the medical staff involved in the “safe keeping” of the detainees of the US Government. Whilst much of the attention has been focused on the legality and […]

  • World Hunger: Crisis and a plan of action

    World Hunger: Crisis and a plan of action

    According to UN food and agriculture agencies, the number of hungry people in the world has fallen over the past decade. However, the number still stands at 805 million, a figure representing one ninth of the global population. Some countries have been able to improve their domestic figures, but the number of undernourished people is […]