A friend of mine just went to Moscow to pick up her son, who went there to study and was beaten by skinheads. This is not the first time. Here is an article from last September. I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg ( Read more... )

A friend of mine just went to Moscow to pick up her son, who went there to study and was beaten by skinheads. This is not the first time. Here is an article from last September. I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg ( Read more... )

I think relating through song and idealism is a lot more human than crunching numbers and worrying about one’s bank account. The song I have been playing over and over since Election Day is “African Reggae” by Nina Hagen ( Read more... )

Zorikto DORZHIEV was born in 1976 into an artists' family, in Ulan Ude (Siberia ( Read more... )

Here's my response to a question about (Republican vice-presidential candidate) Palin and her compassionate policy which includes banning abortion ( Read more... )

During the first days of August, in the city of Ulyanovsk, there was a whole series of attacks against local residents. People were beaten and kicked, and received multiple knife wounds. Authorities are not hiding that these crimes were committed by local skinheads, including the August 10 murder of 34-year old Cameroonian Etizok Idobeh Ernest, a ( Read more... )

The Ngarrindjeri intend to undertake civil proceedings against the Crown in the High Court in London, including for such equitable relief by way of orders in the nature of a declaration of title to land, and compensation for moneys had and received on the sale of Ngarrindjeri land from one (1) shilling per acre from 1837, as is actionable ( Read more... )

Lakota withdraw from treaties, declare independence from U.S ( Read more... )

Here's a link to an article in Russian about a recent festival of Mongolian culture in India. If you can't read Russian, you can look at the pictures, and ask me for a translation ( Read more... )

One-two punch

First, the Oil spill in San Francisco Bay

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-spill13nov13,1,5989374.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage


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