Global South

The Rohingya Genocide

By Simon Wood “The inaction of world leaders in the face of mass slaughter goes back well before the holocaust, and genocidal leaders have taken note” – Daniel Goldhagen Over the last century more than 100 million civilians have died in genocides. The Turks killed over a million Armenians during World War I. The Japanese, Communist China and the Nazis […]

The Bangladesh Factory Collapse, The Global Cheap Labor Economy, Wages at a Dollar a Day

More than 300 people are dead, mainly garment workers, and many more are injured following the collapse of the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh this week. The tragedy is one of the world’s worst industrial disasters, but it will not be the last, as global corporations constantly drive for greater profits through the exploitation of sweatshop labour by K. […]

The South also rises

It is not so far-fetched to imagine Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History succumbing to the temptation, and stressing that the time of the Global South has finally come by Pepe Escobar Oh yes, it will be a long, arduous and winding road. But would the Google/Facebook generation need only one textbook detailing the stuff of dreams, trials and tribulations of […]

Evidence Begins To Indicate Gary Webb Was Murdered

Webb Spoke Of Death Threats, ‘Government People’ Around His Home by Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson UPDATE: Only In Arkansas: Webb ‘Double Gunshot Wounds’ Explanation Defies Belief We will simply not let the issue drop. How on earth can somebody have two different gunshot wounds and their cause of death still be passed off as suicide? UPDATE: Coroner: Gary […]