If I Were President: My Haitian Experience
Columbia Records will release If I Were President: My Haitian Experience, the new six-song EP from Wyclef Jean, available on the iTunes store today (Dec. 7). It includes “Election Time,”…
Wikileaks: All Leaks are being Plugged
As the U.S. government-led covert attacks continue on the whistleblowing site Wikileaks, its major corporate partners have cut off the site’s oxygen. While it’s still breathing on temporary support, leading…
Wikileaks Leaks Out Secret US Embassy Cables
By Rakesh Raman Wikileaks, a not-for-profit media organisation that releases classified information for public consumption, began on Sunday Nov. 28 publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables (communications). It is…
Human Rights Outfit Welcomes Suu Kyi Release
Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist organization Amnesty International has welcomed the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a prisoner of conscience, from house arrest in Myanmar (formerly called Burma). Suu…
Obama Ignored Outcries of Sikh Widows: Statement
By Rakesh Raman President and Michelle Obama visited India on an economic mission and despite outcries from human rights organizations the President did not address India’s terrible human rights record…
President Obama Honors NASA for Miners’ Rescue
President Barack Obama welcomed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and a NASA team that assisted trapped Chilean miners to the Oval Office on Thursday, Oct. 28, for a ceremony that recognized…