Five Stupid Things About The War On Drugs
Posted on March 6, 2013 in Videos
A 40-year waste of time, resources and efforts with racial undertones? Hopefully the end is finally nigh.
The Best–And Most Ridiculous–Things To Escape Hugo Chavez’s Mouth
Posted on March 6, 2013 in Quotes
The Venezuelan president hasn’t even been dead for 24 hours and he’s already caused quite the international frenzy. Pundits are already clamoring at defining Chavez’s legacy the best: did he help lift up the poor and inject valuable, vociferous criticisms of US foreign policy into the consciousness of the masses, or was he just another power-hungry politician espousing a failed ideology? People will probably continue arguing back and forth for the next several days–at which point Barack Obama’s name will inevitably be thrown into the chorus of failed socialist ‘dictators’–but no matter where you stand, there’s one thing on which we can all agree: Hugo Chavez has said some damn memorable things.
FOX News Battles Climate Change
Posted on March 6, 2013 in Political Cartoons
They run such a passionate campaign against climate change. Too bad it’s all full of shit.
Cuba Creates Four Cancer Vaccines, Completely Ignored By Media
Posted on March 6, 2013 in Articles
The Article: Cuba creates four anti-cancer vaccines, media ignores it by Jo MacLean in The Green Left.
The Text: That Cuba has already developed four vaccines or inoculations against different types of cancer is without doubt important news for humanity. The World Health Organisation says each year about 8 million people die from this illness.
However, the international mainstream media have almost totally ignored this news.
Last year, Cuba patented the first therapeutic vaccine against advanced lung cancer in the world, called CIMAVAX-EGF. In January, the second one, called Racotumomab, was announced.
Clinical testing in 86 countries shows that these vaccines, although they don’t cure the illness, do managed to reduce tumours and allow for a stable stage of the illness, thereby increasing hope and quality of life.
Robert Reich On The Limits Of American Inequality
Posted on March 5, 2013 in Videos
The former secretary of labor turns conventional wisdom regarding supply-side economics on its head in his evaluation of economic inequality in America.
