Written for PeaceReporter By Alessandro Ursic With a gun in the house, you can defend yourself against intruders; so believe many Americans. But lean times shift priorities, and making it to the end of the month becomes the most important thing. When an offer comes for food in exchange for a handgun, lots of people won't let the chance slip by. That's what's happening in a California town just outside Los Angeles. continue...
President-elect Barack Obama's new economic team will have to roll up their sleeves to achieve their ambitious plan to save the US economy by creating 2.5 million new jobs within two years of taking office. That's what Obama wants, so it will be the first task of Timothy Geithner, the incoming Secretary of the Treasury and former president of the Federal Reserve. His nomination momentarily calmed the waters of the financial world, continue...
Vote, and we'll reward you with a vibrator. The article depicts the photograph of a sex toy surrounded by a star-and-stripes flag, with the caption: "Flag not included". On the eve of election day, in a Country were barely fifty percent of the population usually goes to vote, there's plenty of initiatives aimed at convincing the reluctant citizens. continue...
Two soldiers of the Peruvian Army are dead following an attack carried out by members of Sendero Luminoso in the region of Vizcatan. The second attack in just days by the guerilla group. In 2006, the traces of the group were all but lost when their feared leader, Abimael Guzman was sentenced to life in prison. And so Sendero Luminoso has returned. continue...
In what could be the American election with the highest number of voters in history, millions of electors are voting in dozens of states without waiting for 4 November. In contrast to other elections, this time more Democratic-registered voters are going to the urns to vote early, especially in some of the crucial swing states. This latest bad sign for John McCain and the Republicans, continue...
For the fifth time since the start of the year, the Argentinean agricultural and zoological organizations put themselves on a war footing. “Strike, rallies and war” is the battle cry of the leader of the Coninagro (Confederacion Intercoperativa Agropecurai) Alberto Garetto who has called all the supporters of the movement to protest yet again the decisions of the Christina Fernandez de Kirchner government. continue...
Rio de Janeiro has been confirmed as one of the most violent cities in the world. The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brazil decided to authorise the Army’s rule over the city for the upcoming local elections on 5 October, and forces have been deployed to guarantee the freedom to vote. The police, continue...
