On November 28, following the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) meeting, oil proceeded to plunge over 10 percent. At the meeting, OPEC decided not to cut production, in order to match demand, but continue to overproduce and drive the price lower. OPEC by its very nature is a cartel, a group of companies … Read more
The operator of Shell Oil Corporation’s two Arctic drilling rigs, deployed in Alaska in 2012, has pleaded guilty to eight felony charges for environmental and health and safety violations during its operation of the rigs. Noble Drilling has agreed to pay $12.2 million dollars in fines and community service payments. According to the judgement by … Read more
Canadians have long paid higher prices for goods than they would south of the border, but now the Canadian government is proposing a new “name and shame” law in order to stem unfair “country pricing.” The federal government wants to give new powers to the Competition Bureau to enable it to investigate the price differences for products sold … Read more
Somewhere in an Anarchist occupied fortress in Barcelona , resides Amir Taaki, a world renowned Cypto-Anachist named one of Forbes top 30 tech entrepreneurs under the age of 30. Amir Taaki hides out with a merry band of progressive software developers that work under the name Unsystem, developing a project that is both politically incendiary … Read more
Ukraine has begun legal proceedings against Russia for alleged violations of the United Nations convention on terrorism, according to the Ukrainian government. “National security is protected not only with weapons, but also in the courts,“ said Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk Tuesday. “We have begun a lawsuit against the Russian Federation in the International Court of … Read more
A vast security perimeter around southern British Columbia has been established by Canadian health authorities, in which the slaughter of 146,000 birds at five affected farms has almost been completed. The region is the most recent to be affected by a highly virulent strain of H5N2 avian influenza. “Those who have put some restrictions on all of Canada will start to look at … Read more
Tweet Chile has been experiencing a nationwide surge in what has commonly become referred to as “detención ciudadana” or “civilian detention,” otherwise characterized as vigilante justice. The phenomenon has been captured on personal and security cameras throughout the country and uploaded to YouTube and other social media in growing numbers. These events span the gamut … Read more
China has announced that it will cease the controversial practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. China, which harvests over half of all its donated organs from executed prisoners, has set a new deadline for the policy change–the beginning of 2015. Chinese officials have promised to end organ harvesting from prisoners by Jan.1. China “will completely stop” using … Read more
The state of emergency has been declared in Male, the capital of the Maldives island chain, much of which has been deprived of drinking water since Dec. 5 when the city’s sole water and sewage treatment plant burned. “I think the situation is more serious than the government admits” one resident, who requested anonymity, told local news agency Minivan News. … Read more
It was announced in November that the Japanese Central Bank would ramp up its Quantitative Easing Program (QE), bringing its yearly expansion of the money supply up to $682 billion. The end of the United States’ QE program was very well documented, as was the substantial rise in asset prices which were a result of … Read more
Overnight in the Democratic Republic of Congo 36 people were killed with machetes and axes, despite the efforts of the national army and UN peacekeepers to halt the series of massacres attributed to Ugandan rebels. Between Saturday to Sunday in the eastern DRC, deaths attributed to the rebel militants since October rose to over 250. The attacks took place on the … Read more
Agustin Gómez Pérez, 18, was lit on fire by comrades in an act of civil disobedience against the Congress of Chiapas, which, the anarchist group Frente Ricardo Flores Magon alleged, was responsible for the arrest of a comrade in May. The group is demanding the release of their comrade, one Florentino Gómez Girón, an indigenous leader … Read more