Home
RSS
Quality Peace?
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Tacitus, ca. 56 – ca. 117)
On 21 September 1980 Iraq launched a full-scale invasion of Iran, which...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
10
Star It 
(0)
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For...
made popular 1 hr. ago
The animals were packed into individual boxes and locked in two cases that had been checked as baggage, a police official said.
The live cargo was discovered on...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Latin America has become the battleground for competing Middle East powers, whose leaders are criss-crossing the continent seeking support from an increasingly...
made popular Nov 12 2009
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police...
made popular Nov 11 2009
The growing number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro’s war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “brave” police...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...
made popular Nov 10 2009
A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class – publicly accusing her Sunday of...
made popular Nov 9 2009
“If you add them all up I control 15 communities,” boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro....
made popular Nov 6 2009
Brazil’s Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last numbers released by the National Institute of Space...
made popular Nov 5 2009
A number of events has projected Brazil into the headlines of international news, besides the traditional stories about violence, natural catastrophes or environmental...
made popular Nov 4 2009
There was a love fest this Friday between presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez during a visit the Brazilian leader paid to...
made popular Nov 3 2009
What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
Filling a gap of info covering an...
made popular Nov 2 2009
An Indian tribe in Brazil has found at least nine survivors after a plane came down deep in the Amazon jungle, the Brazilian air force says.
Two people - a crew member...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Brazil’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
made popular Oct 30 2009
Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.
made popular Oct 29 2009
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been sheltering since September in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa. The de facto leaders of...
made popular Oct 29 2009
The world ranking for freedom of press in 175 countries as reported by French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), earlier this month, has some surprises. Brazil went...
made popular Oct 28 2009
is now one of the strongest bastions of agribusiness on a global level. The world’s tenth largest economy, Brazil is now the nation which suffers the greatest...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Brazilian-American Maria Petrúcia Ribeiro da Silva, 68, died soon after arriving in Rio de Janeiro from New York aboard TAM Airlines. Despite warnings about her...
made popular Oct 26 2009
At least five inmates have burned to death in a fire at a prison in north-eastern Brazil, officials say.
They said about 40 other prisoners were injured at the jail in...
made popular Oct 24 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
War in the Gaza Strip has continued now over week, diplomats and demonstrations are demanding ceasefire immediately - war news and high-flown statements are following...
made popular Jan 6 2009
When the economist Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs Group, created the term BRIC to describe the four major emerging countries in the world, he was making only a...
made popular Nov 14 2008
The US has strongly criticised Russian military action against Georgia, in the bitter conflict over South Ossetia.
In a telephone call to Georgia’s leader...
made popular Aug 11 2008
Bombs rocked Tbilisi early Saturday morning as the fight between Georgia and Russia over a breakaway region intensified and moved into the Georgian capital.
made popular Aug 9 2008
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, Aug. 5 — Henrri Zeballos, a lawyer, and his wife, a dentist, gathered the kids in their minivan for a Sunday-morning drive through their home...
made popular Aug 7 2008
Soft targets. Civilians. Thats how they are known after any terrorists attacks or civil wars or any violent conflicts. But the bottom line is they were families with...
made popular Jul 27 2008
Hitler hated Jews. So he mobilized people and machinery to eradicate the whole race. His concentration camps became death industry. He didn’t need nuclear weapons of...
made popular Jul 2 2008
Then it was Kashmir and now it is Darjeeling. Both the places are well-known for breathtaking natural beauty. Jammu and Kashmir is well-known as heaven on Earth and...
made popular Jun 12 2008
Related Tags
Arms Race bolivia Brazil BRIC Crisis Management Finland Gaza Georgia Global Israel Middle East Peace Politics & Society Russia Russian latin America influence Serbia South America Violence war wars
