With the current U.S. recession turning into a full-scale depression, it’s time for many Americans to broaden their job searches past the horizon. We haven’t seen unemployment at levels like this since the recession caused by Carter’s inflationary spending of the late 1970′s. Quite literally, there are no jobs for many of our sons and [...]
45,000 Verizon employees are now on strike — in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Carter administration. The union members are employees of Verizon’s ailing wireline business and they are demanding that Verizon use profits from it’s successful wireless business to subsidize the poorly performing wireline business. The wireline business is suffering [...]
Alan Gross, a 61yr old American, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the brutal regime of the Cuban Castro brothers. Alan has been held since 2009 when he was arrested for giving a satellite phone to a Jewish group in Cuba. At the time, Gross was working for Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), [...]
Las Damas de Blanco (The Ladies in White) is a group of almost suicidally brave Cuban women. The group formed in 2003 after the Cuban dictatorship arrested seventy-five journalists, librarians, and human rights defenders. The individuals were arrested in clear violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which guarantees [...]
Provea, the Venezuelan Program of Education Action in Human Rights, recently released statistics on violence in Venezuela during the year 2009. The Venezuelan police killed 2,685 Venezuela’s last year. That is almost as many people as were murdered in the attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City. That is about seven times [...]
Huge Chavez, Venezuela’s loony leftist leader, has seized several warehouses belonging to the Empresas Polar brewing company and has ordered the Venezuela military to crack down on businesses selling beer. Chavez is threatening to completely shut down Empresas Polar, perhaps due to political differences with Larry Mendoza, President of Empresas Polar. Mendoza received a Bachelors [...]
