The United Nations is projecting that by 2100 there will be 10.1 billion on the planet. Africa’s population will triple rising from one billion to 3.6 billion. The report, containing this news, was released on Tuesday. Here are some of the highlights and implications for the African continent, as reported by The New York Times: […]
Today is World AIDS Day, which means you can expect the gatekeepers of Team: Save Africa to be in exceptionally fine form. In years past, Bono and (RED) have reigned supreme but this year brings a new contender in the form of Alicia Keys and her charity, Keep A Child Alive (KCA). Founded in 2003 […]
Jacob Collins, writing in The New Left Review, summarizes Regis Debray’s critique of ‘Human Rights’:
The Africa we dream of/Only 8 goals away. This from the “8 Goals for Africa” song, which is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the eight Millenium Development Goals. As you can see, the song features a veritable who’s who of stars from across […]
So Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the last leader of the racist National Party (that was the party who invented Apartheid and governed South Africa from 1948 till democracy came) is the favorite for the United Nations’ top climate post, as director of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to force industrial nations to hopefully […]
Foreign Policy’s website has this story: “David M. Crane, the former U.N. war crimes prosecutor for the Special Court in Sierra Leone, and his chief investigator, Alan A. White, indicted former Liberian warlord and president Charles Taylor in 2003. Three months ago, their new firm CW Group International offered to sell legal services to the […]
OK My Club, an invention of Chinese artist Xu Zhen exists to “beat up” political figures such as US President George W. Bush, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The work is a mix of photography, trickery and performance. The title of the work above is “www.okmyclub.com fought Annan […]
