The Apartheid Wall in Palestine:

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

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The Apartheid Wall in Palestine: The photos tell the tale of segregation created by the state of Israel  






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Alternative Energy and Fuel News: Shale and Where it Lies

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Alternative Energy and Fuel News: Shale and Where it Lies.

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Global Peace Index:World has Become Less Peaceful(link))

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Global Peace Index (GPI) is the world’s leading  measure of national peacefulness. Now in its seventh year, it ranks 162 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’.

The GPI is developed by IEP under the guidance of an international panel of independent experts with data collated and calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It is composed of 22 indicators, ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbouring countries and the percentage of prison population.

2013 Global Peace Index

The 2013 Global Peace Index was launched on the 11th of June 2013. The seventh edition of the index found that the world has become less peaceful, with a rise in the number of homicides worldwide. See the results, highlights and download the report on  the 2013 GPI Findings page.

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The agricultural revolution – UK pushes Europe to embrace GM crops

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

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Britain is to push the European Union to relax restrictions on the licensing of genetically modified crops for human consumption amid growing scientific evidence that they are safe, and surveys showing they are supported by farmers. The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is expected to use a speech next week to outline the start of a new government approach to GM to ensure Britain “is not left behind” in agricultural science.

The move comes as 61 per cent of UK farmers now say they would like to grow GM crops after a disastrous 12-month cycle of poor weather that is expected significantly to reduce harvest yields. Senior government officials said that ministers are increasingly concerned that the potential moral and ethical benefits of GM are being ignored by costly and bureaucratic licensing regulations.

With one-twelfth of global arable land under GM cultivation they have privately warned that Britain faces being left…

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