Haiti‘s Caracol Industrial Park—the U.S. State Department and Clinton Foundation pet project to deliver aid and reconstruction to earthquake-ravaged Haiti in the form of private investment—is systematically stealing its garment workers‘ wages, paying them 34 percent less than minimum wage set by federal law, a breaking report from the Worker Rights Consortium reveals.

Today‘s Republicans used the Tea Party. And now it‘s come back to bite them. While Tea Partiers like Louie Gohmert may be popular in their own districts, most Americans are disgusted by them. They don‘t like the Tea Party‘s extremism and they don‘t want to sabotage the government. The majority of the country now thinks „Tea Party“ when it hears the word „Republican.“ This has led to historically low approval ratings for the GOP.

The tribunal, established in 2006, has only sentenced one defendant so far. Chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in running the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of inmates were killed.

The government wants to correct decades of ‚land reform in reverse‘. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country‘s displaced peasants

Laut dem niederländischen Ministerpräsidenten Mark Rutte wäre es verfrüht, von einer Absage des geplanten Russland-Besuchs durch König Willem-Alexander wegen des jüngsten Zwischenfalls mit einem niederländischen Diplomaten in Moskau zu sprechen, wie niederländische Medien berichten…

Inzwischen sind einige niederländische Politiker mit der Initiative aufgetreten, das Russlandjahr in den Niederlanden und das Jahr der Niederlande in Russland zu widerrufen.