TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Solar power sees unprecedented boom in the United States – solar power grew by 6.2 gigawatts in 2014; and 1 million American homes have solar panels as of February 2016. However, the United States dragged India to the World Trade Organization claiming that India’s efforts to boost local production of solar cells and solar modules violated WTO rules. Read More…
Prosecutors in Belgium have recently announced that executives with pharmaceutical companies based in the country will be charged with knowingly providing drug cartels with prescription drugs that were used to manufacture methamphetamine. The companies are accused of providing the Mexican drug kingpin Ezio Figueroa Vazquez with several tons of ephedrine, knowing that it would be Read More…
Last year, Baron David de Rothschild was indicted by the French government after he was accused of fraud in a scheme that allegedly embezzled large sums of money from British pensioners. It has taken many years to bring this case against Rothschild and his company the Rothschild Financial Services Group, which trapped hundreds of pensioners in a Read More…
While some may claim that the settlements made with big banks in recent years are better than nothing or are significant amounts, no matter how much that bank borrowed in 2008-2009, to say that these settlements are minuscule at best is an understatement. Last month, Morgan Stanley, one of the largest investment banks in the Read More…
Once again Monsanto is making headlines; and yet again, those headlines allude to a bigger picture of a company rife with corruption and deceitful practices, such as many suspected all along. German beer enthusiasts were shocked to find out on Thursday that an environmental group announced that it found traces of the widely used weed-killer ingredient glyphosate Read More…
On March 1st, Facebook Vice President Diego Jorge Dzodan was arrested in São Paulo, Brazil. The controversy is centered around Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging software, and seems to be a basic premise that has been gaining some inertia in Brazil for quite some time. At the end of last year, a Brazilian judge actually ruled that WhatsApp be Read More…