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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Iceland: the other Lebanon

Lebanon refused to be manipulated into more civil wars, and signed MOU's.  Iceland refused the global economic policy to socialize private debt, and changed its government and constitution changed its government and constitution.

Friday, May 18, 2012

women's rights in Lebanon


Lebanon is much further ahead and liberal relative to its environment, but there are Lebanese blue laws, outdated and ignored by modern Lebanon, that need to be changed. One of the them is article 522, as this campaign explains:

Campaign to abolish Article 522 from Lebanese Penal Code حملة إلغاء المادة ٥٢٢ من قانون العقوبات اللبناني 


Argument based on solid data: interactive map of the destruction of Palestine

Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed in Nakba | The Electronic Intifada:

Monday, May 14, 2012

Nuclear power plants fuelled by nuclear waste

Most people cringe at the thought of nuclear power plant, because one accident can doom an area and it inhabitant for centuries. But MIT students designed a nuclear power plant fuelled by nuclear waste.  This is a solution to having nuclear waste buried and radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. Waste is buried in man-made structures, which is dangerous in itself.