Divide, the good bad and the future begins now. As much changes over the last ten to 15 years, will look small compared to what will happen in the next ten or 15 years. The Digital Divide. The nation thats home to Silicon Valley innovation and tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg is also home to low income people to those who dont have internet, an economic and social disaster, in a world that information and knowledge is a currency that buys prosperity and power. Tonight i would like to talk about the good the bad and the future of connectivity around the globe. Today we got a lock at where america stands in relation to fast internet and the u. S. Ranks seventh among 143 countries. Im going to talk to one of these key people, but one of the reasons the u. S. Lags behind singapore finland and sweden. Its affordability. America rd when it comes the what you pay for cellular or broadband networks. What you pay for access, it might make you angry but you cant even afford to get online a
An iphone in their pocket, some people still dont have Affordable Access to the internet. Im ali velshi. My special report on the Digital Divide, the good bad and the future begins now. As much changes over the last ten to 15 years, will look small compared to what will happen in the next ten or 15 years. The Digital Divide. The nation thats home to Silicon Valley innovation and tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg is also home to low income people to those who dont have internet, an economic and social disaster, in a world that information and knowledge is a currency that buys prosperity and power. Tonight i would like to talk about the good the bad and the future of connectivity around the globe. Today we got a lock at where america stands in relation to fast internet and the u. S. Ranks seventh among 143 countries. Im going to talk to one of these key people, but one of the reasons the u. S. Lags behind singapore finland and sweden. Its affordability. America rd when it comes the
The u. N shares his thoughts on genocide. The Environmental Impact of the bp oil spill and the economic recovery. The plight of migrants from africa and the middle east having tragic consequences tonight. The search for survivors continues off italys southern coast. That is where nearly 700 migrants are missing after their boat capsized. Two dozen bodies have been recovered. 2,000 fleeing the city of ramadi the homeless are in the middle of a war zone. And south africa, jacob zuma says he will end xenophobic aarticulation. Calling for an International Effort to stop the Human Trafficking of migrants from africa. According to the times of malta the boat overturned 125 miles south of lampedusa. The main route for migrants fleeing libya. Paul brennan has the story. The search and rescue is being supported by coast guard and helicopters. Joined which merchant vessels. Planes are crisscrossing the sea where the migrant boat capsized. Scouring the ways for survivors but the likelihood are gr
Some people still dont have Affordable Access to the internet. Im ali velshi. My special report on the Digital Divide the good bad and the future begins now. As much changes over the last ten to 15 years will look small compared to what will happen in the next ten or 15 years. The Digital Divide. The nation thats home to Silicon Valley innovation and tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg is also home to low income people to those who dont have internet, an economic and social disaster, in a world that information and knowledge is a currency that buys prosperity and power. Tonight i would like to talk about the good the bad and the future of connectivity around the globe. Today we got a lock at where america stands in relation to fast internet and the u. S. Ranks seventh among 143 countries. Im going to talk to one of these key people, but one of the reasons the u. S. Lags behind singapore finland and sweden. Its affordability. Americard when it comes the what you pay for cellular or b
In ways that he never intended, the first and only president of the Soviet Union shaped world history.
By Scott Ritter
Special to Consortium News
I bore first-hand witness to the birth of the Perestroika “revolution” unleashed on the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev, and to its eventual d