Josh Stieber, an Iraq war veteran turned conscientious objector, explained to Al Jazeera English why he questioned whether the 8-year war in Iraq was worth it.
A group of "Occupy Wall Street" protesters on Tuesday marched to Sotheby's locales in Manhattan to show their support for unionized art handlers who are locked in a three-months-long contract dispute with the auction house. Sotheby's wants the workers to accept wage cuts, even though the company reportedly sold $3 billion worth of art in the first half of this year alone.
A couple hundred protesters in Washington, D.C. affiliated with "Occupy D.C." and "Stop the Machine" converged at Freedom Plaza on Thursday to protest corporate money in politics and wars overseas. Although the two groups are separate movements, they share many of the same goals and grievances.
The company Datawind has developed a book-sized computer that costs only $45, making it the world's cheapest computer tablet. It was created in India, where the government plans to make more than 100,0000 of the computers available to university students across the country. The new tablet is called the "Aakash."
