Category: Americas

One of the leaders in mobile entertainment, Binbit, has signed a contract to deliver exclusive B2C content of Playboy brands: Playboy, Venus and Forman. Through this strategic alliance, Binbit will provide to the carrier’s customers with the full catalogue of wallpapers, animations and video clips of Playboy brands. This partnership includes the following countries: Mexico, […]

As the 43rd President of the United States prepares to leave office – many have asked the question: how will his legacy be viewed by the world? Of course, prevailing opinion indicates that Bush is the most unpopular President in the history of America, with a record 71% disapproval rating in 2008 (source: CNN/Opinion Research […]

A new report from The World Bank admits that in 2005 over three billion people live on less that $2.50 a day and about 44% of these people survive on less than $1.25. Complete and total wretchedness can be the only description for the circumstances faced by so many, especially those in urban areas. Simple […]

The arrest of Radovan Karadzic, and the recent European and Middle Eastern tour of Presidential candidate Barack Obama may present an opportunity for a dramatic and progressive shift of America’s ‘War on Terror’. After 13 years of running from his crimes, the world’s most wanted man has finally been captured. Serbian police forces made the […]

Public access TV, long the home of quirky, community-based programming, is struggling in the wake of efforts by cable companies to reduce funding for training and production for citizen producers. Just weeks after Patsy Robles and her 15-year-old daughter stepped into the studio of San Antonio’s Channel 20 during the summer of 2004 they were […]

As the Iraq War turns five, anti-war protesters struggle to grab the public’s attention. Travis Murphy protests the war in Iraq every Friday – by making-out with his girlfriend. Since September, the 25-year-old Iraq War veteran and his girlfriend have organized a weekly anti-enlistment “kiss-in” outside of the Marine Recruitment Center in Berkeley, Calif. Murphy, […]

After years in the wilderness, the Communist Party USA is giving itself a public relations and ideological makeover, and, with its new $1 million office, hopes to be running the US within 50 years. The décor inside the national headquarters of the Communist Party USA, or CPUSA, is more Macy’s than Marx. Glass walls rise […]

Increasing numbers of Latinas are converting to Islam, for love, faith and, some say, a sense of respect. But some find acceptance from family and friends is harder to come by. When Beatriz Kehdy was growing up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, she felt uncomfortable with the standards of beauty that she says were a part […]