Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/home-m11.shtml

A new Obama administration program will provide incentives for banks to enter into “short sale” agreements with struggling homeowners. While allowing banks to forego the process of foreclosure, it would do nothing to keep people from losing their homes.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/comp-m11.shtml

US corporations are beginning to release figures on CEO pay for last year. Multi-million dollar packages are the norm in a year that saw the continued deterioration in the living conditions of the vast majority of the population.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m11.shtml

A rash of new layoff announcements and government reports on job losses give the lie to the claims of the Obama administration and the media that the employment situation is “stabilizing.” Last Friday, the administration hailed the Labor Department’s report that US payrolls shrank by “only” 36,000 jobs in February and the official jobless rate remained at 9.7 percent as proof that its policies are working and the economy is recovering.

Link: http://www.voltairenet.org/article164425.html

The European Parliament adopted during its Wednesday session a decision calling for implementing the recommendations of the Goldstone report on Gaza war, in preparation to present the resolution to the 13th session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council which will be held in Geneva by the end of March [1]. The decision states that the E.U. has the responsibility to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian investigations of war crimes committed during the Israeli war on Gaza.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/03/201031017534792361.html

Nine of the 10 Christian missionaries that were detained in Haiti after they illegally tried to take 33 Haitian children across the border - following January's devastating earthquake - have been freed and are now back at home in the US.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/03/20103114363903347.html

Protesters plan to bring Greece to a standstill, with public workers and private unions holding a strike.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/2010310124817810475.html

Joe Biden, the US vice-president, has said that Israel's decision to expand settlement activity in occupied East Jerusalem "undermines" the trust needed for peace talks.

Tornadoes have struck parts of Arkansas, injuring four people and destroying a handful of homes. Emergency Management spokeswoman Renee Preslar says three people suffered major injuries Wednesday in a tornado that destroyed a house near Pearson in northern Arkansas.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7057026.ece

Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, lost his temper with a freelance journalist at a press conference yesterday and ordered him to be ejected.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7057511.ece

Kieran Mullen deals with an offending laptop and becomes a YouTube hit
The perfect university lecture, it is sometimes said, involves the transmission of information from the lecturer’s notes to the student’s notebook without passing through the brain of either.