U.S. Gov’t Destabilizing Africa through AFRICOM
(FinalCall.com) - Thanks to the U.S. and its proxy-led interventions, instability in North Africa and the Middle East has spread to the African continent. Violence, including the longstanding conflict (you might remember “Black Hawk Down”) in Somalia has spread to include Ethiopia, Uganda and most recent victim Kenya. While global concern focuses on poison gas attacks in Syria, Iran's alleged...
Haitian American to design the UN slave trade memorial
By Saeed Shabazz-Staff Writer- ‘Ark of Return': Telling the stories of 15 million slaves in a United Nations permanent memorial UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Rodney Leon, the son of Haitian immigrant parents, was chosen from a field of 310 entrants in 83 nations to design the permanent memorial at the United Nations remembering the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its African victims. A...
Developing nations challenge UN on poverty
By Saeed Shabazz-Staff Writer- UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Many leaders addressing the UN General Assembly during its 68th annual general debate warned if there is no improvement in conditions facing the world's poor, they would look beyond the UN for solutions. “We run the risk of citizens seeing their institutions, and also the United Nations, as something far removed from the...
U.S. urged to curb militarization in Latin America
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS) - The United States needs to phase down its drug war and tighten the reins on its cooperation with local militaries and police in Latin America, according to a new report released here by three influential think tanks. Of particular interest is the increase in training deployments to Latin America and the Caribbean by the Special Operations...
Al-Shabaab, Kenya, oil and raping Somalia
-Contributing Writer- (FinalCall.com) - The recent massacre at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya has yet by the majority media to be put into context. Though the wholesale killing of innocent civilians is never warranted, this time by members of Somalia's al-Shabaab militants, this was not an isolated attack. According to The Guardian, “Unlike Uganda's internationally (AMISOM)...
NSA spy scandal may scuttle EU-U.S. anti-terrorist agreement’EU commissioner
By RT.com The European Union is threatening to suspend a data-sharing deal with the United States used for tracking terrorist bank funding over suspicions the National Security Agency was stealing financial data from law-abiding Europeans. Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU commissioner responsible for investigating the implications of the NSA and GCHQ spy scandal, said the Terror Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) of 2010,...
No handshake–but can Iran-U.S. relations shift?
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - An anticipated handshake between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani didn't happen, but tweets and positive statements renewed hope the two countries might move toward better relations. The excitement around the 68th General Assembly at the United Nations–where President Obama and President Rouhani did not meet–was given a cold chill Sept. 30 by...
Nairobi mall siege: 200 hostages freed, military ‘in control’
By RT.com The Kenyan military has taken control of Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall. Over 200 civilians have been freed and over 60 killed during the three-day bloody hostage crisis in the Kenyan capital. “We're in control of Westgate,” Kenya's interior ministry said in a post on Twitter. “We think that everyone, the hostages, have been evacuated but we don't want to...
Change of faith: Why young Brits turn from Christianity to Islam
By RT.com The UK's official religion is dwindling at a record speed, with the decline of the Church “approaching rock bottom,” experts warn. While Christian congregations age, most British mosques are bringing more and more young people on board. Public mosque services attract thousands of British Muslims, but when you check out a church, there are hardly a dozen participants at...
Chemical weapons used in Syria on ‘large scale’–UN report
By RT.com Chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in the Ghouta area of Damascus in Aug.21 attack, the UN investigators' report says. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon submitted report at a closed-door meeting in New York. “The Mission has concluded that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in the Ghouta area of Damascus in the...