New video from Syria showing U.S.-backed fighters brutality emerges
By RT.com The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on Syria & U.S. Govt's Errant Policy A video smuggled over the Syrian border by a former rebel features a mass execution of government soldiers by the Jund al-Sham group fighting Assad. The latest example of rebel brutality comes as Washington prepares to intervene into the conflict. The video, obtained by New York...
UN experts: U.S. needs to wrap up review of Trayvon Martin case and examine laws
UNNEWS Center UNITED NATIONS - A group of United Nations independent experts has called on the government of the United States to finalize the ongoing review of the case involving the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, a Black American teenager who was shot in 2012 by a neighborhood watchman in the state of Florida. “We call upon the U.S. government to...
UN won’t hurry report on sarin in Syria
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - A report by the Voice of Russia and some connected to the European Union that the UN chemical weapons inspection team would release its findings two weeks early was denied by an associate spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. On Sept. 4, Mr. Ban's lead spokesman told reporters in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he is attending...
Putin: Syria chemical attack is ‘rebels’ provocation in hope of intervention’
By RT.com The alleged chemical weapons use in Syria is a provocation carried out by the rebels to attract a foreign-led strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit. There was no 50/50 split of opinion on the notion of a military strike against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, Mr. Putin stressed refuting earlier assumptions. Only Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia...
Report: Syrian rebels plan chemical attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories
By RT.com * Farrakhan delivers warning against Syria military strike, sends letter to congressional leaders on errant U.S. policy A chemical attack may be launched on Israel by Syrian rebels from government-controlled territories as a "major provocation", a number of sources have told RT. The news comes as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed that Syria puts its chemical weapons arsenal under...
Syria: As talk of war increases, UN focusing on chemical weapons claim
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - “For now, our focus is on our chemical weapons investigation in Syria and on the diplomatic process. We continue to push for a negotiated solution to the crisis,” stated the Deputy Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in an email message to The Final Call on August 26. He was responding to a question concerning whether...
Egypt’s crisis and violence grows
(FinalCall.com) - In Cairo on August 14, the worst was realized as Egypt's security forces, backed by bulldozers, and using tear gas and live ammunition, moved in on two huge pro-Mohamed Morsi protest camps, launching into a long-threatened forced removal. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of the mostly peaceful demonstrators dead and thousands more wounded. The shooting and unrest continued...
CARICOM at 40: Reparations calls, and questions about regional unity
By Saeed Shabazz-Staff Writer- UNITED NATIONS - When a two-day, closed-door meeting between delegates representing the 15-nation Caribbean Community and representatives of the UN ended, what wasn't discussed appeared more important than what was discussed. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque in his opening remarks told the gathering during the recent Conference of CARICOM heads of government: “Our leaders discussed a framework...
Political musical chairs, money, America and Egypts crisis
(FinalCall.com) - In a diplomatic move that displayed how fluid the developing situation in Egypt is, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns recently made the first senior level visit by a U.S. official since President Mohammed Morsi was overthrown by a widely disputed military coup. Though Burns said he came with no “American solutions, nor did I come...
Report gives graphic details of Guantanamo forcefeeding
WASHINGTON (IPS) - “Bleeding,” “vomiting,” “a quarter or even a third” of bodyweight lost, “torture.” These are characteristic descriptions from testimony by hunger strikers at the detention center at U.S. Occupied Guantanamo Bay Cuba of their experience being force-fed at the hands of U.S. officials, published in a recent report. The report, produced by Reprieve, a U.K.-based legal...