Child malnutrition costs global economy billions yearly: report
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS) - In addition to the serious health problems it causes, child malnutrition is costing the global economy tens of billions of dollars a year by depriving its victims of the ability to learn basic skills, according to a new report released by Save the Children. Based on a multi-year study in four countries, the 23-page report found...
Why is Obama going to Africa but not the OAU/AU Summit?
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Organization of Africa Unity-African Union (OAU/AU). Three issues–Pan Africanism, which includes continental integration, sustainable development and the empowerment of women, according to African Union Chair Nokosazan Klamini-Zuma “loom the largest,” for the group's meeting planned for May 25-27 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AU's predecessor, the OAU, came into existence as...
‘Well-behaved’ African leaders rewarded by President Obama
(FinalCall.com) - Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president after independence and the person most identified with the creation of the Organization of African Unity, came to disapprove of the way that certain African leaders had abandoned the African revolution. His concern was that they were failing their people by initially “checking with Washington, London and Paris before making...
Libya Intervention: More questionable in rear view mirror
JIM.LOBE Witnessing the Transition to Fear in Tripoli, Libya (FCN, 09-16-2011) Minister Farrakhan's Press Conference on U.S., NATO War Against Libya (FCN Video, 06-15-2011) Gold, Oil, Africa and Why the West Wants Gadhafi Dead (FCN, 06-07-2011) WASHINGTON - While the tenth anniversary last month of Washington’s invasion of Iraq provoked overwhelmingly negative reviews of...
Why does ICC only prosecute African leaders?
(FinalCall.com) - Over 60,000 people attended Kenya's presidential inauguration. African leaders in attendance included Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan, South Africa's Jacob Zuma and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. If one thought the presence of the 800-pound Gorilla in the room–the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment that hangs over the head of Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's newly elected president–was going to be...
Secret document reveals US Gov’t strategy to destabilize Venezuela
By RT.com In a secret US cable published online by WikiLeaks, former ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to infiltrate and destabilize former President Hugo Chavez' government. Dispatched in November of 2006 by Brownfield -- now an Assistant Secretary of State -- the document outlined his embassy's five core objectives in Venezuela since 2004, which included: “penetrating Chavez'...
UN marks Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade but no mention of crimes against humanity, or the need for reparations
By Saeed Shabazz-Staff Writer- UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon opened the annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade by calling on people to “address the lingering consequences” of slavery and to fight for equality, justice and peace. The two-term UN secretary-general suggested the best way of honoring victims of the Trans-Atlantic...
Collapse of Caribbean regional group not a good sign
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The 15-member Community of Caribbean States and Common Market (CARICOM) released a report in the first week of March stating that the 40-year-old regional integration movement could come to an end because of poor financing, dissatisfaction and the ongoing world economic crisis. CARICOM's Guyana-based secretariat noted that the regional bloc formed in 1973 to promote trade...
UN rejects lawsuit, claims immunity in Haiti
By Saeed Shabazz-Staff Writer- UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General recently told reporters at UN headquarters in New York that the world body is rejecting claims filed on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti. Fifteen months ago the Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy In Haiti and its Haitian counterpart, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, delivered to...
U.S. misspent billions on fruitless Iraq ‘reconstruction’
By RT.com In spending $60 billion to rebuild Iraq, the U.S. has wasted more than $9 billion in taxpayer funds, only to find that Iraq is just as wrecked and unstable as before. One decade after the U.S. invaded Iraq, the reconstruction effort has been largely deemed a failure. In his final report to Congress, a 171-page assessment titled “Learning from...