Israel, Zionists ‘master of puppets’ in dangerous anti-Iran onslaught
By RT When America beats the drums of war over Iran it may not always be driven by the Islamic Republic's nuclear intentions. Would-be US presidential candidates aren't shy when it comes to voicing their anti-Iran rhetoric in front of America's influential Jewish community. RT reportson the dangerous anti-Iran rhetoric including a segment convering a suggested assassination of President Obama...
Haiti: Two years after deadly earthquake, life largely unchanged
(FinalCall.com) - “Occupy” Haiti? Activists argue this is exactly what the U.S., UN and thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are doing in the world's first independent Black republic after a devastating earthquake shook this Caribbean nation two years ago. So-called great liberators under the guise of humanitarian aid and rebuilding have become entrenched, calling the shots while the masses...
Rebellion, riots, and racism marked 2011 for Black Brits
(FinalCall.com) - For Black Britons, 2012 began with news many waited 18 years to receive, a semblance of justice for the murder of Stephen Lawrence. White defendants Gary Dobson and David Norris were sentenced Jan. 3 to 15 and 14 years in prison respectively for the brutal racially-motivated 1993 fatal stabbing of Mr. Lawrence, 18. What remains to be...
Corpse desecration latest crisis for U.S. military
- Afghanistan - 10 Years of Failure & Oppression WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as top U.S. defense officials and leaders of NATO combat forces in Afghanistan have condemned a video posted on YouTube and other Internet sites showing what appears to be American forces in Afghanistan urinating on dead Taliban soldiers as “despicable” some political commentators and...
‘Greed, for a lack of better word, is good’
-Contributing Writer- Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, everyone for his gain, from his quarter. –Isaiah 56:11 (FinalCall.com) - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) president Sidumo Dlamini while addressing the 47th National African Federated Chamber of Commerce Conference...
Can ‘Reading the Riots’ study bring change and lessen tension with Black youth in UK?
(FinalCall.com) - Frustration, anger and dissatisfaction with heavy handedness by the police sparked the worst riots in nearly 30 years here, according to a new joint study by the London School of Economics and the United Kingdom's Guardian newspaper. Preliminary findings from the study, “Reading the Riots,” bring issues like “stop and search” and other grievances to light....
Washington unhappy with Pakistani response to soldier deaths in NATO raid
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - As the Pentagon scrambled to satisfy Pakistani demands for a full accounting of a lethal air attack on two border posts, official Washington expressed hope that Islamabad's retaliation will be limited in both time and scope. So far, Pakistan closed two border crossings used by the U.S. and NATO convoys to supply their troops in Afghanistan...
Black Britons express little optimism justice will come
(FinalCall.com) - With an ongoing trial for two White suspects accused of brutally murdering a Black teenager and recent acknowledgement Metropolitan police killed yet another unarmed Black man, the question again arises of whether justice and equality is possible for the 1.5 million sons and daughters of Africa and the Caribbean that call the United Kingdom home. Police brutality,...
U.S. increased domination of world weapons trade in 2010
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The United States consolidated its domination of a shrinking global arms market in 2010, signing $21.3 billion in new weapons orders with foreign countries, according to the latest edition of an annual report on conventional weapons transfers by the Congressional Research Service. Washington's total actually marked a slight decline in orders from 2009. But, because total...
War Hawks fret over U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Eclipsed by the war in Afghanistan, growing tensions between Israel and its neighbors, and the continuing reverberations of the so-called “Arab Spring,” Iraq is inching back into the news here as a debate over the future of U.S. military forces there gathers steam. Military commanders and foreign policy hawks have been distressed by reports that the...