Bolton’s nomination could signal return of ‘unipolarism’
JIM.LOBE John R. Bolton Profile (International Relations Center)Guidance to America and the World in a Time of Trouble (Min. Louis Farrakhan, 05-03-2004) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Many observers, both here and in European capitals, expected that President George Bush's second term would see a modest turn toward multilateralism and a new readiness to compromise on key issues with traditional U.S. allies. Today,...
U.S. opposes Iran oil pipeline as dollar fluctuates
UNITED NATIONS (Finalcall.com) - Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow, Middle East/UN Affairs expert for the Washington-based Institute of Policy Studies, told the Inter Press service back in December that “2006 would be the crucial year” in determining whether the United Nations could “reclaim its role as an independent actor on the world scene, or whether the virulent United States choice...
Nation of Islam in Paris, France
From Paris with Love:A one on one with Thierry Muhammad Paris, France (FinalCall.com) - It's the city where Black notables such as abolitionist Frederick Douglass, scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois; painter Henry O. Tanner; America's first Black novelist William Wells Brown; singer and dancer Josephine Baker; photojournalist Gordon Parks; writers Richard Wright and James Baldwin, found a warm refuge...
Bush administration employs Reagan-era approach
JIM.LOBE Analysis: Bush administration brings Reagan-era ‘strategic consensus’ approach to Arab countries Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Foreign Policy (Ecclectica) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Secretary-of-State Condoleezza Rice denounced the United States’ past support for authoritarian governments in Arab countries two years ago. Nevertheless, she and Pentagon chief Robert Gates are, in an uncannily familiar move, now offering arms to...
Min. Farrakhan delivers message in Virgin Islands
Minister Farrakhan delivers African Liberation Day message in Virgin Islands Farrakhan urges islanders to 'unite and pull together' (Virgin Islands Daily News, 05-23-2008) ST. THOMAS, V.I. (FinalCall.com) - St. Thomas celebrated African Liberation Day with a special visit by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan May 21 to the Senate legislature in their chambers where the Minister spoke before a...
U.S. threatens to deport thousands of Haitians
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - An independent human rights expert, the special envoy of the UN secretary-general to Haiti, the NAACP, and a plethora of activists say this is not a good time for the Department of Homeland Security to move on a plan to deport approximately 30,000 Haitians living in the United States. UN envoy Hedi Annabi noted four back-to-back...
Is Iran next target for war?
(FinalCall.com) - Recent news that Shahram Amiri, an award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, defected to the United States and worked with the CIA in spying on Iran's nuclear program has many analysts asking if the intensified focus on the Islamic Republic of Iran is, again, a pretext for war. Standing side by side with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on March...
Hawkish Israeli government opposes Palestinian reconciliation
(FinalCall.com) - A recently announced reconciliation deal brokered in Egypt could mean the end of a bitter and bloody divide between the two main rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah. Details are not yet finalized, however the agreement reportedly calls for the establishment of an interim unity government and legislative elections within one year. Currently, the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority...
Shameless shell games hurting Haiti?
By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- Three years after devastating earthquake, searching for money and progress in the Black Republic UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - “Why is Haiti reconstruction not happening, all the money that went to the United Nations, the Red Cross and the international NGOs. Where’s the money? That’s what we have been asking from the beginning,” says Amadi Ajamu, a spokesperson...
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...