Suicides further stir the cauldron at Guantanamo
Bush Administration rejected as Supreme Court rules Guantanamo tribunals 'illegal' (BBC, 06-29-2006) Pentagon’s Guantanamo tribunals are ruled illegal (FCN, 02-17-2005) NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - The U.S. government sought to distance itself June 13 from an official’s statement calling the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay prisoners a “public relations move,” as human rights groups, legal experts and...
Bush Hawks Down in Somalia
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS) - The takeover of Mogadishu this month by Islamic militias marks a major defeat for the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, which had secretly backed a coalition of warlords that has reportedly been routed from the Somali capital. While the victors, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), sought to assure the international community that they have...
UN sends envoy to Sudan
Sudan peace agreement welcomed at the UN (FCN, 05-16-2006)One-sided Reporting That Is Delaying An End To The Killing (UK Guardian/ZNET, 05-06-2006)Sudan needs help, not sanctions - A report from Darfur (FCN, 09-23-2004) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The United Nations sent respected diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi to Khartoum to consult with the government of President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir on the world...
Activists hail censure of Washington’s ‘terror war’
Report: European nations complicit in CIA abductions, secret prisons (Al Jazeera, 06-07-2006)Amnesty: Guantanamo 'the gulag of our time' (FCN, 06-08-2005)Carter: Guantanamo Prison Camp, an Embarassment for U.S. (Prensa Latina, 06-08-2005)Farrakhan calls for delegation to be sent to Guantanamo (FCN, 05-25-2005) NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - Human rights organizations here are hailing recommendations by the United Nations Committee Against Torture that the United...
Press retracts story alleging Iranian Jews to wear badges
JIM.LOBE Unrepentant Harper Answers Lies with Lies (PEJ, 05-25-2006)Iran Badge Story: More Neocon Propaganda (Kurtnimmo, 05-2006)“The synagogue of Satan” by Minister Louis Farrakhan (05-03-2003) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - A story authored by a prominent U.S. neo-conservative regarding new legislation in Iran allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive color badges recently circulated around the world before it was...
Debate over UN reform shows divide between rich and poor
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - In 1964, the Group of 77 (G-77) plus China was formed at the United Nations, according to one of its founding fathers, Tanzanian president, Julius Kambarage “Mwalimu” Nyerere, to create an opportunity for developing nations to be prime movers of their own destiny. “The Group of 77 was created to change the status quo, which was...
Sudan peace agreement welcomed at the UN
One-sided Reporting That Is Delaying An End To The Killing (UK Guardian/ZNET, 05-06-2006)Sudan needs help, not sanctions - A report from Darfur (FCN, 09-23-2004) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Although CNN had been reporting since early afternoon on May 5 that there was a peace agreement signed between the government of Sudan and the main rebel group the Sudanese Liberation Army...
African leaders appeal for Darfur, Sudan peace deal
Ex-rebel women are peacemakers in Darfur talks (FCN, 01-10-2006)Sudan needs help, not sanctions - A report from Darfur (TWF, 09-23-2004)Sudan, Oil, and the Darfur Crisis (FCN, 07-07-2004) Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - African leaders attending the African Union's special summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Abuja on Thursday took turns to appeal to the parties at the Darfur peace...
Iran showdown tests power of ‘Israel lobby’
JIM.LOBE Pro-Israel lobby dictates U.S. policy, study charges (FCN, 04-05-2006)Iranian ambassador sets the record straight (FCN, 04-07-2006)Iran: Zionist regime root-cause of Middle East insecurity (IRNA, 04-08-2006) Nuclear hypocrisy in Iran's treatment (FCN, 03-12-2006) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - One month after the publication by two influential international relations scholars of a highly controversial essay on the so-called “Israel Lobby,” their thesis that the...
Bush sticks to neo-conservative course on Israel
JIM.LOBE Are Israel's Interests In Americas' Interests? (CounterCurrents.org, 03-29-2006) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - If the medium is the message, then President George Bush's choice of forum to launch a new public campaign to defend his beleaguered Iraq policy should be troubling to those hoping his administration was moving toward a more even-handed stance in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The staunchly neo-conservative Foundation...