Africa’s new standing army primed for peacekeeping
Birth of the African Union (FCN, 07-14-2002)African Union is made a reality (FCN, 07-24-2001)Birth of the African Union (Minister Louis Farrakhan, 07-24-2001) UNITED NATIONS, Nov 7 (IPS) - As the increasing military tension in the Horn of Africa threatens to escalate into a new war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the 53-member African Union (AU) plans to establish its first-ever...
Protesters mark 2000th death in ‘illegal war’ in Iraq
Broken coalition, resistance and dwindling recruitment mark two-year anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq (FCN, 04-06-2005)Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war (FCN, 04-06-2005) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Marking a grim milestone in the Iraq war, the 2,000th U.S. fatality was reported on Octotober 25; and the toll continues to mount. The financial costs continue to escalate and are well...
Literary giant decries ‘language colonialism’
GINNEWS (GIN) - Nigeria's celebrated novelist Chinua Achebe has called on contemporary African writers to give priority to their mother tongue, in order to lessen the negative consequences of colonialism on African arts and culture. He also called for the revival of Africa's dying oral traditions of storytelling, which he considers unique. The Panafrican News Agency quoted the world famous...
Muslims around the world suspicious of Bush ‘war on Islam’
Interview with Syria's UN Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad (FCN, 10-31-2005)UN's Mehlis report discredited: International espionage over Syria? (Media Monitors, 10-28-2005)Is America headed to Damascus? (FCN, 04-23-2003)Guidance to America and the World (FCN Webcast, 05-03-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as critics in this country assail the U.S. Iraq war as a quagmire; more and more former high-level officials condemn the Bush...
Libyan leader calls for international inquiry in Arafat’s death
TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA) - Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadhafi has called on the Arab League to make arrangements with the parties concerned to set up an international commission of enquiry into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, an official source said here Sunday. "After the results of analyses have demonstrated that President Arafat was poisoned, I am calling...
Powell Aide Blasts Rice, Cheney- Rumsfeld ‘Cabal’
JIM.LOBE U.S. foreign policy Hijacked (FCN, 07-02-2004) WASHINGTON , Oct 20 (IPS) - As top officials in the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office await possible criminal indictments for their efforts to discredit a whistleblower, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Wednesday, accused a ''cabal'' led by Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld of...
Zimbabwe’s president says his nation should not be ridiculed
President Kenneth Kaunda speaks to Black journalists (FCN, 11-18-2003) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe told the United Nations General Assembly that his nation was at "peace" with itself and its neighbors, and offered "absolutely" no threat to international peace and security. It was surprising, therefore, that the United Kingdom and its "Anglo-Saxon allies" had embarked on a...
International offers of support: What about Cuba?
Poor and isolated nations rally to offer aid (UK Times, 09-08-2005)Coalition Urges US Acceptance of Cuban Aid (Prensa Latina, 09-08-2005)Cuba challenges America and Europe (FCN, 04-21-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - During a Sept. 2 press conference, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke of the numerous offers of international support that the United States has received from around the world. “You have...
Fearing riots, U.S. gov’t holds back Abu Ghraib photos
New Iraq Abu Ghraib photos prompts legal battle (FCN, 08-10-2005)After the shame: Prison abuse scandal deepens (FCN, 05-25-2004) NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - Civil libertarians and the Pentagon appear headed for yet another train wreck in the ongoing dispute over the so-called second batch of photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In response to a lawsuit by the American Civil...
New Iraq Abu Ghraib photos prompts legal battle
After the shame: Prison abuse scandal deepens (FCN, 05-25-2004)The psychology of sadistic terrorism (FCN, 05-18-2004) NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - As the Pentagon appointed a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to head the defense team representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it took steps to throw a roadblock into the release of a new batch of...