NGOs sue U.S. gov’t for disappeared detainees
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Three human rights groups sued the U.S. government June 7 to force it to disclose information about detainees allegedly held in secret prisons by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). More than three dozen detainees, who remain unaccounted for, are believed to have been locked up due to the “global war on terror” at some point during...
Sudan and America’s racist foreign policy
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Bush imposes pre-emptive sanctions on the Sudan WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Hostility toward the government of the Sudan by the U.S. and other Western nations only serves to extend the armed conflict and prolong the humanitarian suffering in Darfur, Sudan’s Foreign Minister told reporters at the National Press Club here, in a satellite video conference from Khartoum June 6. “The biggest...
Nigeria sues U.S. drug company Pfizer for $7 Billion
GINNEWS Anger at deadly Nigerian drug trials (BBC, 06-20-2007)Pharmaceutical trials in developing countries criticized (FCN, 06-11-2007)Nigeria: Drug Test - FG Sues Pfizer for $7 Billion (Daily Trust, 06-05-2007)Profit still trumps public health for ‘Big Pharma’ firms (FCN, 12/08/2006)Pharmaceutical cartel: How does it work? (FCN, 02/04/2004)Activists charge pharmaceutical cartel with being a tool for genocide (BBC, 01-20-2004) (GIN) - The pharmaceutical company...
Pharmaceutical trials in developing countries criticized
Profit still trumps public health for ‘Big Pharma’ firms (FCN, 12/08/2006)Pharmaceutical cartel: How does it work? (FCN, 02/04/2004)Activists charge pharmaceutical cartel with being a tool for genocide (FCN, 01/20/2004) NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - A senior UNESCO official has criticized multi-national pharmaceutical firms which conduct clinical trials in developing countries without adequately informing their volunteers of the possible risks involved...
Zimbabwe elected to chair UN commission, despite Western and European protests
Britain continues to pressure UN to censure Zimbabwe (FCN, 04-13-2007) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Zimbabwe was elected to chair the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), the panel that deals with development and the environment, on May 11. The chair traditionally rotates among regions of the world. Under UN protocol, this was Africa’s turn in the one-year seat, and the...
Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war
JIM.LOBE National Security Archive reveals Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war Pentagon OK's Propaganda for Iraq (LA Times, 03-04-2006)Pentagon pays Iraqi papers to print its 'good news' stories (UK Guardian, 12-01-2005)U.S. Journalist Quits Pentagon Iraqi Media Project (Democracy Now !, 01-14-2004)Journalists: U.S. media censorship is ‘rampant’ (FCN, 07-17-2003) WASHINGTON, USA (IPS/GIN) - The Pentagon was strategizing about how to control the Iraqi...
UN-backed court to start trial of Charles Taylor in June
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The war crimes trial against the deposed former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, will begin on June 4 with opening arguments, according to a UN News Service, dated May 8. The United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone announced the starting date during a recent pre-trial conference in The Hague. “That Charles Taylor will now face...
Black media delegation returns from Darfur
U.S., British interference complicates Sudan crisis (FinalCall.com) - The truth concerning the atrocities and fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region–an area that is overwhelmingly Muslim and shares a border and tribal heritage with Chad–is more complex than the U.S. media would have you believe. According to historian Douglas H. Johnson’s Civil War analogy, Darfur is a “mishmash of different forces–federal, Confederate, government,...
Despite U.S. threat of sanctions, Sudan demands African Union peacekeeping force
U.S. and Britain want tougher sanctions for Sudan (FCN, 04-24-2007)Sudanese president answers questions on Darfur (FCN, 05-14-2007)Reconnecting the international struggles of Black people (Min. Louis Farrakhan/FCN, 05-07-2006)FCN Editorial - Clear the cloud of confusion over Sudanese conflict (02-10-2005) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon recently met in New York for high-level...
Ulterior motives believed to drive U.S. war on terror, survey says
JIM.LOBE U.S. conduct in ‘terror war’ destroyed image abroad (FCN, 07-17-2006)Neo-con fanatics push internment for American Muslims (FCN, 02-18-2005)The "War on Terror Exposed" (FCN/Min. Louis Farrakhan, 05-03-2004) WASHINGTON, U.S.A. (IPS/GIN) - More than 75 percent of people in Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia and Pakistan believe U.S. foreign policy is aimed to weaken the Islamic world and maintain control over oil in...