Africom: President Obama’s Bush inheritance, challenge
(FinalCall.com) - Among the many things the Obama administration has inherited from Bush II is an unwieldy colonialist-lite intervention mechanism, masquerading protectionist-likeand called...
UK opens UFO files
LONDON (AP) - The deputy commander of a U.S. Air Force base in England was baffled by what he'd seen: bright, pulsing lights in...
Honduras coup made in Washington?
Honduran delegation seeks support for ousted president NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - A delegation of citizens from the Central American nation Honduras recently gathered on the...
Inching toward a global arms treaty?
/GIN UNITED NATIONS (IPS/GIN) - The United Nations concluded an open-ended working group for an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in mid-July, part...
Ex-lawmaker: We were arrested for trying to give crayons to children
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - At last, former six-term Congress member and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney arrived in the Gaza Strip carrying humanitarian...
Remittances to poor countries fall
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The amount of money immigrants from poor countries send to their families back home is expected to decline between seven...
U.S. slams door on greater UN role in economic crisis
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The United Nations General Assembly convened a major conference on the global financial crisis in late June meetings at its New...
Former Bagram airbase detainees tell of torture
NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has uncovered allegations that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase...
International media and Obama’s message to the Muslim world
(FinalCall.com) - Pre- and post-reaction to President Obama's speech delivered in Cairo to the Muslim world was overwhelmingly favorable and seemed to take...
Shell pays settlement, ends Nigerian abuse lawsuit
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Royal Dutch Shell settled a long-pending case June 8, reaffirming the possibility for corporations to be held accountable in U.S....