No agreement at UN small arms conference
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The first conference to review the 2001 “Programme of Action” to control the illicit trade in small arms ended without agreement...
U.S. conduct in terror war destroyed image abroad
WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - It was in 1776 that a group of British colonists living along the Atlantic seaboard of North America felt compelled to...
Pentagon resists ban on degrading prisoners
Amnesty: Guantanamo 'the gulag of our time' (FCN, 06-08-2005)Charge them or let them go! (FCN/Min. Louis Farrakhan, 05-25-2005) NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - As new...
Presidents of Iran, Venezuela attend African Union Summit
The African Union (Official Site)Birth of The African Union (FCN, 07-14-2002) Banjul, The Gambia (PANA) - Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...