Mid-East peace deal leaves Palestinians, Iran fuming
The Middle East is going through a regional shift of relations as two Arab nations signed bilateral agreements with the Zionist state of Israel. The uncharacteristic move by the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and the Kingdom of Bahrain is part of United States mediated normalization agreements signed between the countries on September 15 at the White House. While Israeli officials...
Mugabe: Zimbabwe will not be a colony again
MDC says it has a better wayZimbabwe hits rough ground as it seeks to reform ills of past land policyAre White Farmers reaping what they have sown? HARARE–Black America, particularly the Congressional Black Caucus, can help spare this African country the spears and arrows arrayed against it by England and the United States by championing its cause, President Robert Mugabe...
South Africa rallying UN members to oppose war
JOHANNESBURG (IPS)–South Africa is marshaling developing countries in the United Nations to try and prevent war between Iraq and the United States, rather than letting the U.S. ride roughshod over the will of the majority of members of the international organization. South Africa is currently chair of the 115-strong Non-aligned Movement (NAM), which represents the majority of...
British wall of silence around Kenyan rape charges
/GIN Tales of Rape, Sodomy by British Soldiers (Inter Press Service) LONDON (IPS/GIN)--Attempts to investigate complaints that at least 650 Kenyan women were raped by British army soldiers over three decades have run into "a wall of silence," according to Amnesty International. Amnesty is demanding an independent inquiry into the complaints against British army soldiers sent to remote areas of...
The Compassion of Cuba’s Health Care
More doctors equal better healthHAVANA (FinalCall.com) - While major media reports the war of words between America and Cuba over President George Bush's new economic sanctions, very little, if anything, is being said about President Fidel Castro's offer of 500 yearly medical school scholarships to solve the health crisis in the Black community. “We are prepared to grant a...
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...
Protests against Israel’s atrocities in Middle East abound
Israeli massacre in Qana, Lebanan (Warning: Graphic images)UN Secretary Gen. Annan ‘shocked' by deadly Israeli attack on UN post (FCN, 07-26-2006)Crisis brings Rice but no peace (FCN, 07-26-2006)The Media War in the Middle East Targets the Truth (MediaChannel.org, 07-25-2006)Pro-Israel lobby dictates U.S. policy, study charges (FCN, 04-05-2006) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The western media would have every one believe that...
UN resolution on Iran a matter of containment
When the facts on Iran don’t match the rhetoric (FCN, 10-21-2006)Iran showdown tests power of ‘Israel lobby’ (FCN, 04-26-2006) Iranian ambassador sets the record straight (FCN, 04-07-2006) Nuclear hypocrisy in Iran’s treatment (FCN, 03-12-2006) How America crushed democracies (FCN, 08-28-2003)How the U.S. Government destabilized foreign governments (FinalCall.com News) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Iran announced on Apr. 9 that it...
Bush ‘hell-bent’ on war with Iran?
Intelligence report finding of no nukes doesn’t dissuade U.S. president’s crusade Israel jawboning US into striking Iran (PRESS TV, 12-16-2007)Israel and Iran Report (Arab News, 12-15-2007)Iran: NIE report’s pre-Sept. 2003 allegation is a lie (Tehran Times, 12-09-2007)Nuclear hypocrisy in Iran’s treatment (FCN, 03-12-2006)Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad's letter to President George W. Bush (05-2006)Guidance to America and the world in a time...
U.S. foreign policy fuels blowback in Somalia
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The population of Somalia has become increasingly radicalized and anti-U.S., according to a new report by a major U.S. human rights group. U.S. counterterrorism policies and support for the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government in Somalia have helped to create an increasingly desperate humanitarian and security situation in the East African nation, according to the report by...