Report: UK health system cause for serious concern, lags behind other comparable countries
A new report has warned that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is a cause for “serious concern,” as it lags well behind other comparable countries in terms of key health metrics. The 118-page report by the King’s Fund charity was released on June 26 to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS, comparing Britain’s flagship healthcare provider to the health systems in 19 similar...
Libyan rebels out of oil business?
(FinalCall.com) - Not anticipating the emergence of a stalemate and the creation of two Libyas may have thrown an unintended monkey wrench in plans by Western powers and Arab allies' desire to allow Libyan rebels–now called the Interim National Council–to sell captured oil. According to published reports, the complexity of sanctions of Libya may mean companies wanting to do...
UN General Assembly offers little hope for peace
Palestinians appeal to member states for admission, Iran's president details Western, Zionist global crimes (FinalCall.com) - The 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly convened in which leaders from 193 nations took part in plenary sessions and high-level meetings amidst a backdrop of several global conflicts, growing economic instability and lingering humanitarian crises. The General Assembly is the...
China wows African leaders at Africa China CONFAB in Jo-Burg
GINNEWS (GIN)–At the recently concluded Forum on Africa and China Cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to be everywhere–shaking hands, holding one on ones, watching cultural shows and last but not least, approving generous grants. As the conference in Johannesburg drew to a close, 48 African countries had received pledges, promises and development deals from Asia's principal financial giant. They also...
Powerful neocon brotherhood begins unraveling
JIM.LOBE United States foreign policy Hijacked (FCN, 07-02-2004)Webcast: Guidance in a Time of Trouble (FCN, 05-03-2004) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The Washington foreign policy elite finds itself on pins and needles awaiting a response from the neoconservative heavyweights at the Weekly Standard magazine to a scorching denunciation by one of their most venerable fellow travelers, Francis Fukuyama, in Sunday's New York Times...
U.S. tries to pretend nothing has changed, but everything has changed
“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is the reproach of a people,”—Proverbs: 14:34 (Bible) The U.S. continued to impose illegal sanctions without a United Nations mandate to choke the economies of nations she wanted to bow to her will throughout 2021. These U.S. gangster moves led targeted countries to keep tightening their connections to America’s foes like Russia, China, and Iran...
Qatari UN ambassador demands end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories
Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to bring to an end its occupation of the Palestinian territories, the Syrian Golan Heights and Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms, and creation of a sovereign Palestinian state. Al Thani made the remarks during a United Nations Security Council briefing on...
Killers of African revolutionary Sankara finally convicted in Burkina Faso after 35 years
(GIN)—In what appeared to be a “cold case” after a standstill of over 30 years, a military tribunal has finally ruled in the case of Thomas Sankara, one of the youngest presidents in modern African history, whose life was brutally ended in 1987 by a one-time close friend and ally. Blaise Compaoré, who grabbed power upon Sankara’s death, was sentenced...
UN concerned at surge in civilian casualties as Taliban, govt. resume peace talks in Doha
The United Nations (UN) says civilian casualties in Afghanistan have seen a sharp rise since U.S.-brokered intra-Afghan peace talks began last year. Civilian casualties numbered at 8,820 last year, said the UN mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) in an annual report on Feb. 23. That was 15 percent lower than the previous year, but the report found a sharp uptick and historically high civilian casualties...
U.S. seeks consensus on hard sanctions against Iran
Text of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's letter to President Bush (05-09-2006)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) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The United Nations Security Council was not able to reach agreement during their series of meetings held March 5-8 that attempted to draft a stronger resolution that would...