Final Call Editor-in-Chief in Haiti
By Richard Muhammad -Editor-In-Chief Editor's Notebook From Haiti (FCN, February 11, 2010) (FinalCall.com) - Final Call editor Richard Muhammad is visiting Haiti for a firsthand look at conditions in the country and as a follow up to reporting earlier this year. He is traveling with the Haiti Support Project and a 16-member delegation that includes Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president...
UN Secretary Gen. Annan ‘hocked’ by Israeli attack on UN Observer post, at least 4 dead
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Haitian American to design the UN slave trade memorial
By Saeed Shabazz-Staff Writer- ‘Ark of Return': Telling the stories of 15 million slaves in a United Nations permanent memorial UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Rodney Leon, the son of Haitian immigrant parents, was chosen from a field of 310 entrants in 83 nations to design the permanent memorial at the United Nations remembering the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its African victims. A...
Tunisian group accuses authorities of mass expulsions of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa
TUNIS, Tunisia—Migration activists are sounding the alarm about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests in Tunisia, where authorities are seeing more migrants arrive for attempted Mediterranean crossings from the North African nation to Europe. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights on Jan. 8 accused the government of waging a campaign of repression against migrants at the expense of humanitarian...
Junior doctors in England launch fresh strike over pay dispute
Junior doctors in England staged a strike in the run-up to Christmas in an attempt to force the government to make a fresh effort to improve their pay and working conditions. The two-phase nine-day strike, which started on Dec. 20 at 0700 GMT (1:00 a.m. CST), is the longest industrial action by the junior doctors yet. UK health bosses say the...
Widespread Muslim skepticism of U.S. as democracy advocate
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS) - Despite continuous assurances that the United States favors democratic rule during the 18-month-old “Arab Spring,” majorities or pluralities in six predominantly Muslim countries see Washington as an obstacle to their democratic aspirations, according to a new survey. Indeed, Saudi Arabia is generally seen as a stronger advocate of democracy than the U.S. in all six nations,...
Israel tried to influence UK courts against pro-Palestine activists: Report
Israeli embassy officials in London have reportedly attempted to exert influence on legal proceedings involving pro-Palestine protesters. Citing documents, disclosed in a freedom of information request by the UK-based protest network Palestine Action, The Guardian reported on August 20 that the officials from the mission of the Tel Aviv regime had pressed for Douglas Wilson, the director general of the UK attorney general’s...
How months of tensions led to Sudan’s coup
CAIRO—The military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir. The move comes after months of mounting tensions between the military and civilian authorities. Protesters are in the streets denouncing the takeover, and troops have opened fire, killing some of...
Libya elected to UN Security Council un-opposed
Progression towards United States of Africa continues (FCN, 07-21-2005)Mandela blasts U.S., Britain for failure to life Libyan sanctions (FCN, 03-26-2001) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The 192-nation UN General Assembly elected the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the 15-member Security Council on Oct. 16, with no public objections from the United States or Britain. The U.S. had successfully blocked Libya's...
Corpse desecration latest crisis for U.S. military
- Afghanistan - 10 Years of Failure & Oppression WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as top U.S. defense officials and leaders of NATO combat forces in Afghanistan have condemned a video posted on YouTube and other Internet sites showing what appears to be American forces in Afghanistan urinating on dead Taliban soldiers as “despicable” some political commentators and...