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Young people are using social networking to drastically alter power dynamics, speak out against human rights abuses and end oppression. Credit:UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6, 2012 (IPS) – In his keynote address to the Global Colloquium of University Presidents at New York's Columbia University last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the growing power exercised by …
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U.N. Warns of Staggering Urbanisation in Asia, Africa By Thalif Deen
Asia and Africa will account for a hefty 86 percent of all increases in the world's urban population in the next four decades, the United Nations said in a report released Wednesday. Africa's urban population will increase from the current 414 million to over 1.2 billion by 2050, while Asia will increase from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion. The largest …
Read More »U.S. Funding Cuts in UNESCO More Audible than Visible
IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA, Sri Lanka's Envoy in Paris UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3, 2012 (IPS) – When the 194-member General Conference of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was on the verge of admitting Palestine as a full-fledged member of the Paris-based U.N. agency last year, the United States warned against it …
Read More »What Our Media Don’t Tell Us About The Middle East By Antony Loewenstein
US government officials requested that an American private security firm contact Syrian opposition figures in Turkey to see “how they can help in regime change,” the CEO of one of these firms told Stratfor in a company email obtained by WikiLeaks and Al-Akhbar. James F. Smith, former director of Blackwater, is currently the Chief Executive of SCG International, a private …
Read More »Obama Gives Green Light for Punishing Sanctions on Iran By Bill Van Auken
President Barack Obama has issued the green light for punishing new US economic sanctions directed at forcing the Iranian government to submit to Western pressure over its nuclear program by starving the country of oil revenues. These new sanctions, which go into effect on June 28, aim to impose a warlike blockade of the Iranian economy by penalizing any government …
Read More »War on Iran? It is too soon to reminisce about Iraq, let alone have a repeat By Marina Hyde
The Class of 2002 are beating the drums on Iran, failing to learn from a war that’s not yet history. Well, it shows chutzpah The thing about a supertanker is that at least you can turn it round. It takes a while, by all accounts, but you have to think any such vessel has the turning circle of a London …
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