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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 …
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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 …
Read More »George Galloway Wins Shock Election in Bradford, U.K. By Agence France-Presse
BRADFORD – Britain’s mainstream parties were reeling Friday after firebrand George Galloway, a fierce critic of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a sensational return to parliament. The Scottish politician becomes his Respect party’s only lawmaker after crushing his former party, Labour, in Thursday’s by-election in the ethnically mixed city of Bradford in northern England. Speaking ahead of a …
Read More »For nuclear security beyond Seoul, eradicate land-based ‘doomsday’ missiles By David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg
America's 450 launch-ready land-based nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are the opposite of a deterrent to attack. In fact, their very deployment has the potential to launch World War III and precipitate human extinction – as a result of a false alarm. We’re not exaggerating. President Obama and other world leaders gathered at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, this …
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