September, 2010

• 30 September

  A VOICE BEHIND A VEIL, By Khadijah Natalie Arbee

  I am a muslim women. I wear the niqaab (face veil). I’m one of those to whom the new law in France would apply. I’m one of the ones being discussed by politicians, human rights groups and the media. I’m one of those whom many feel the need to liberate. I’m one of those you may think is oppressed. I’m one of …

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• 30 September

  You Promised Me Democracy

  You promised me democracy, But look what you have done to me. You robbed my past, and future stole, and a present left to me, crushed beyond a mending hope. Ten years before invading me, you broke my dams and bridges bombed, and power plants, and sewage lines, and water mains, You fed the plants with pesticide, The baby food …

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• 29 September

  Kingdom slams UN double standard, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal

  

  NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia has urged the United Nations to implement the principles of its charter effectively without adopting double standard. It also criticized the use of veto power by some permanent members to block the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions. Addressing the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal emphasized the need …

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• 29 September

  UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan, By Gareth Porter

  The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of …

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• 29 September

  Income Gap Widens: Census Finds Record Gap Between Rich And Poor, By HOPE YEN

  As the recession shook Americans' confidence last year, new figures show that weddings for people 18 and older dropped to the lowest point in over a hundred years. A broad array of new Census Bureau data released Tuesday documents the far-reaching impact of a business slump that experts say technically ended in June 2009: a surging demand for food stamps, considerably …

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• 28 September

  Israel accused of war crimes by expert panel – Chris McGreal

  

    NEW YORK: A United Nations panel of human rights experts has accused Israel of war crimes through wilful killing, unnecessary brutality and torture in its ''clearly unlawful'' assault on a ship attempting to break the blockade of Gaza in May, in which nine Turkish activists died. The report by three experts appointed by the UN's Human Rights Council described the …

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• 28 September

  China-Japan conflict worsens, By Ameen Izzadeen

  

    What will be the repercussions when two giants clash? China, the world's number two economic power, and Japan, which had until recently held the number two position, are on a collision course and the intricacies of the disputes and their ramifications make one wonder whether a new bipolar world, similar to the one that had existed for some five …

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