Visitors: 315 (RPI) House and Senate Republican leaders McConnell and Ryan are praising President Trump’s missile strike on Syria last week in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack on civilians, while when President Obama proposed the same thing in 2013 they strongly opposed the plan. Meanwhile, the mainstream media and even many “progressives” are turning […]
Visitors: 375 New Delhi, 09th April 2017 Khudai Khidmatgar, a social organisation organised a condolence meeting and a candle vigil in front of Gandhi Samadhi, Rajghat, New Delhi, for the brutal killing of 55 year old muslim man Pehlu Khan, who was transporting cattle has died after being beaten by a mob of about 200 cow protection vigilantes […]
Visitors: 265 [themify_quote]The U.S. does not have to choose between backing the Assad regime or extremist groups. There is another choice: Syria’s homegrown pro-democracy resistance.[/themify_quote] After the release of horrifying images of Syrian civilians killed by chemical attacks on Tuesday, there were predictable demands that the United States should “take action” against the regime of […]
Visitors: 327 [themify_quote]A Consumer Fraud Lawyer’s mini Primer[/themify_quote] The U.S./NATO line 5 Feb 2017 If you try to follow events in the mainstream media, you may have noticed that they routinely refer to Syrian President Bashar al Assad as a “brutal dictator”. Assad is supposed to have responded to peaceful protests with repressive violence and […]
Visitors: 312 Rochard Falk In early morning darkness on April 7th the United States fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian al-Shayrat Airfield from two American destroyers stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean. It described the targets as Syrian fighter jets, radar, fuel facilities used for the aircraft. It asserted prior notification of Russian authorities, […]
Visitors: 292 A rush to judgement? A one-off attack? Or maybe the start of a major military offensive in Syria? Scholars, analysts and journalists offer their opinions on the Trump administration’s decision to attack the Syrian military on Friday [7 Apr 2017]. Rick Sterling, investigative journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement “The attack […]
Visitors: 283 Stephen Zunes Yes! Magazine [themify_quote]There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.[/themify_quote] The U.S. bombing of Syria’s Al Shayrat air base has brought more death and destruction to that country and is unlikely to deter additional war crimes by the Syrian regime. It […]
Visitors: 304 Robert Parry, Consortium News [themify_box] Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com).[/themify_box] [themify_quote]The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, […]
Visitors: 377 4 April 2017 – (UN) -Stressing that the rates of incarceration for Australia’s indigenous peoples have reached astounding, “tsunami” proportions, a United Nations human rights expert today called on the authorities to respect the peoples’ right to self-determination, to full and effective participation in society, and to step up the fight against racism. […]
Visitors: 280 Richard Falk, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck – New Statesman [themify_quote]Three Former UN Insiders on the Future of the World’s Most Ambitious Organisation[/themify_quote] 15 Mar 2017 – US President Donald Trump is ardently embracing a toxic form of messianic nationalism, while demeaning those who oppose him as corrupt, and dishonest enemies. His […]
Visitors: 216 On 5 April 2017, the European Union and the United Nations will hold a joint conference on the future of Syria and its region. “Civil Society” is invited to participate, but it is not clear in advance if the Brussels meeting will be a “fund raising” one, in which case most non-governmental organizations […]
Visitors: 334 I recently had a dialogue with a person who had emailed me about a friend of hers who had been mis-treated for years by drug-prescribing psychiatrists. The psychiatrists – and their alarming and illogical drugging – had made him worse and worse and eventually totally disabled over the years. Because of the high […]
Visitors: 307 L’Alfàs del Pi, Spain Female emancipation, patriarchic family decline and femicide are with us, the femicide according to UN[i] particularly in Guatemala, Mexico and Australia-Canada-South Africa-USA. And here in Spain women are also killed by (ex)husbands and (ex)lovers: 44 by “their” men in 2016, 60 in 2015[ii], first two months of 2017 maybe […]
Visitors: 341 ROME, Mar 27 2017 (IPS) – For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Slavery is, nevertheless, far from being just a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims […]
Visitors: 251 Rene Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues. [themify_hr color=’red’] On Friday 24 March 2017, the 47-member UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution without […]
Visitors: 262 PFF, The Pacific Freedom Forum The Pacific Freedom Forum is a regional and global online network of Pacific media colleagues, with the specific intent of raising awareness and advocacy of the right of Pacific people to enjoy freedom of expression and be served by a free and independent media. We believe in the critical […]
Visitors: 264 The Cold War ended by an agreement that the USSR leaves Eastern Europe and the USA does not enter the area. What the USA did is treason, like Sykes-Picot. NATO expanded from 16 to 28: Bill Clinton added Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary; George W. Bush the Baltic Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria; […]
Visitors: 257 [themify_hr color=”red”] The Melanesian Indigenous Land Defense Alliance (MILDA) is alarmed that land registration is again being pushed by the World Bank, this time through an environmental project managed by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) within Melanesia. The project is asking for the mapping of customary land and resources as […]
Visitors: 323 Irfan Engineer Director, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism [themify_hr color=”red”] In a surprise development, the Supreme Court on 21st March 2017 urged the rival parties in the Ram Janamabhoomi – Babri Masjid (RJBM) case to negotiate and resolve the dispute in a spirit of give and take. The Chief Justice of […]
Visitors: 278 Rosa Dalmiglio was born in Garlasco, Italy. She is a member of the China Council Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe (special art, culture and humanity), which touches the hearts of all people and portrays the strong willpower so encouraging to 60 million Chinese disabled persons. Ms. Dalmiglio is Intermediary Agent of CICE, Centre […]
Visitors: 344 Kuppuswamy Raja Rajan A technologist by qualification (IIT Chennai), a farmer by option and Gandhian activist by conviction. Practicing consultant in Design of Material Handling and Mineral Processing Equipments and Plants. Having a horticultural farm near Chennai. Trying to create awareness by writing articles and books on matters of public interest and welfare. President […]
Visitors: 317 At the end of 1930, India was experiencing disruption on a scale not seen in nearly three quarters of a century — and it was witnessing a level of social movement participation that organizers who challenge undemocratic regimes usually only dream of achieving. A campaign of mass non-cooperation against imperial rule had […]
Visitors: 308 Guy Crequie French POET, WRITER AND ORDINARY PHILOSOPHER UNIVERSAL AMBASSADOR OF PEACE LAUREATE OF THE EUROPEAN AND WORLD ACADEMIES OF CULTURE AND ARTS PRIZE WINNER OF THE ACADEMIES EUROPEAN AND WORLD OF CULTURE AND ARTS [themify_hr color=”red”] Initially, the name of racism does not have of scientific criterion as I low expose it […]
Visitors: 319 Guy Crequie French POET, WRITER AND ORDINARY PHILOSOPHER UNIVERSAL AMBASSADOR OF PEACE LAUREATE OF THE EUROPEAN AND WORLD ACADEMIES OF CULTURE AND ARTS PRIZE WINNER OF THE ACADEMIES EUROPEAN AND WORLD OF CULTURE AND ARTS [themify_hr color=”red”] Initially, the name of racism does not have of scientific criterion as I low expose it […]
Visitors: 291 Rosa Dalmiglio was born in Garlasco, Italy. She is a member of the China Council Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe (special art, culture and humanity), which touches the hearts of all people and portrays the strong willpower so encouraging to 60 million Chinese disabled persons. Ms. Dalmiglio is Intermediary Agent of CICE, Centre […]