The UN is considering deploying up to 10,000 peacekeepers in Syria as an emergency measure, reported Russian news agency Ria Novosti, citing sources in the UN. According to the report by Ria Novosti, the UN is putting together a contingency plan, should the Security Council give the go-ahead for intervention in the 21-month conflict. The [...]
UN Considers Deploying Peacekeepers To Syria
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Narrating Amarnath Yatra: A Sociological Walk – Analysis
Last year, I visited Baltal during the iconic Amarnath Yatra season for a general sociological observation of the Yatra mechanism, the pattern of pilgrim influx, government arrangements at place and social relations shaped up between locals, local police, security forces and more importantly the pilgrims. Framing narrative as social inquiry in exploring the Sociology of [...]
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Chuck Hagel: The Best For The Pentagon – OpEd
The rumor mill is cocking in Washington D. C. The former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel should become the next Secretary of Defense. If US President Barack Obama will choose him, it would be a wise decision. Whether he gets his candidate approved by the US Senate has to be seen. It seems that something is to [...]
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BiH, Serbia War Crimes Protocol Sparks Debate
By Anes Alic After almost two years of negotiations, authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have green-lighted the signing of a protocol on war crimes co-operation between the BiH State Prosecutor’s Office and its Serbian counterpart. The agreement paves the way for Serbia and BiH to eliminate parallel investigations and facilitates the mutual transfer of [...]
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The Sandy Hook Suicide Attack – OpEd
In one particular but quite significant way, Adam Lanza’s death was a typical American suicide: he shot himself Although only 5 percent of Americans who attempt suicide shoot themselves, 50 percent of suicides are caused by firearms. Guns are simply much more efficient than most other methods through which people try to end their own [...]
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Castro: Doctors ‘Optimistic’ On Chavez
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said “doctors are optimistic in their fight” to restore Hugo Chavez’s health, as the Venezuelan president recuperates at a clinic in Havana from a fourth operation to remove cancerous tissue, the Cuban media reported on Sunday. “Hugo Chavez has inspired and earned the respect of the entire world. Everyone, even [...]
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Israeli Settlements, Unsettling Realities – OpEd
By Jamal Kanj A day after the UN vote to upgrade Palestine’s status at the UN, the right-wing Israeli government responded by adding 3,500 illegal Jewish-only homes in occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel was blatantly defying more than two- thirds of the international community, which recognized Palestine as a state on the very [...]
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Burma Breaks Reform Promise By Opening New Offensive In Kachin Frontline – OpEd
By Zin Linn Burma Army strategic warfare against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)’s HQ Liaza this time seems to be a decisive military operation. There are fresh reports from Kachin battle-frontline across the Internet as well as social media and the on-line newspapers constantly. Besides, people throughout the country [...]
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Pakistan: Five Militants Killed In Gunbattle
(RFE/RL) — Police say five militants were killed in a gunbattle in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, one day after an attack on an airport in the city left at least four civilians dead and more than 40 injured. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the December 15 suicide and rocket attack on the airport saying [...]
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Counter-Radicalisation In Indonesia: Fighting A Mutating Organism – Analysis
Terrorist cells still exist in Indonesia despite the Indonesian security authorities having achieved success in their counter-terrorism operations. Counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation efforts need to be adapted to changing challenges. By Adhi Priamarizki ALTHOUGH THE Jemaah Islamiyah network in Indonesia has been mortally wounded due to disruption by the security authorities, terrorism is still a threat [...]
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China’s New Leadership: How Reformist Will It Be? – Analysis
The CCP’s leadership transition raises more questions about the direction of the new generation of party leaders. Led by Xi Jinping, the new leadership would have much to do to live up to expectations of political and social reform. By Liu Liu and Benjamin Ho THE HANDOVER of China’s leadership to President-in-waiting Xi Jinping has [...]
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Will The Coming Elections In Ecuador Be Free And Fair? – Analysis
By Claudia M. López Costa In the wake of next February’s Ecuadorian presidential election, and less than a month before the official start of the campaign, the rules of the game set by the reform to the electoral law remain questionable. The concern over the substance of the new electoral law stems mainly from Article [...]
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Obama Visits School Massacre Town In Connecticut
US President Barack Obama arrived on Sunday at the site of the recent shooting rampage at an elementary school in a small town in Connecticut that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. Obama met with victims’ families and spoke at an interfaith vigil at the town’s high school. “We can’t tolerate this [...]
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Thailand: Rebels Escalate Killings Of Teachers, Says HRW
Separatist insurgents in Thailand’s southern border provinces should immediately end all attacks on teachers and schools, Human Rights Watch said today. In the most recent attack, on December 11, 2012, ethnic Malay Muslim insurgents entered a school in Pattani province at lunch hour and summarily executed two ethnic Thai Buddhist teachers. During the past six [...]
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Ban Ki-moon: Protecting All Members Of Our Human Family – OpEd
By United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon I am a great champion of the power of youth to change the world, but this week I celebrate a 64-year old responsible for ushering in momentous progress. Not a person, but a document that was born in December 1948 and forever altered the view of how we treat [...]
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Mauritania Backs Mali Heritage Preservation
By Bakari Gueye President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania is calling for a swift resolution of the Mali crisis in order to “spare the shared heritage of mankind”. “Today, our main concern is the fate of the cultural heritage in the regions of northern Mali, particularly in Timbuktu,” the Mauritanian president said December 11th [...]
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After Rehman Malik’s Visit To India: The Continuing Farce – OpEd
There is no need for one to be surprised by the trail of controversies and anger created by Mr. Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, during his three-day visit to India from December 14, 2012. What he sought to convey was that India cannot escape its share of the blame for the 26/11 terrorist strikes. That [...]
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Blackness Gestapo Attack On RGIII Typical – OpEd
RGIII (Robert Griffin III), superstar quarterback of the Washington Redskins is the latest black under attack by the Blackness Gestapo. The Blackness Gestapo are racists, black and white, who troll the airways keeping blacks in-check, faithful to their blackness. They believe to be authentically black, one must behave and think in certain ways. Blackness Gestapo [...]
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Police Arrest Man For Threatening Elementary Schools In Los Angeles, Weapons Recovered
Police in Los Angeles, California have arrested a man that they say made criminal threats against area elementary schools. The identity of the suspect, apprehended Sunday afternoon, has not been released. On Monday, however, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the individual was still in custody after making online threats. “Apparently on Facebook, he [...]
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Russia Duma To Consider US Adoptions Ban
The lower house of the Russian parliament is likely to endorse an amendment banning the adoption of Russian children into US families, Deputy Speaker Sergei Neverov said on Monday. The State Duma on Friday gave its preliminary approval to a draft law penalizing US nationals involved in violating Russian citizens’ rights, touted as Moscow’s response [...]
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