While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force by federal agents to enforce unjust and unconstitutional laws is one of the major, albeit overlooked, threats to liberty. Too often Americans are victimized by government force simply for engaging [...]
Ron Paul: Federal Agents Should Be Disarmed – OpEd
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Malaysia-Singapore Connectivity: Increased Rail, Road And Sea Links – Analysis
Malaysia and Singapore are set to enter a new era of connectivity and cooperation with the agreement to build a high speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Together with regional-level joint projects, it will give both countries greater stakes in each other’s progress. By Mushahid Ali THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the leaders of Malaysia [...]
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Al-Khatib Plays With Wolves – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Everyone I’ve met has tried to make excuses for Sheikh Moaz Al-Khatib, leader of the Syrian National Coalition, ever since he attempted to swim against the opposition tide by calling for negotiations with the regime, on favorable terms. However, as expected, the regime has responded by manipulating both Al-Khatib and his [...]
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Pope Benedict Allows Earlier Conclave, Extends Secrecy Oath
By Estefania Aguirre Benedict XVI has changed Church law allowing cardinals to vote earlier for the new Pope, provided that they are all in Rome. “Pope Benedict XVI allows for the College of Cardinals to begin the Conclave before fifteen days have passed from the beginning of the sede vacante, providing that all voting cardinals [...]
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Can Trains And Subways Be Better Protected From Terrorism?
(CORDIS) — The terrorist attacks on commuter trains in Madrid in 2004 and the London underground the following year highlighted a particular vulnerability of public transport. How can you put in place the kind of security controls used to detect explosives at airports in rail and metro networks? The simple truth is that airport-style security [...]
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Re-Examining Brain Disorders
(CORDIS) — Brain disorders, including developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, represent an enormous burden in terms of human suffering and economic cost. Many brain disorders are chronic and incurable, and can be accompanied by disabilities that may continue for years or even decades. This means that the overall disease burden from these disorders is much [...]
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Top UK Cardinal Keith O’Brien To Step Down Amid Flurry Of Scandalous Allegations
In another blow to the Catholic Church, which is trying to shore up its global prestige, Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien is about to step down amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards priests since the 1980s. Now the Vatican is to confirm his resignation, which will bar Keith O’Brien from electing the next pope at the [...]
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BP Gulf Oil Spill Trial Opens With $17 Billion At Stake
The trial against British oil giant BP began Monday in the United States, where a federal judge is set to determine whether the company was “grossly negligent” in its disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is facing $17 billion in possible fines should the judge rule that it was grossly negligent [...]
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Tibetan Emulates Cousin In Fatal Burning Protest
A Tibetan man protested against Chinese rule by burning himself to death on Monday at the gates of a monastery in Gansu province, emulating his cousin’s self-immolation in the same area more than two months ago, sources said. Monks at Shitsang Monastery and other local Tibetans in the Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’s Luchu (Luqu) county [...]
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Second Meeting On Georgia-Russia Relations To Be Held In Prague
(RFE/RL) — A second meeting on the normalization of Russia-Georgia relations is expected to be held in Prague on March 1. The Georgian prime minister’s special envoy for ties with Russia, Zurab Abashidze, announced on February 25 that the meeting would take place. He said he would meet with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin [...]
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Spiderman’s Webbing Would Be Strong Enough To Stop A Moving Train, Say Physics Students
In Spiderman 2, the superhero uses his webbing to bring a runaway train to a standstill moments before it plummets over the end of the track. But could a material with the strength and toughness of spiders’ web really stop four crowded subway cars? According to University of Leicester physics students, the answer is yes. [...]
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Egypt: Amend Draft Demonstrations Law, Says HRW
The government-proposed draft law in Egypt concerning public demonstrations would severely limit the right to peaceful public assembly and is open to abuse by police, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the president and the Justice Ministry. The letter outlines concerns with the draft law in light of Egypt’s human rights obligations [...]
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The Making And Unmaking Of Iran Sanctions
For some, a tool to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions, for Tehran an illegitimate intrusion into domestic affairs: what is clear is that sanctions have, as yet, failed in diminishing dangerous tensions on the core question of whether Iran’s nuclear goals are military or merely civilian. Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions, [...]
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Gays And The Catholic Church – OpEd
Is there a “gay lobby” involved in blackmail that resulted in the decision of the pope to resign? No serious observer in or out of the Vatican currently accepts this account. But that hardly means there isn’t still a gay subculture in the Catholic Church. Father Donald B. Cozzens warned us many years ago that [...]
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The Permanent Crisis In Venezuela – OpEd
By Jaime Daremblum According to a leading Spanish newspaper, Hugo Chávez’s doctors have told his family that the cancer-stricken autocrat will not recover from his illness and will not be able to resume the Venezuelan presidency. Perhaps that’s why his return to Venezuela was a relatively subdued affair. Chávez reportedly arrived from Cuba—where he has now received four surgeries—in [...]
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Turkish-Serbian Relations: A Rising Strategic Axis In The Western Balkans – Analysis
The strategic relations between Turkey and Serbia is an important case of how a century of negative peace could transform via economic cooperation and development. By Dr. Doga Ulas Eralp Turkey and Serbia have emerged as two important partners that transform political tensions in the Western Balkans for good. During a recent visit to Turkey, [...]
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Libya: Ansar Al-Sharia Returns To Benghazi
By Asmaa Elourfi Five months after Benghazi residents drove out extremist militias from the city centre, members of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia brigade are now returning. Patrolling hospitals and manning checkpoints, Ansar al-Sharia elements are back at their old posts. The Islamist militia was driven out of its main bases in eastern Libya’ s main [...]
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Kyrgyzstan: Will International Law Protect Uzbek Imam From Extradition?
By Felix Corley The wife of Uzbek former imam Khabibullo Sulaimanov has spoken of her concern for her husband, detained since October 2012 by Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Committee (NSC) secret police. “I’m very worried that they could extradite him back to Uzbekistan,” Albina Karankina told Forum 18 News Service from the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on [...]
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Turkey’s Difficult Choice In Palestine, Israel – OpEd
An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably underway, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment of the 1990’s, the revamped relationship is likely to be more guarded and will pose a greater challenge to Turkey rather than to Israel. Israeli media referenced a report by Turkish newspaper Radikal with much interest, regarding secret talks between Turkey [...]
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‘Argo’ Spurs Support For Bill To Compensate U.S. Embassy Hostages
(RFE/RL) — A U.S. congressman plans to introduce new legislation that would financially compensate American embassy staffers who were taken hostage for 444 days in Tehran 34 years ago. Representative Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) says he wants to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the film “Argo,” which depicts the 1979 hostage crisis and which won the [...]
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