U.S. military commanders quietly admitted on Tuesday that reports regarding Taliban attacks declining in Afghanistan in 2012 were false and that when the corrected figures are promulgated the report will show an increase in terrorist attacks against the U.S., NATO, and Afghan targets perpetrated primarily by the Taliban, according to the Defense Department. This latest [...]
Obama Minions Caught Spiking Taliban Attack Statistics – OpEd
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Indonesia: Religious Minorities Targets Of Rising Violence
The Indonesian government is failing to protect the country’s religious minorities from growing religious intolerance and violence, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should respond much more decisively and adopt a “zero tolerance” policy for attacks on religious minority communities. The 107-page report, “In Religion’s Name: Abuses [...]
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Democracy Canadian-Style Part II: At Home – OpEd
Given Canada’s neo-realpolitik internationally, it is no surprise that Canadian domestic affairs are following an identical logic. In the past, Canada appeared to stand apart from such settler colonies as the US and Australia in dealing more fairly with its natives. John Ralston Saul argues for the “originality of the Canadian project”, that contained elements [...]
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Cardinal Says Next Pope Likely To Be Young
By Estefania Aguirre A cardinal from Chile who will be participating in the general meetings leading up to the conclave said that the next Pope will most likely be relatively young. “One of the external characteristics that the Church needs is for a person not very advanced in age to be chosen and this is [...]
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Falkland Islands: U.S. Should Support Right To Self-Determination – OpEd
By Luke Coffey, Theodore R. Bromund, Ph.D. and Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. On March 10–11, the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, will hold a referendum to decide whether to maintain allegiance to Great Britain. The islands are self-governing but maintain the British monarch as their head of state. The referendum is [...]
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Hold US Policymakers To Their Abysmal Record On Foreign Meddling – OpEd
The United States and Saudi Arabia appear to be ramping up aid to the Syrian rebels. Here we go again on the road to debacle. Why? The media never holds anybody to either their predictions or their results–officeholders, politicians, and of course their own pundits. And it’s a good thing for people like Bill Kristol, [...]
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Australia’s National Security Strategy: What Does It Mean To The Region? – Analysis
By Rajaram Panda On 23 January 2013, the Australian government published the country’s National Security Strategy (NSS) policy document. The 58-page Strong and Secure: A Strategy for Australia’s National Security supersedes the one issued by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2008 and is considered a supplement to Australia in the Asian Century, a white paper [...]
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Leszek Sykulski: Poland And Russia Should Seek To Further Normalize Relations – OpEd
Relations between Poland and Russia are gradually returning to normal, which is, in particular, demostrated by mutual steps of the two countries aimed at visa regime facilitation. This is the opinion expressed by Leszek Sykulski, famous Polish political analyst, director of the Czestochowa Institute of Geopolitics, in an interview with news agency “PenzaNews.” “However, just [...]
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U.S. Sees No ‘Imminent Islamic Militant Threat’ In Central Asia
(RFE/RL) — A top official has told a Congressional committee that although the United States sees no “imminent Islamic militant threat to Central Asian states,” the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is looking for opportunities to expand its presence in the region as part of a long-term strategy to broaden its influence. Testifying before the House [...]
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First ‘Space Tourist’ Wants To Send Couple To Mars
By Sasha Horne The world’s first space tourist is hoping to make history again, this time with a mission to Mars. American multimillionaire Dennis Tito, who in 2001 paid a reported $20 million to ride aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), unveiled plans Wednesday for the first manned mission to [...]
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Israel, Turkey Might Be Headed For Reconciliation – OpEd
By Linda Gradstein DESPITE the widespread belief that ties between Israel and Turkey are virtually nonexistent, the Israeli and Turkish officials have, of late, held a series of meetings, the most recent three weeks ago, according to Israeli officials who confirmed media reports in both countries. The goal has been to find a formula for [...]
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Tackling Online Hate Speech In Kenya
By Bernard Koech As the Kenyan government steps up efforts to curb hate speech in the run-up to the March 4 elections, observers say it remains extremely difficult to control what people say online. Internet use in Kenya has doubled every year since 2010. A major problem in combating hate speech on the web is [...]
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Cuba Conceals Cholera Outbreak – Analysis
By Jennifer Aron Media silence in the Caribbean is not necessarily good for Cuba, the island known in and around the world for its health care, tourism, and socialist economy. One should also recall the campaign Cuba had in the 1960s to produce 10 million tons of sugar in which it fell millions of tons [...]
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Indus River: Water Scarcity And The Conflict Between Sindh And Punjab – Analysis
By Amna Razzaq The basic source of irrigation for Pakistan agriculture is the Indus River. Water resources are becoming shorter due to the irregular flow of water in the Indus River. To overcome the problem of water shortage and to meet the water demands of rising populations, the Punjab and the federal governments are in [...]
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Patrick Buchanan: Has The Bell Begun To Toll For China? – OpEd
“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered,” China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, told a closed meeting of party elite in Guangdong province. “Finally all it took was one quiet word from Gorbachev to declare the dissolution of the Soviet [...]
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Let Sri Lankans Worship At Velankanni Shrine: Bishop
A Sri Lankan bishop has said that pilgrims from his country should be allowed to pay a visit to the revered Annai Velankanni shrine in Tamil Nadu. “Pilgrims should not be stopped at all,” said Bishop Thomas Savundaranayagam of Jaffna while referring the incident last week when the Tamil Nadu police turned back 70 Lankan [...]
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Cardinals Set Date For Meetings About Next Pope, To Begin Monday
By David Uebbing On the first day that the Church is without a Pope, Cardinal Angelo Sodano announced that the first general congregation of cardinals will take place next Monday morning. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, made the date public in an official letter sent to the world’s cardinal on [...]
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‘Intrigue’ Persists In Hunt For Antarctic Subglacial Life
By Alexey Eremenko Russian researchers have successfully obtained ice samples from the ancient Lake Vostok in the Antarctic, but said on Friday it would take months to clarify whether life exists in the fossil water below the 3.5-kilometer (2.2 mile) high glacier. “Let’s maintain the intrigue a little longer,” Vladimir Lipenkov, a climatologist at Russia’s [...]
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BBC English-Language Radio Broadcasts Jammed In China
Reporters Without Borders condemned Friday the jamming of the BBC World Service’s English-language shortwave radio broadcasts in China. The BBC issued a statement on February 25th deploring this violation of freedom of information and suggesting that the Chinese government was to blame. “We support the BBC and we urge it to file a legal complaint [...]
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How Will China’s China’s 12th NPC Work Out?
By Bhaskar Roy Predicting China is always a hazardous game. Yet, no one can say that China is not changing. There has been greater transparency of the years and decades. More recently, the society has been allowed to be more active, even question and criticize policies as long as the red line is not crossed. [...]
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