By James Gundun In early January 2011, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton landed in Sana’a to manage the autocratic habits of a useful ally in the war against al-Qaeda. Having warned other allies (Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria) of a youth bulge prior to the Arab uprisings, the Secretary now found herself just above [...]
With ‘Friends’ Like Yemen’s, No Enemies Needed – OpEd
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Out Of The Spotlight, Moroccan Islamic Party Promotes Interfaith Dialogue – OpEd
By Hind Al-Subai Al-Idrisi Like other countries in the Middle East, Morocco witnessed a popular movement that fell short of a revolution. But citizen demand for government reform did lead to a number of changes. These changes included a referendum over a new constitution, limiting the Moroccan monarch’s authority, as well as elections, which led [...]
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Government Debt And Deficits Are Not The Problem: Private Debt Is – OpEd
There are two quite different perspectives in the set of speeches at this conference. Many on our morning panels – Steve Keen, William Greider, and earlier Yves Smith and Robert Kuttner – have warned about the economy being strapped by debt. The debt we are talking about is private-sector debt. But most officials this afternoon [...]
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Senior Official: US Military Will Maintain Low-key Africa Presence
By Jim Garamone U.S. military efforts in Africa will remain low-key and “small footprint,” and will be geared toward building relationships with African nations, a senior Defense Department official said yesterday at the Pentagon. U.S. Africa Command is maturing and running a variety of exercises and operations with allies to continue the trend, the official [...]
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International Sanctions: Iran Feels The Psychological Impact – Analysis
Struggling to maintain its place in Asia’s top tier, Iranian soccer is a reflection of a country laboring under the burden of a repressive political regime and not only the economic but increasingly also the psychological effect of international isolation and punishing sanctions. The psychological wear and tear is universally visible. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, [...]
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White Smoke Rises Signaling New Pope Elected
To the cheering of crowds white smoke has appeared above the Vatican chimney, signaling a new Pope has been chosen by cardinals. As the white smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel, the bells of St. Peter basillica tolled out ‘Habemus papem”, meaning the Catholic Church now has a new Pope. The white smoke was released [...]
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In North Korea’s Acts Something More Than Meets The Eye? – Analysis
By Bhaskar Roy A booster rocket test last December expected to be a prototype of a long range missile, a third nuclear test in February with a veiled threat for a fourth test soon, threatening to attack the USA; cutting the hot line with South Korea; withdrawing from the 1953 Armistice that brought an end [...]
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Marines: An Over-Anxiety To Oblige The Italian Government – Analysis
An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen wrongly mistaking them for pirates in an incident that took place on February 15, 2012, has created suspicions in public mind on the [...]
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Don’t Eat Snow, Chief Public Health Official Tells Russians
Russia’s chief public health official Gennady Onishchenko on Wednesday advised Russians not to eat snow or too many pancakes. “In essence, snow is distilled water. Salts and contaminants have been boiled out of it,” Onishchenko, who heads the consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said at a press conference in Moscow. “But our air is polluted with [...]
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The Myth Of The Surge – OpEd
“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. It’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.” – President Barack Obama One of the enduring myths of the Iraq War is that George W. Bush’s “surge” of 30,000 US troops into Iraq in 2007, reduced the number of attacks on US troops and effectively [...]
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Argentine Cardinal Named Pope Francis To Lead Catholic Church
The new Roman Catholic pope elected Wednesday in Vatican City is Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires. The new pope chose the name Francis. Earlier, white smoke emerged from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel and bells pealed in Vatican City Wednesday evening, signaling that a new pope has been chosen to lead the [...]
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Pentagon Creates 13 Offensive Cyber Teams For Worldwide Attacks
The head of the United States Cyber Command says the US is developing 40 new teams of cyber-agents that will both protect America’s critical infrastructure from hackers and as well as launch attacks against the country’s adversaries. Gen. Keith Alexander, who leads both the Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, told the US Senate [...]
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Jesuit Cardinal Bergoglio Of Argentina Becomes Pope Francis
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was Wednesday announced Pope Francis I, the first Latin American pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church. The archbishop of Buenos Aires is a Jesuit intellectual who travels by bus and has a practical approach to poverty: when he was appointed a cardinal, Bergoglio persuaded hundreds of Argentinians not [...]
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Obama May Scrap Visit To Ramallah
US President Barack Obama could skip Ramallah during his upcoming visit to the region, a Palestinian Authority source said Wednesday. Obama will meet President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem and will spend only four hours in the West Bank during the trip, which will include a visit to the Nativity Church, said the government official, who [...]
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Iran: Reformist Group Calls On Former Presidents To Run
The Society of Seminary Teachers and Researchers of Qom, a reformist organization, has called on former presidents Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to run in the coming presidential election. The Kaleme website reports that the society of reformist clerics issued a statement on Wednesday March 13, saying: “In view of the current national situation, [...]
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Saudi Arabia Executes Seven
Saudi authorities executed seven young men ages 20 to 24 on the morning of March 13, 2013, allegedly for an armed robbery in 2005. At least two of the seven were under 18 at the time of the alleged crime. Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry carried out the sentences despite defendants’ claims that security force interrogators [...]
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The Political Future Of Pakistan – Analysis
By Salman Rafi Sheikh It was the trauma of political subjugation that drove the Muslims away from the idea of a united Hindustan. It was only after a long and persistent social suppression that the idea of a sovereign and independent Pakistan captured the imagination of the Muslims of the sub-continent. As such, the idea [...]
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Sri Lanka: They Hold Up Half The Sky – OpEd
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the two leaders and authors of what has now become an international best-seller that has been called a “brutal awakening” state that “Just as slavery was the defining struggle of the nineteenth century and totalitarianism that of the twentieth, the fight to end the oppression of women and girls [...]
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Pope Francis: Cardinals Went To End Of World To Find Me
Pope Francis began his first words to the Church by saying that the cardinals “went to the end of the world” to find the new Bishop of Rome. “Brothers and Sisters, good evening. You know that the charge of the conclave was to give a bishop of Rome. “It would seem that my brothers went [...]
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Tunisia Lawmakers Approve New Government
By Yasmin Najjar Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly on Wednesday (March 13th) approved Prime Minister Ali Larayedh’s government by a wide margin. One-hundred-thirty-nine deputies voted in favour of the new government, while 45 voted against it, TAP reported. At the Tuesday session, Larayedh outlined the four priorities for his incoming administration. The first priority is to [...]
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