Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has expressed the Islamic Republic’s concern over escalating tension between Syria and Turkey, urging an immediate end to the ongoing conflict. “The Islamic Republic of Iran is concerned about tension in relations between neighboring and Muslim states, including Turkey and Syria, and is ready to take major steps for the [...]
Iran Concerned Over Escalating Tension Between Syria And Turkey
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Georgia: Is Tbilisi Setting Political Benchmark For Azerbaijan, Armenia?
By Shain Abbasov and Marianna Grigoryan Last time, Georgians did it via revolution. This time, political change came through the ballot box. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s concession of Georgia’s October 1 parliamentary election to his political foes, the Georgian Dream coalition headed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, is giving two of the country’s neighbors, Armenia and [...]
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Can Obama’s Foreign Policies Be Any Worse? – OpEd
Other than the sound bites on the TV news, I doubt that most people have actually read Mitt Romney’s Monday speech at the Virginia Military Institute. It was extraordinary and demonstrated a grasp of the many regions of the world that pose problems for their citizens, their neighbors, and, in some cases, the whole world. [...]
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Can Arabs And Chinese Save Swiss Tourist Industry?
By Sophie Douez For decades, Swiss hotels and mountain resorts have been able to rely on Swiss and visiting Germans to fill their coffers. But each year there are fewer Europeans. Can visitors from emerging markets make up the difference? On a warm sunny day in late summer, it is easy to see why sleepy [...]
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Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu Announces Early Elections To Form New Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early elections on Tuesday. Netanyahu said in a televised statement he had reached the conclusion that his coalition government would not be able to agree on a national budget, adding that he has “therefore decided, for the benefit of Israel, to hold elections now and as quickly as possible.” [...]
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India’s Strategic And Foreign Policy Update For The Next Decade – Analysis
In the Fourth Conference of Indian Heads of Missions held in New Delhi – last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna and foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said three things in common. During the event that was attended by 117 Ambassadors from across the world- including top policy makers and strategic thinkers – [...]
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US Must Dissociate Pakistan From Taliban Or Face A Historic Defeat – OpEd
The end of the US troops surge, the increasing insider attacks on Western forces and the ongoing downward spiral of insecurity across Afghanistan, have pushed this war-torn country into a military-political deadlock. The Western exit strategy—to end combat by the end of 2014 and leaving the Kabul regime to take hold of Afghan national security [...]
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The Racist Brutality Of Stop-And-Frisk – OpEd
Every day, New York city police commit 1,800 stop-and-frisk searches. Substantially less than one percent turn up guns—the supposed justification for the searches, and the carrying of which is protected by the Bill of Rights. In my piece for the Huffington Post, I noted the racial disparities and threats to civil liberties posed. New audio [...]
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Security Concerns As Afghanistan Approaches 2014 – Analysis
By Richard Johnson Afghanistan is hurtling toward a devastating political crisis as the government prepares to take full control of security when U.S. and NATO forces withdraw from the war-torn country in 2014, says a new report by the prestigious International Crisis Group. “There is a real risk that the regime in Kabul could collapse [...]
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US Government Sues Wells Fargo Over Alleged Mortgage Fraud
The US government has filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit against Wells Fargo, the nation’s fourth largest bank, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday. “As the complaint alleges, yet another major bank has engaged in a longstanding and reckless trifecta of deficient training, deficient underwriting and deficient disclosure, all while relying [...]
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Egyptian Soccer Fan’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Gathers Steam – Analysis
A campaign by militant Egyptian soccer fans to root out corruption gathered steam this week with the slapping of a travel ban on and the freezing of assets of the chairman of crowned Cairo club Al Ahly SC by the country’s Illicit Gains Authority (IGA). Hassan Hamdy, who until recently doubled as head of the [...]
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NATO Ready To Defend Turkey
By Al Pessin NATO’s secretary general says the alliance is prepared to defend Turkey against attacks from Syria if necessary. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance is prepared to act, but he hopes it will not have to do so. “We have all plans in place to protect and defend Turkey, but we [...]
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US And Israel Prepare To Strike Iran – Report
The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli authorities for the US to intervene in a rumored Iranian plan to procure a nuke, [...]
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Bosnia’s Transitional Justice Strategy Requires Political Support – Analysis
Two years after it was commissioned, Bosnia and Herzegovina has a draft Transitional Justice Strategy; however doubts persist as to whether the document will be adopted, despite widespread acceptance of its importance. By Denis Dzidic A draft of the Transitional Justice Strategy – the aim of which is to help right injustices and heal the [...]
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NATO Invasion Of Syria: Coming Soon, Rated X – OpEd
By John Robles The stage is set, the NATO forces are in position and authorization has been given, now all it will take is a little spark to ignite the powder keg that is the Middle East. The West needs a middle-man, a reason to invade Syria, and Turkey is that tool. Statements by both [...]
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Greece Could Be Offered 2-Year Debt Respite
(EurActiv) — Eurozone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund held a “thorough and robust” debate on Greece on Monday, with lenders considering giving the country two more years to reach its budget deficit reduction targets. Ministers spent more than two hours discussing an upcoming report by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and [...]
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Former Serbian Minister Faces Corruption Probe
By Igor Jovanovic Serbia’s parliament on Monday (October 8th) annulled the immunity of former cabinet minister Oliver Dulic amid a corruption investigation that he and his Democratic Party colleagues call “political persecution.” Dulic, who lost his cabinet post when the Socialist Party came to power in this year’s elections, is under investigation for allegedly sidestepping [...]
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Algeria, Mauritania Discuss Mali Crisis
By Jemal Oumar Algerian Maghreb and African Affairs Minister Abdelkader Messahel paid a visit to Nouakchott Sunday (October 7th) to co-ordinate a unified position on Islamist-controlled northern Mali. After a lengthy meeting with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Messahel said that Mauritania and Algeria seek a political solution in Mali with respect to the prospect [...]
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Morocco: Concert For Tolerance Thrills
By Hassan Benmehdi The city of Agadir lit up once again Saturday (October 6th) with the Concert for Tolerance on the city’s beautiful beach, celebrating intercultural dialogue and respect for others. Artists of all faiths and from all over the world made the trip just to partake in the event. Ahmed Soltane, a young native [...]
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Hidden Health Crisis Facing Palestinian Refugees
New research has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. UK medical journal The Lancet has published a series of abstracts drawn from a meeting of public health researchers, The Lancet-Palestine Health Alliance, in Beirut in March 2012. The Alliance aims to “strengthen and expand [...]
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