By William Chislett Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned since 1999, called for a truce to a conflict of almost 30 years in which more than 35,000 people have died in a struggle for the establishment of an ethnic Kurdish homeland in the south-east of Turkey. If all goes well this will end one of Europe’s most intractable [...]
Turkey: Outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Chief Calls For Ceasefire In ‘Historic’ Move – Analysis
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Living With The Middle East’s Old-New Security Paradigm – Analysis
By Richard Youngs Attention has gradually turned to the geopolitical implications of the Arab spring. It is broadly recognised that ongoing processes of change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are not just about domestic level political reform but also regional security dynamics. The region appears to be traversing a valley of heated [...]
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“E-Government: Estonia’s Vision”– Analysis
By Mairi Maenniste Living in world 3.0 sounds like an idea from spy ficton but it is also a very realistic term in international security. July 22, 2011 was a day of tragedy in Norway when Anders Breivik murdered 77 people, an event that made the need for better planning abundantly clear in cyber security. [...]
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President Abbas Meets With Kerry In Jordan
President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday held a meeting with US secretary of state John Kerry in Amman, in the aftermath of his talks with US President Barack Obama. Majdi Al-Khalidi, adviser for diplomatic affairs and international relations, said Kerry was assigned by Obama to listen to the Palestinian position, in an attempt to revive peace [...]
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Reconciliation Between Israel And Turkey Important To Promote Middle East Peace – Kerry
The reconciliation between Israel and Turkey is a very important development that will help advance the cause of peace and stability in the region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday following his meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry was referring to the recent telephone conversation in which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu [...]
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Claims That Pope Francis Supported Gay Civil Unions Disputed
The director of the Catholic News Agency of Argentina (AICA) has told CNA that claims of Pope Francis supporting gay civil unions when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires are not true. Miguel Woites, who works directly with the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina, the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires and the Apostolic Nunciature, dismissed statementes made [...]
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Saudi Arabia: Burmese Refugees To Receive Job Training
By P.K. Abdul Ghafour Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday distributed free residency permits (iqamas) to the first applicants of the Burmese community in a historic move to legalize the status of nearly 500,000 refugees in the Kingdom. “This is one of the beautiful moments in my life,” said Prince Khaled while addressing a ceremony [...]
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The Sluggish Recovery Of Real Net Domestic Private Business Investment – OpEd
Making sense of economic fluctuations can be a daunting task. The economy comprises a gigantic set of interrelated assets, inputs, processes, transactions, and outputs, and its dimensions can be and have been measured in countless ways. If we are to speak sensibly about the economy as a whole—recognizing that almost anything we say about the [...]
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Obama-Kerry-Hagel Troika Spreading Global Mayhem – OpEd
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an evaluation of the past policies especially in regions where Washington expended its greatest financial and [...]
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“No Indefinite Detention At Guantánamo,” US Claims, Defying Reality – OpEd
We live in surreal times. President Obama, who promised “hope and change,” has, instead, proven to be a worthy successor to George W. Bush as a warmonger and a defender of those in positions of power and authority who authorized the use of torture. In addition, when it comes to another hallmark of Bush-era crimes [...]
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Why The US Must Accept Its Defeat In Syria – OpEd
Some readers may find this particular article a little different from those I have written so far. As you can gather from my profile, I am an economic analyst, who mostly covers Pakistan’s economy. This pushed me first to write about the political economy then to geopolitics in the region, and now to the issue [...]
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President Rajapakse’s Lessons From US-Resolution Against Sri Lanka – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge The Rajapakse Government needs to take a reality check without delay. The US and allies inclusive of India are not concerned about the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims or how many died, disappeared or were resettled or the scale of development taking place. These are all smokescreens to hide the true agenda. They are [...]
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US Issues 1 Million Green Cards, Naturalizes 757,000 In 2012
By Kate Woodsome Nearly a million people became U.S. citizens last year, and just over a million became legal permanent residents, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The data shows the numbers of new “green card” holders and naturalizations, the process of becoming a U.S. citizen, have been fairly [...]
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Bloomberg Takes Aim At NRA In Anti-Gun Crusade
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attracted the ire of the National Rifle Association by announcing a pricey ad campaign that he hopes will “level the playing field” against the influence of America’s powerful gun lobby. Bloomberg, who ranks among the top 10 wealthiest Americans, is bankrolling the $12 million television ad campaign for the [...]
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Kerry Says Iraq Helping Syria’s Assad By Allowing Arms Flow
US Secretary of State John Kerry who arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit on Sunday has expressed dissatisfaction with the Iraqi government’s policy toward Syria. Speaking to journalists after his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, he declared that Washington was opposed to any support to Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Kerry said that Washington [...]
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The Hong Kong Solution – OpEd
President Obama’s recent visit to the Middle East brought with it renewed speculation about a resumption of the peace process, frozen solid since September 2010. Speculation is the operative word, since no serious commentator offers much hope that talks will indeed restart or, even if they did, that either party would have anything new to [...]
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Syrian Opposition Leader Steps Down
Syria’s opposition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib has resigned from the National Coalition, his spokesman told Al Jazeera on Sunday. “I announce my resignation from the National Coalition, so that I can work with a freedom that cannot possibly be had in an official institution,” Khatib said a statement on his Facebook page. Spokesman Mohamed Ali [...]
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Zygier Case Revealed: In Failing To Penetrate Iran And Hezbollah, He Exposed Israeli Spies In Lebanon – opEd
Ronen Bergman, Israel’s leading intelligence correspondent published a new report in Der Spiegel today (this is a teaser and here a summary–in German) that details the cause of Ben Zygier’s arrest. I have confirmed through my own Israeli source that Bergman’s account of Zygier’s fate is correct. According to Bergman, Zygier was dispatched to Europe [...]
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Disagreements At OAS 44th General Assembly Appear To Be Inevitable – Analysis
Support and suspicion towards HR reform in the Americas In March 22-23, Foreign Ministers and ambassadors of Organization of American States (OAS) member states gathered in the 44th Extraordinary General Assembly in Washington, D.C. to discuss the strengthening and progress of the Inter-American System of Human Rights (ISHR). The Costa Rican Foreign Minister, Enrique Castillo [...]
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Ron Paul: Let’s Not Over-React To North Korean Saber Rattling – OpEd
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have again reached a flashpoint, as the US and South Korea trade threats with the government of North Korea. North Korea has threatened retaliation for US/South Korean provocations and has, it claims, abrogated the armistice that ended the Korean War some 60 years ago. On the other side, the US [...]
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