The ‘biggest cyber-attack in history’ has caused a worldwide web slowdown as the battle between an anti-spam group and a Dutch web host continues to heat up. The largest known distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in history was sparked when the non-profit group Spamhaus placed CyberBunker on a real-time blacklist of sites to be blocked for spreading [...]
‘Biggest’ Cyber-Attack In History Grips Web
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Pope Calls For End To Central African Republic Violence
By Estefania Aguirre Pope Francis appealed for an “immediate halt to violence and looting” in the Central African Republic after a coup toppled the country’s government over the weekend. “I call for an immediate halt to the violence and looting, and a political solution to the crisis to be found as soon as possible that [...]
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Mali Prepares For Post-Military Operation Stage
By Mawassi Lahcen The interim government in Mali is working toward the return to normal political conditions and holding democratic elections once the military operation is over. The situation is almost stable in Timbuktu and Gao, said Malian Communications Minister and government spokesperson Manga Dembele on Saturday (March 23rd) during the Global Growth Conference at [...]
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Just A US Citizen, No Big Deal – OpEd
The American media is full of praise for President Obama for “brokering” a detente between Israel and Turkey, two former allies who have been at loggerheads since May 31, 2010 when heavily armed Israeli Defense Force fighters boarded the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish-flagged vessel seeking to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza with non-military supplies, [...]
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Iran Viewpoint: Strategic Assessment Of Leader Of Iran’s Latest Remarks – OpEd
By Mahdi Mohammadi Two years ago, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was addressing the audience at a university in the United States. During that address, he noted that in his opinion, in the absence of a credible military threat to accompany such options as sanctions, negotiations and intelligence operations, it would not be possible [...]
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Time To Reconcile In Bangladesh? – Analysis
Recent civil unrest on the streets of Bangladesh has left experts questioning how to move past the country’s violent birth – without incurring more deaths. “This is unprecedented violence of a shocking nature. The nation never experienced such violence in post-independent Bangladesh,” said Sabir Mustafa, a London-based political specialist covering Bangladeshi politics. Violence broke out [...]
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Uruguay Reinforces Bilateral Ties With Haiti
This past Monday, Uruguay’s Foreign Minister, Luis Almagro, handed to the Haitian Delegation in the United Nations the amount of $3,477,770 million, which represents the solidarity of each Uruguayan with the Haitian people. Foreign Minister Almagro visited New York to participate in a series of activities related to the question of the Falkland Islands, and [...]
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FBI To Monitor Online Chats In Real-Time By 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t have the ability to monitor everyone’s one-on-one Internet chats in real-time just yet, but the agency’s chief lawyer says all that should soon change. FBI general counsel Andrew Weissman discussed the Justice Department’s power to put pressure on cyber-criminals during an address last week at the National Press Club [...]
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U.N. In Final Days Of Creating Global Gun Control Treaty In Manhattan – OpEd
The United Nations Office for Disarmament is in the last stages of negotiations that began on Monday to finalize what leaders expect to become the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade. The group of nations involved in creating the treaty document at the U.N.’s headquarters in New York City [...]
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Unfree In Palestine: Registration, Documentation And Movement Restriction – Review
Unfree in Palestine. Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction By Nadia Abu-Zahra and Adah Kay, Pluto Press, London 2013, pp. 232, L 17.99. The latest visit by U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama to Israel has demonstrated to the world on which side the Empire stands. Obama promised an occupying power absolute support and eternal loyalty. Behind [...]
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Climate Anomalies Or Cyclones Of Apocalypses? – OpEd
By Nikita Sorokin The residents of the northern hemisphere have not seen such heavy snowfalls and longstanding frosts for a long time. On the other hand, this year, meteorologists forecast a vehement spring and a very hot summer. Climate experts warn that climate anomalies are becoming a usual phenomenon. In January, the head of the [...]
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US Midwest Refineries Boost Capacity For Heavy Crude Oil – Analysis
Despite recent national attention on rising domestic production of light sweet crude oil, especially from tight oil formations in North Dakota, some Midwest refiners are reconfiguring their facilities to process more heavy crude oil, which will likely come from Canada. The refinery coking capacity in PAD District 2 (the Midwest) is set to increase significantly [...]
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Foreigners Fight Alongside Syrian Revolutionaries – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Moaz Al-Khatib, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, refuted allegations that the Syrian opposition is allowing foreign fighters in the conflict. He further asked why they were not allowed to seek the help of foreign fighters when no one seems to mind the Russians, the Iranians and Hezbollah fighters backing [...]
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Burning Out Another Room In The Arab House – OpEd
By Jeremy Salt In the ugly panorama that is the contemporary Middle East a light hardly flickers on the horizon. Iraq has been destroyed as a unitary Arab state and jihadis unleashed in Syria are burning out another room in the Arab house. Lebanon has again been brought to the brink of implosion through the [...]
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Burma’s Military Rejects Rights Abuse Charges
Burma’s military chief on Wednesday rejected charges that the armed forces had committed war crimes in the past, following calls for international accountability for blatant rights violations by government soldiers during the five decades under military junta rule. “We are a military that adheres to not only civil and martial laws and regulations, but also [...]
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Venezuelan Elections Of April 14, 2013: Rehabilitated Neoliberalism Versus 21st Century Socialism – Analysis
By Frederick B. Mills In those Latin American countries that have decided to abandon neoliberalism in pursuit of social justice, there has been a change in the parameters of political debate in presidential electoral politics. Right wing electoral campaigns can no longer count on the effectiveness of hysterical anti-communism nor on singing the virtues of [...]
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Saudi Arabia Mulls Linking Twitter To IDs
By Shaja Al-Buqami Twitter users beware. Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is currently studying the possibility of linking the access to the microblogging site with the personal identification of social media users, according to sources. The move is likely to create ripples in the social media circles. A source at the CITC [...]
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Do Muslims Really Understand Islam? – OpEd
By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim The total number of the Muslim population is around 1.6 billion or about 25 percent of the world population. Generally speaking, most of the Arab population is Muslims, but not every Muslim is an Arab. For example, Pakistan and Bangladesh are not Arab countries, but they have more Muslims than all 22 [...]
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Preserving Stability In Cuba After Normalizing Relations With US: Importance Of Trading With State Owned Enterprises – Analysis
By Dr. Timothy Ashby Cuba under Raul Castro has entered a new period of economic, social, and political transformation. Reforms instituted within the past few years have brought the expansion of private sector entrepreneurial activity, including lifting restrictions on the sales of residential real estate, automobiles, and electronic goods. Additional reforms included, more than a [...]
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Increasing Risk Of North Korean Tactical Attack On South Korea: What U.S. Needs To Do
By Bruce Klingner North Korea routinely threatens to annihilate South Korea, the United States, and Japan. After its recent successful long-range missile and nuclear tests, Pyongyang now claims it already has the capability to target U.S. bases in the Pacific and the American homeland with nuclear weapons. As frightening as these warnings are, North Korea [...]
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