United Nations-affiliated Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will deploy election monitors from Europe and central Asia to polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week, according to a report on Saturday. The Leadership Conference on Civil [...]
UN Affiliate To Monitor Conservatives During U.S. Elections – OpEd
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British “Channel 4” Labeled “Highly Irresponsible” For “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings”
Hindus have blamed “Channel 4” of United Kingdom for acting highly irresponsibly in its smash hit documentary series “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings”, which they say resulted in adding more misery to the lives of already maltreated European Gypsy (Roma) community. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that in case [...]
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Buddhist Terrorism: No Longer A Myth – OpEd
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Last week the Myanmar Post on its front page reported about a meeting of Karen Religious Protection Organization that was held on October 14 in Mae Baung Monastery, Pha-an. The meeting was attended by more than 100 Buddhists including the Chief Administrators from all the nine quarters except the two from [...]
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Iran: Ahmadinejad Refused Evin Prison Visit
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been denied a visit with his jailed press aide, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, by the Iranian judiciary. IRNA reports that Ahmadinejad has written a letter of complaint to Ayatollah Larijani, the head of the judiciary, saying his agreed-upon appointment to visit Evin Prison on Monday has been postponed. He urged Ayatollah Larijani to [...]
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US Ex-President Nixon’s Rival George McGovern Dies At 90
Former US Senator George McGovern, who stood as the Democratic presidential candidate against Richard Nixon in 1972, has died, aged 90, BBC News reported. He was in a hospice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and slipped out of consciousness three days ago. McGovern’s bid for the presidency in 1972 was marred by what later emerged [...]
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Lebanon Fears New Wave Of Assassinations
Thousands of people gathered Sunday in central Beirut to attend the funeral of General Wissam al Hassan, who was killed Friday in a car bombing attack in the district of Achrafieh. The Lebanese army has deployed forces throughout the capital and vehicles could not reach the center of the city, including the Place des Martyrs [...]
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Intelligence Shows No Planning For Benghazi Consulate Attack – OpEd
ABC News reports: The latest intelligence assessment of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi indicates there was little if any pre-planning for it and that it was in part an opportunistic response to the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the [...]
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Iran Hangs Three ‘Terrorists’ For 2010 Bombings
(RFE/RL) — Iran’s judiciary says that it has hanged three men in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province for bombings in 2010 that killed 67 people. The three men were identified as Yahya Charizehi, Abdoljalil Kahrazehi, and Abdolbasset Rigi. Charizehi and Kahrazehi were convicted for a bombing in Chabahar city in December 2010 that killed 39 people [...]
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Women’s Soccer: A Reflection On Women’s Rights in Argentina – OpEd
y Gabriela Garton Mia Hamm. Brandi Chastain. Brianna Scurry. These are all female athletes who became household names after the United States national team won the 1999 Women’s World Cup. Since then, women’s soccer participation levels have risen exponentially in the U.S., making soccer one of the most popular female sports played here. Now, young [...]
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Beyond Free Speech Vs. Religion – OpE
By Rebecca Cataldi Weeks after an anti-Islamic film created by an Egyptian in California sparked controversy and sometimes violent protests around the world, debates about freedom of expression continue. Some have advocated limiting the right to use free speech to denigrate religions, both to respect religious sensitivities and to protect religious virtues, such as reverence [...]
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Claim That US Unemployment Figures Were Cooked Not So “Ludicrous” After All? – OpEd
When the September unemployment figures were announced a month before the presidential election as having miraculously declined to below 8% for the first time since the current administration started, more than a few speculated that there may have been some book-cooking in the back room. In response, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, said she was “insulted” [...]
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Suspected Wisconsin Gunman Found Dead
The shooter suspected of killing three people and wounding four others at a spa near a mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin, has been found dead with a reportedly self-inflicted gunshot wound, a local police chief told the media. The body of the suspect, Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, has been found by police after a six hour [...]
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Military Strike On Iran Would Only Delay Nuclear Development – Interview
The upcoming US and Israeli elections have ignited speculation about possible military action against Iran. A newly-released report claims that such a strike would only motivate Iran to build nuclear weapons. RT met with the co-author of this report, Dr. Austin Long , associate professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to talk [...]
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DRC: Doubts Mount Over Ugandan Mediation
Uganda’s mediation to end the fighting in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between government troops and M23 “mutineers”, which has caused large-scale population displacement, has come into question. At their eighth summit in Kampala in August 2012, International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) heads of state and government mandated Uganda as its [...]
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Water: Source Of International Conflict And Weapon Of War – Analysis
Over the next 10 years the world population will be nearly 8 billion from less than 7 billion now and by 2050 it will be more than 9 billion. The size of the global economy will grow four times larger than it is today. The share of low and middle income country in the world [...]
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Mercedes-Benz Actros Wins Two Prestigious Design Awards
The new Mercedes-Benz Actros has won not one but two prestigious design awards: the German Design Award 2013 in the “Transportation and Public Space” category and the “Focus in Gold 2012” award from the Design Center Stuttgart. The flagship truck from Mercedes-Benz won over the jury with the high quality and ergonomics of its interior [...]
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BP Agrees $27 Billion Deal With Rosneft Russian Oil Giant
BP has agreed a deal worth more than 27 billion US dollars in a move that will see it take a stake in the world’s largest publicly listed oil producer, Belfast Telegraph reported. The oil giant’s board is understood to have unanimously approved a plan to sell its 50% stake in its troubled TNK-BP joint [...]
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The Galilee First! – OpEd
By Sam Bahour The horrendous reality of the Palestinian communities inside Israel—in places like Akka, Haifa, Nazareth, Yaffa, and the Negev—is not about being regulated to sit in the back of the bus; they could only wish for such blatant racism. Here, the racism is multilayered, ideological, well-camouflaged, state-sponsored, and non-stop. Anyone who thinks that [...]
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The Risky Business Of Eating In America – OpEd
By Jill Richardson Long before human beings decoded the human genome or split the atom, they discovered that arsenic is very good at killing things. The ancient Romans prized it as a murder weapon because it could be mixed into food or drink without altering its color, taste, or smell. Plus, a tiny dose kills [...]
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The Northern Triangle’s Population: Citizens Caught In Crossfire – Analysis
By Gene Bolton The ambiguity between the role of military forces and the police is a growing concern in Central America’s Northern Triangle countries, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In all three countries, underpaid, outmanned, outgunned, and ill-trained police forces are forced to solicit assistance from the military. Most international attention on these matters revolves [...]
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