Dozens of protesters stormed Libya’s national congress on Tuesday, October 30 as it voted on a proposed government, saying they were unhappy with some of the ministers, a Reuters witness said, according to the news agency. Fewer than 100 people, including civilians and former rebel fighters, charged into the hall as the congress voted on [...]
Libya: Protesters Storm Congress Amid Vote On Government
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Microsoft Showcases Windows Phone 8 At Launch Event
Microsoft has showcased Windows Phone 8, the new mobile operating system that will become available to consumers this week, Digital Spy said. At a launch event in the US – featuring an appearance from actress Jessica Alba – Microsoft trumpeted the phone software that it hopes will compete with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. A [...]
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Burma: Call For International Monitors In Rakhine
Rights activists have called for international monitors to safeguard the lives of thousands of Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State following last week’s deadly sectarian violence. “We are begging international observers to come and witness what is actually happening – to stop the violence and attacks on innocent civilians,” Mohammad Nawsim, secretary of the [...]
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Syrian Rebel Use Of Social Media – Analysis
By Asher Berman The Syrian rebels and their support networks use social media for a variety of purposes including self-promotion, fundraising, directing attacks, and exchanging tactics. While the rebels would still be able to operate in the absence of social media, their financing and combat capabilities would be diminished, as would the influence of some [...]
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UN: Opium Production In Burma Grows For Sixth Straight Year
The United Nations says opium production in Burma has gone up for the sixth consecutive year, despite increased government efforts to curtail output of the crop used to make heroin. An annual report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said Wednesday that state eradication efforts destroyed poppies on nearly 24,000 hectares of land [...]
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Eurozone Unemployment Hits 17-Year High In September
The number of Europeans without a job in the single currency area hit new record high in September. The unemployment rate in the Eurozone reached 11.6%, with analysts expecting no improvement any time soon. While the rate reported by Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, on Wednesday marks just a slight increase from the August number [...]
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Syria: Over 36,000 Killed In Revolt
Violence in Syria killed more than 36,000 people in nearly 20 months of conflict as blood continued to flow Wednesday with a bombing near a Shiite shrine south of Damascus. Meanwhile, the Syrian warplanes bombed relentlessly a suburb of Damascus, which is considered as a stronghold of the rebels. The violence has claimed more than [...]
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Tunisia: Fear Of Salafist Retaliation
The Tunisian police and army were deployed Wednesday in the neighborhood of Manouba, a suburb of Tunis, to prevent any further violence after clashes with Salafists overnight, said the Ministry of the Interior. “There is a great reinforcement of security forces and the national guard to prevent retaliation” by the radical Islamist movement, said Khaled [...]
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Will ‘Sandy’ Save Obama’s Campaign? – OpEd
By Vitaly Radnayev and Andrey Fedyashin Storm Sandy that hit the East Coast of the US could play a crucial role in the presidential campaign. Analysts believe that the storm can benefit Obama even better than all the members of his campaign team. Sandy can help Obama get a ‘permission’ to reassume presidency. And this [...]
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The Creation Of A U.S.-Approved Syrian Government In Exile – OpEd
Is American diplomacy an oxymoron? The Syrian opposition has been notoriously fractured, so the goal of forging unity among what have hitherto been disparate groups clearly makes sense. What makes no sense but should be no surprise is Washington’s typical heavy-handedness in trying to achieve this goal. An upcoming Qatar meeting “will include dozens of [...]
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Iran Vs the Empire: Fighting Dollarization – OpEd
The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions—including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations—is having its affect. According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Steve Hanke, Iran is facing hyperinflation, with a monthly inflation rate of nearly 70% per month and its national currency, the rial, plummeting in [...]
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Another Torture Victim On Trial At Guantánamo
In the last two weeks, the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay enjoyed a brief resurgence of interest as pre-trial hearings took place in the cases of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of directing and supporting the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and in the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, [...]
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Nepal: In Defence Of Freedom Of Expression – OpEd
Freedom of expression is supported by a web of interrelated values. There is democracy itself and the individual’s need to express and explore ideas, to learn and think about a wide range of topics, and to be associated with other people who have common interests. Striking an appropriate balance between the protection of reputation and [...]
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The Arabs Have Lost Their Power Base In The Middle East – OpEd
As the U.S. troops progressively exit from the Middle East, Turkey and Iran acquire the upper hand in the region, at least for now, rather than the Arab countries of the region. In the struggle for power in Syria, it is not Arab countries which are playing the leading role but two non-Arab states. Turkey, [...]
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The Issue Of Arab Jews: Manipulating A Justified Cause – Analysis
THE PLIGHT of Palestinians uprooted and driven out of large chunks of historic Palestine to make way for a Jewish state lies at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. That epochal dispute dominated policies towards and perceptions of the Middle East for much of post-World War Two history. Efforts to achieve a definite resolution have [...]
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LTTE Crimes Against Tamils And How Pro-LTTE TNA And Others Simply Watched – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge The LTTE ground fighting force may be no more but there are plenty of LTTE supporters that exist both locally and internationally. We challenge them to deny whether LTTE did not commit the following crimes and abuses against their own people – the people who they said were the reason why they [...]
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Top Pollster Predicts Low Voter Turnout This Election Cycle – OpEd
A top political polling firm predicted Tuesday that there will be lower voter turnout in the 2012 presidential election cycle than in 2004 and 2008. According to Gallup Polling, registered voters reported paying less attention to the upcoming election, and were less likely to rate their chance of voting than in 2004 and 2008, two [...]
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Tsunami And Hurricane Sandy: Lest We Forget – OpEd
Our prayers are with the people on USA’s Eastern Coast who have been living through nightmarish experiences as they are threatened with hurricane Sandy. It has brought life almost to a standstill, but fortunately there has been no humanitarian disaster of the kind that the Tsunami of December 2004 inflicted on the people of Chennai, [...]
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Will Hu Jintao Emulate Jiang And Retain Control Of PLA After Party Transition? – Analysis
There are two Central Military Commissions (CMC) in China — the Party Central Military Commission and the State Central Military Commission. The party CMC is the more important of the two. It acts as the interface between the Armed Forces and the Communist Party of China CPC) and makes recommendations to the Party leadership in [...]
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China’s 18th Party Congress And The PLA – Analysis
By Bhaskar Roy Along with the change in the civilian leadership hierarchy at the conclusion of the 18th Party Congress starting November 08 in Beijing, the Central Military Commission (CMC) will see the exit of old faces and induction of new military leaders in the body. Based on the new promotions/appointments announced recently, the following [...]
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