Iran’s judiciary and prison authorities should end mistreatment of the prominent rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights organizations said. Ebadi and the rights groups also called on Iran’s authorities to allow all prisoners access to necessary medical care and family visits to which they are entitled under international [...]
Iran: Political Prisoners Denied Visits, Care
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Bahrain: Protests Held Against Ban On Public Gatherings
Bahraini police fired tear gas at peaceful demonstrators as a few hundred people marched across the country on Friday protesting a government ban on public gatherings. Police also reportedly arrested prominent activist Said Yousif al-Muhafdah. Several demonstrations took place following Friday prayers with people shouting slogans against the kingdom’s monarch and the US. A 12-year-old [...]
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Concerns Close US Race Could Lead To Vote Recount, EU Delay
(EurActiv) — With President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney continuing to run neck-and-neck in the US presidential race, analysts in Washington are seriously considering whether a recount on 7 November will be necessary. The consequence could be far-reaching for Europe, which is waiting until the US vote to take a decision on debt-laden [...]
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Aid On Palestinian Terms: The Case For A Boycott – OpEd
Palestinians, already denied their right to self-determination, should not have to receive aid in ways that further undermine local priorities, capacities and ownership. By Nora Lester Murad Aid, too often conflated with “development,” is a huge global industry whose success is not at all obvious: despite some gains, poverty is not eradicated, the climate is [...]
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The Three Biggest Democratic Takeaways From US Election 2012 – OpEd
It’s not too early to draw some lessons. Regardless of what happens Tuesday, Democrats should have three big takeaways from the 2012 election. Lesson One: Democrats Can Own the Future. Latinos, African-Americans, young people, and women have become the major Democratic voting blocs. That’s good news for Democrats because the first three constitute a growing [...]
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Energy Update On Hurricane Sandy Impacts – Analysis
Earlier this week, Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S. Northeast, an area that is home to some of the United States’ critical petroleum refining and transportation infrastructure and is a major consumer of petroleum products. Areas along the lower Delaware River, home to most of the region’s refining infrastructure and some major terminals suffered some precautionary [...]
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Hurricane Sandy Leaves 1 Million In Haiti Facing Food Insecurity
While the world media is focusing on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the United States, the UN is calling attention to the fact that over 1 million people in Haiti are facing food insecurity after the storm hit Latin America’s poorest country. The situation is exacerbated by the nation’s long drought and Hurricane Isaac [...]
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Burma: No Solution To End ‘Kachin War’ Under Unfair Charter – OpEd
By Zin Linn Subsequent to President Thein Sein took office, the quasi-civilian government looks as if ignoring its own promises – good governance, national reconciliation, poverty alleviation etc. – made during the presidential inaugural ceremony. The president needs to stop civil war against ethnic rebels to implement good governance, national reconciliation and poverty alleviation. His [...]
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Drones: The Luxury Of Fighting Wars From Offices – OpEd
Drones may be revolutionary now, but, like all military-funded technological innovations, they surely paint a portrait, however tentative, of a future society that is even braver than the one we inhabit today. Are we on the verge of a world in which cars, planes, and other forms of transportation are operated remotely? Google is already [...]
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India’s Economic Invasion Of Sri Lanka: What Is Being Done About It? – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge Half of Sri Lanka’s post-independence was ravaged with countering terrorism. Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and territorial integrity was secured by its armed forces but not without sacrificing life and limb. The armed forces passed on the next phase of post-conflict to Sri Lanka’s political leadership. Nevertheless, it is more than clear that from [...]
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If You’re Not Reading This, Please Don’t Vote – OpEd
I’m guessing that as soon as I walk into the voting booth, I’ll probably make up my mind then.” So said undecided voter Kerry Ladka, appearing on Greta Van Susteren’s program after the second presidential debate. He had just compared and contrasted the candidates, giving Mitt Romney the edge on the economy, Barack Obama the [...]
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Obama, Romney Race To Close Election Finish
By Michael Bowman Less than 48 hours before Americans go to the polls, Democratic President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, are crisscrossing the United States in a final push for votes. With public opinion polls showing an evenly-divided nation, both campaigns say they are confident of victory Tuesday. His [...]
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Algerian Soccer Violence Signals Mounting Discontent – Analysis
An upsurge in soccer-related violence in Algeria serves as a warning that 18 months after the government quelled mass protests with increased wages and social spending frustration is mounting with the failure of the country’s gerontocracy in control since independence to share power with a younger generation, create jobs and address housing problems. In the [...]
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Power Of Al-Qaeda Increasing Despite Obama Claims, Say Terror Experts – OpEd
Even after the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama continues to give himself credit for all but destroying al-Qaeda and it’s offshoots. On Friday, while campaigning in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Obama boasted that al-Qaeda “had been decimated.” Then over the weekend in Ohio, Obama repeated his boast. “Al [...]
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Genocide Of The Rohingyas Of Myanmar – OpEd
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Current Situation inside Arakan Myanmar’s western state of Arakan (Rakhine) is again burning. In Mrauk-U, the former capital of the independent kingdom of Arakan, hundreds of young Rakhine Buddhist men were on the march: packed on the backs of pickups, on motorcycles, on trishaws, tuk-tuks and bicycles, but mostly on foot. [...]
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Libya: Intelligence HQ In Tripoli Under Grenade Attack, Militias Clash Outside
Libya’s intelligence headquarters has been struck by a rocket propelled grenade as two rival militia groups clashed in Tripoli, says Al Arabiya TV. At least five people have been injured, while the building has been partially destroyed, RT’s Paula Slier reports. According to Al Jazeera the two militia groups clashed as one gang was trying [...]
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Romneyism – OpEd
By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview all its own – a kind of creed that explains Mitt Romney. Those who say he has no principles are selling him short. Despite its [...]
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Smallholder Farmers Need Improved Stake In Nile’s Development
A new book finds that the Nile river, together with its associated tributaries and rainfall, could provide 11 countries—including a new country, South Sudan, and the drought-plagued countries of the Horn of Africa—with enough water to support a vibrant agriculture sector, but that the poor in the region who rely on the river for their [...]
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New Device Could Allow Heartbeat To Power Pacemaker
An experimental device converted energy from a beating heart to provide enough electricity to power a pacemaker, in a study presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2012. The findings suggest that patients could power their pacemakers — eliminating the need for replacements when batteries are spent. In a preliminary study, researchers tested an [...]
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Flooding Syria With Foreign Arms: A View From Damascus – OpEd
Across Syria these days, one is able to examine massive evidence that this ancient civilization, the historic bastion of nationalist Arabism and since the 1948 Nabka, an essential pillar of the growing culture of Resistance to the Zionist occupation of Palestine, is becoming awash with foreign arms being funneled to “rebels” by countries advocating regime [...]
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