With nowhere else to go, New Yorkers displaced by Hurricane Sandy may have no choice but to sleep in jails. As hundreds of thousands remain without power, a Staten Island prison may serve as a temporary home for storm victims. About 100,000 homes and businesses will remain without power for the next several months, New [...]
Desperate For Shelters, New York Considers Turning Jail Cells Into Homes
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Obama’s Economic Policy: The Rich Should Pay Too – OpEd
By Andrei Smirnov There will be no more tax cuts for the wealthy Americans- this is a signal given by the re-elected President Barack Obama. The US leader sees this as the best way to prevent a ‘budget catastrophe’. Delivering his first speech after re-election, Mr. Obama outlined his economic strategy for the years to [...]
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Petraeus Resignation Won’t Interfere With Benghazi Probe, Say Lawmakers – OpEd
In response to the surprise announcement on Friday that Gen. David Petraeus officially resigned from his position as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, many observers wondered if he would still participate in the House and Senate probes into the tragic Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attack. The popular military leader shocked many when he revealed he [...]
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Israeli Tank Shells Kill 4, Wound 30 In Gaza
Israeli tank shells killed 4 Palestinians and wounded 30 in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, medics and witnesses said. Ahmad al-Dardasawi, 18, and Muhammad Hararah, 17, were killed in Gaza City, and two unidentified men later died from injuries sustained in the attack. At least 26 people were wounded in the shelling, with 10 said [...]
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How Do Negotiations Fit Into The Struggle Against Terrorism? – Analysis
By Ihsan Bal Many people interpret the meetings BDP held with Turkey’s President, Speaker of the Parliament and the ruling party as indicators or precursors of a new opening and reform process, of a negotiation process or a political “climate change” regarding the Kurdish issue. The articles and clauses included in the booklet published by [...]
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Benghazi: Obama’s Watergate – OpEd
If you have not been paying attention for the past two months, or if you get your news from the Main Stream Media (MSM), then you may not understand the significance of the tragedy in Benghazi (Libya) on September 11, 2012. In my view, Benghazi is the equivalent of Watergate*, yet much worse. In Benghazi, [...]
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China: Message Of Defiance From Tibet To CPC Congress – Analysis
“We shall not give up our struggle for preserving our ethnic, religious and cultural identity. We shall not give up our reverence for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. We will not lose hopes of his returning to our homeland one day and guiding us again. We are Tibetans and we shall prevail.” That is the [...]
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Sri Lanka: Eastern Diplomacy: TNA Is Sent To Guangxi – Analysis
By Ravi Sundaralingam Immense excitement and euphoria followed among the Tamil Expatriate Communities when the LTTE was given the status of being the Lankan Tamil Leadership and taken to the capitals of Western Countries by the Norwegians. After the demise of the LTTE, Tamil MPs were taken to see Switzerland and other European countries, bringing [...]
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Sri Lankan State Terrorism Spreads To Paris, France
By Tamil Centre For Human Rights With deep sadness and grief we, TCHR, publish this press release on the assassination carried out by the Sri Lankan military intelligence on a Tamil activist, a French citizen in Paris, France – Nadarajah Mathinthiran alias Parithi, nom de guerre Regan. There is no doubt that this assassination was [...]
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China: PLA Generals And CMC Vice-Chairman Back Hu’s Report – Analysis
Senior PLA Generals and the Vice-Chairmen of the newly-expanded Party Central Military Commission (CMC) have in panel discussions praised the record of Mr.Hu Jintao, the outgoing General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and his report to the 18th Party Congress submitted on November 8,2012, and underlined the CPC’s absolute leadership over the [...]
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Obama-II And The Korean Peninsula: The Road Ahead – Analysis
By Rajaram Panda Will newly re-elected US President Barack Obama’s Korean strategy in his second administration undergo any major change, given North Korea’s continued belligerence and attitude of non-cooperation on the matter of resolving the nuclear issue? Are there challenges in this region, which run the risk of overshadowing his accomplishments in the alliance with [...]
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Obama And The Asia Pacific: Macro Strategic Trends In Rebalancing – Analysis
By Abhijit Iyer-Mitra As Obama’s conversation with Medvedev in Seoul – accidentally overheard – conveyed, he now has “more flexibility” and “room for manoeuvre”. At a micro level, this referred to the Ballistic Missile Defences that the US intends to construct in Europe which the Russians find deeply offensive. But looking at the larger picture, [...]
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Saudi Arabia Exports 2.25 Billion Barrels Of Oil Worth SR 921 Billion
By Sharif M. Taha Saudi Arabia exported nearly 2.25 billion barrels of crude oil in the past 10 months of the current year valued at SR 921 billion. According to economic expert Fahad bin Jumaa, local consumption stood at 784 million barrels or 26 percent of the total production in the said period. He predicted [...]
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The Next Game Of Economic Chicken: Not On The Deficit But Over Taxing The Rich – OpEd
With the election behind us I had hoped we’d get beyond games of chicken. No such luck. But first you need to understand that the game of chicken isn’t about how much or when we cut the budget deficit. Or even whether the upcoming “fiscal cliff” poses a danger to the economy. The non-partisan Congressional [...]
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Conservative Judges Demolish The False Legitimacy Of Guantánamo’s Terror Trials – OpEd
When is a war crime not a war crime? When it is invented by the executive branch and Congress, and implemented for six years until a profoundly Conservative appeals court strikes it down. The invented war crime is “providing material support to terrorism,” and on October 16, 2012, a panel of three judges in the [...]
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Iran: Investigate Detained Blogger’s Death, Says HRW
Iranian authorities should investigate the death of a 35-year-old blogger in custody and immediately provide his family with information about the circumstances of his death. Initial reports suggest that he may have died from ill-treatment or torture, say human rights organizations. The blogger, Sattar Beheshti was arrested by Iran’s cyberpolice on October 30, 2012, when [...]
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Kuwait: Calls To Lift Protest Ban
Kuwait’s authorities should revoke a ministerial order to ban all demonstrations because it denies the right to peaceful assembly. Since October 15, 2012, security forces have used teargas and stun grenades to disperse at least three large rallies protesting an effort by the country’s ruler to amend the country’s electoral law in a way that [...]
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Assad Talks About The End – OpEd
By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed For the first time, British Prime Minister David Cameron very clearly said that he is for a safe exit for Assad if it stops bloodshed and allows transfer of power. The fate of Assad will not be his decision alone as the noose is tightening around him and his choices are narrowing [...]
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Burma Army Continues Reinforcements While Kachin Peace Talks Idle – OpEd
By Zin Linn Last round of peace talks on 30 October between government of Burma and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) reached nowhere to end current hostility, according to media reports. The talks which took place at Ruili (Shweli), a town on Sino-Burma border, on October 30 ended earlier than estimated, since Brig Gen Gun [...]
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Tibet: Another Teen Self-Immolates, Burnings Rise To 70
Another Tibetan teenager burned himself to death Saturday in protest against Chinese rule in Gansu province in the eighth self-immolation this week, sources said. The latest burning brings to 70 the total number of self-immolations highlighting opposition to Chinese rule in Tibetan populated areas. The protests this week are believed to have been timed to [...]
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