Two individuals — one a United States citizen who allegedly provided support to a foreign terrorist organization, the other wanted for his alleged role in the overseas kidnapping of an American — were added Wednesday to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list. A third man wanted for questioning in connection with providing material support to [...]
FBI Adds U.S. Citizen To Most Wanted Terrorist List
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Aung San Suu Kyi And The Rohingya Of Myanmar – Analysis
By Zak Rose After an uncharacteristically long and pointed period of silence regarding the ongoing anti-Muslim violence being perpetrated in western Myanmar, pro-democracy and human rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi has finally spoken out. In June of 2012, a string of violent inter-ethnic crimes spiralled into region-wide rioting and violence between the Rohingya, a [...]
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China Weighs On Obama’s Trip
U.S. officials are not saying it directly but President Barack Obama’s first overseas trip following his re-election to Southeast Asia appears intended to blunt China’s growing clout in the region. Obama will leave Washington on Saturday for a visit to Thailand and then attend the 18-nation East Asia Summit in Cambodia before winding down his [...]
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Iran Viewpoint: Three Wishes Of An Iranian For Obama – OpEd
By Mahmoud Reza Golshanpazhooh The US presidential election ended on November 6 and the incumbent President Barack Obama won another four years in office as the president of the United States. Without a doubt, speculations by political experts are now rife as to the possible foreign policy approaches that Obama will adopt during his second [...]
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New Economic Policy Creating New Opportunities And Awakening Old Conflicts Between Uruguay And Argentina – Analysis
By Zoe Breitstein Matza On September 26 the Uruguayan government revealed five new economic reforms to attract foreign tourists in preparation for the southern hemisphere’s budding summer vacation season.1 Most visitors to the country come from its neighbor Argentina, a group that makes up approximately 78 percent of the total number of tourists that visit [...]
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Panetta Orders Military Ethics Review
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says a recent series of ethical problems involving senior commanders are not signs of a systemic problem in the military. In an exclusive interview with VOA Pentagon correspondent Luis Ramirez on Thursday, Panetta said that the military needs to re-evaluate its ethical training. “We’re coming out of ten years [...]
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BP To Pay Record Fine To US For 2010 Oil Spill
BP agrees to pay a record $4.5 bn to US authorities to settle criminal charges relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. “All of us at BP deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident as well as the impact of the spill on the Gulf coast region,” said Bob [...]
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Tel Aviv On Bomb Alert
Tel Aviv residents are asked to go to bomb shelters, the VoR correspondent in Israel reports An air raid siren went off in Tel Aviv Thursday. This was the first time the siren has sounded since the Gulf War in the early 1990s. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the shelling. [...]
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Fortum Calls For Strong Leadership From European Commission For EU Energy Market Development
Fortum said Thursday it welcomes the strong commitment of the European Commission to remove the remaining obstacles to a fully integrated and well-functioning internal energy market, as stated in the Internal Energy Market Communication published today. The EU energy market will not materialise by 2014 without enforced commitment and effort. In order to complete the [...]
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Syria: 39,000 Dead In 20 Month Conflict
Damascus region was Thursday under heavy artillery fire by the Syrian army who carried out a major operation, reported the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR). Violence in Syria killed more than 39,000 people in 20 months, according to a new assessment by the London-based organization. The artillery shelling concentrated on the towns of Daraya [...]
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Pakistan: Why Is The Military Not Opening A Front In North-Waziristan? – Analysis
By Sander Ruben Aarten Over the years, North-Waziristan (NWA) has become the center of Taliban-affiliated terrorism. Concurrently, Pakistan has met heavy international pressure to launch an attack on terrorist safe havens inside NWA. Pakistan has announced and subsequently cancelled military operations in NWA on several occasions. Why is Pakistan so reluctant about launching an attack [...]
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Iran: Head Of Judiciary Slams Ahmadinejad Media Supporters
The head of Iran’s judiciary has criticized Ahmadinejad supporters in the media, saying they have tried to create a scandal around the case of Sattar Beheshti, the detained blogger who died while in custody. Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, the head of Iran’s judiciary, has been on the spot after a jailed blogger died five days after [...]
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Thailand: Obama Should Press Yingluck On Human Rights, Says HRW
US President Barack Obama should publicly raise concerns about Thailand’s human rights record during meetings with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok on November 18, 2012, says Human Rights Watch. Obama will visit Thailand ahead of Burma and Cambodia for the US-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit. The Thai government needs to address an [...]
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European Union Urged To Take Clear Stand On Censorship In China
As the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party prepares to unveil the names of the country’s new leaders, the censorship surrounding the congress has shown the level for contempt for freedom of information in China, according to Reporters Without Borders. “Although Hu Jintao said at the start of the congress that China would ‘never [...]
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The Upcoming Mini-Deal On The “Fiscal Cliff” – OpEd
Want to know what’s going to happen to January’s fiscal cliff? Just remember: Political deals move the same way water goes down hill — following the path of least resistance. Here, the path of least resistance is for congressional Republicans and the President to agree to kick the can down the road – keeping everything [...]
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President Obama, It’s Time To Fulfill Your Promise To Close Guantánamo – OpEd
I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email. Now that the dust has settled [...]
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Did The Election Save ObamaCare? – OpEd
The morning after Tuesday’s vote, there is one thing every commentator agreed on. The election of Barack Obama guaranteed that his signature piece of legislation—health reform—can now go forward. Republicans are powerless to stop it. Yet there is something all these commentators are overlooking. There are six major flaws in ObamaCare. They are so serious [...]
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Israel And Hamas Intensify Combat In Gaza
Combat between Israel and Gaza-based terrorist groups flared up late Wednesday following the killing of Ahmed al-Jaabari, the highest-ranking Hamas leader killed by the Israelis since early 2009, said an Israeli police source on Wednesday. According to the source, Israel’s air force continued pummeling Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, after killing 10 [...]
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The Syrian Impasse – Analysis
By E. Fuat Keyman The impasse in Turkish foreign policy over Syria threatens to turn into a crisis. The time is ripe to redesign Turkish foreign policy and set it on a multi-dimensional course. Turkey is in a serious and highly risky foreign policy dead-end as far as the Syrian problem is concerned. The situation [...]
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Ralph Nader: Cut Gouging And Inequities – OpEd
Congress is still talking about a “Grand Bargain” that “balances” far more spending cuts than tax increases. That is another way of saying that you – the consumer of Medicare and Medicaid services, the recipient of Social Security, and the average taxpayer will take the brunt of the spending cuts, while the wealthy get their [...]
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