World - Part 53
The current Ukraine crisis is serious and threatening, so much so that some commentators even compare it to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Columnist Thanassis Cambanis summarizes the core issue succinctly in The Boston Globe: "[President Vladimir V.] P ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
This era's most extreme international crime, the US-UK invasion of Iraq, was not a break in world order because the aggressors didn't cross Russian or Chinese red lines. In contrast, Putin's takeover of the Crimea cross US red lines. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
Colombian union members have faced increased violence and intimidation since the start of the US-Colombia free trade agreement in 2012. Twenty six trade trade unionists were murdered in 2013 and one union's headquarters was firebombed this month. David Ba ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The following text was published by Spiegel in November 2009.
It sheds light on the current crisis in Ukraine and on the history of Russia-Western relations in the immediate post-Cold era.
What it overlooks is that Gorbachev and Shevardnaze were tacitly ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
March 12, 2014 -- (TRN) -- Hackers from the group "Anonymous" have allegedly broken into the email account of a U.S. State Department attache' from the US Army and publicly released PROOF the United States is conducting state-sponsored terrorism inside Uk ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
Not a single major newspaper nor any national news broadcast has ever reported that on Feb. 6, 1985, a jury in Miami concluded that the CIA was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The State Department and the NY Times got caught red-handed with faked evidence of Russian aggression in East Ukraine. But the story is now one of a double and maybe a triple hoax. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The evidence that the Syrian government must have been behind last year's chemical weapons attack is unraveling, argues Gareth Porter - and there's more evidence emerging that Syrian opposition had capability for chemical weapons. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
A Turkish journalist was sentenced Monday to 10 months in prison for a tweet that was critical of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a comment that he has described as a typing error. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The so-called Arab Spring is one of the most pivotal geopolitical happenings of the current century and one which will no doubt reverberate and define the academic discourse on the subject in later.
While no doubt unsavory strongmen like Ben Ali of Tunisi ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
A federal judge on Friday sentenced three activists to prison terms ranging from five to eight years for their part in a foiled plot ahead of the 2012 NATO conference in Chicago that had been branded as an act of terrorism by the prosecution. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}