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June 29, 2008 :: staff :: No Comment Yet
New Yorker investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reports this week that US joint special operations forces are intensifying “covert military operations” inside Iran. A US State Dept. spokesperson told CNN that US forces are “not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran”, though he did not deny there were operations organized and executed from inside Iran.
June 27, 2008 :: J.E. Robertson :: No Comment Yet
Thursday’s 5 to 4 ruling by the US Supreme Court, in the District of Columbia v. Heller case [PDF], overturns a 30-year ban on handguns in the capital, Washington, DC. Gun rights advocates say it vindicates a basic Constitutional right, while gun-control advocates say it distorts the founders’ intentions and endangers innocent civilians. Some now fear a massive increase in violent crime, which had been curbed by increasingly severe gun-control laws in many urban centers.
April 23, 2008 :: staff :: No Comment Yet
23 April :: Zimbabwe opposition refuses coalition gov’t headed by Mugabe; Mugabe’s Zanu-PF says it is planning for runoff election, not power-sharing; Tsvangirai’s MDC says it won the vote already held and will not accept any arrangement where Mugabe remains in power…
Burgeoning Asian rice crisis attributed to economic planning focusing on modernization, devoting few [...]
March 29, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Reports out of Colombia cite government sources saying the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) acquired uranium on the black market. Colombian authorities claim to have recoverd 66 pounds of uranium. The radioactive material, which in some forms can fuel to a nuclear device, was said to have been recovered after information on 3 laptops [...]
January 9, 2008 :: staff :: No Comment Yet
Sibel Edmonds was a translator at the FBI when she overheard, in taped wiretaps, conversations that involved US officials at high levels organizing and taking bribes in exchange for dealing nuclear secrets to the black market. The Sunday Times, a London-based Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, has now broken the story, after years of Edmonds being turned away by the US press, due to an unprecedented “state secrets privilege” gag order. The world press is taking note, while US media outlets continue to keep quiet or not investigate.
December 28, 2007 :: admin :: One Comment
Fmr. Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, whose father was executed in the process of a military coup in the 1970s, and who has said she remained “broken” by what had happened to her during 5 years in military prison, was assassinated Thursday, while campaigning to restore free elections to her country. She had been the [...]
November 13, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
In many parts of the world, people are presently facing the question, on a societal scale, of whether or not free and open democracy can coexist with measures taken to protect against extremism. The question is an old one and goes to the root of whether it is possible, as a matter of natural law, [...]
September 22, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: In the wake of Mozambique’s long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists, sponsored by Christian aid, set up the Transforming Arms into Tools (TAE) project in the nation’s capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways [...]
September 22, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: Human rights group says ‘opaque chain’ of private interests increasing shipments of dangerous arms, with little supervision…
Amnesty International (Amnesty/AI) has published a new report examining the international arms trade, and its findings indicate there is little control on the expanding web of private interests seeking to profit from a proliferation of dangerous weapons. [...]
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