December 28, 2008 :: Webb Tisch :: No Comment Yet
Israeli airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 228 people, according to reports from the region. The United States has urged Israel to avoid causing civilian deaths, but has not called for an end to the strikes, and Hamas, the militant faction that controls the Gaza Strip, has said Israel has violated the terms of a truce agreement, and that it will act to defend the people of Gaza. The interior minister for the Hamas government of Gaza told the press that he wants foreign governments allied to Israel and throughout the Arab world, to speak out against the airstrikes and pressure Israel to halt them.
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November 30, 2008 :: J.E. Robertson :: One Comment
The three-day siege of Mumbai has come to a fateful, bloody end, leaving at least 183 dead and over 270 injured. The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, a 105-year-old landmark, the scene of the worst fighting, was described by one witness as “totally burnt”, with bodies bloodied and badly damaged by fire, strewn around. The attack began Wednesday evening as 8 to 10 gunmen reportedly landed in a small inflatable boat on a city beach, and proceeded to assault civilians at cafes and hotels, using high-powered automatic weapons and grenades.
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November 30, 2008 :: Denver Lessing :: One Comment
We have to think very carefully about what it would mean if we took the accusations of some political leaders in India seriously when they say the origin of the attacks can be linked to Pakistan. More careful, more thoughtful intellectual lights in the Indian diplomatic corps or in party politics, have noted that while it is likely fair to say the official government of Pakistan was not responsible, it may also be true that there are militant “roots” somewhere in Pakistani society that supported or enabled the attacks. It must be said, there is no publicly known evidence to date.
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July 23, 2008 :: J.E. Robertson :: No Comment Yet
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has reportedly signed an agreement with the government of Robert Mugabe to meet to discuss a power-sharing arrangement between the ruling Zanu-PF party and Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, which many believe won disputed elections outright earlier this year. The meeting would be the first face to face meeting in ten years between the rivals.
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March 15, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
International media reports say that sources in the Tibetan exile community, from India to New York, have confirmed that at least 30 civilian demonstrators were killed by Chinese security forces as they moved to end a demonstration in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, on Friday. Demonstrations had begun on Monday, and for four days, reports suggest the majority of demonstrations were peaceful.
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December 30, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
In the wake of the assassination of Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto, stability seems to be the key goal among top rivals in secular political leadership. The PPP has announced that in keeping with Ms. Bhutto’s wishes, her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, a 19-year-old student at Christ Church College, Oxford, will take the helm [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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October 4, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: Darfur, beset by years of bloody internecine violence, with the Khartoum-backed janjaweed militia killing civilians in numbers the US government has officially declared to be genocide, is still struggling to find a real beginning for peace. For years, human rights groups have pleaded with the international community to intervene, with or without the [...]
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September 26, 2007 :: staff :: No Comment Yet
Lester R. Brown, EPI :: As land and water become scarce and as competition for these vital resources intensifies, we can expect mounting social tensions within societies, particularly between those who are poor and dispossessed and those who are wealthy, as well as among ethnic and religious groups. Population growth brings with it a steady [...]
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September 22, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Lester R. Brown, EPI :: On March 16, 2003, some 10,000 participants [met] in Japan for the third World Water Forum to discuss the world water prospect. Although they [would] be officially focusing on water scarcity, they [would also] indirectly be focusing on food scarcity because 70 percent of the water we divert from rivers [...]
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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 [...]
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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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September 19, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: More than 1 billion people already face fresh water scarcity, figure expected to double in 20 years’ time
Water is one of the “fundamental building-blocks of life”, as is often said in science, in biology classrooms, in medicine, theology, environmental policy debates, and in cosmology and space exploration. It is also a commodity whose [...]
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