by Eric Gordy Once a burial ground for partisan heroes of World War II, Lion Cemetery now contains many victims of the siege of Sarajevo. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia decided on Thursday to acquit two Serbian state security officials, Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic. The acquittal is one of a series of dramatic reversals by…
by Johannes Stern A United Nations (UN) report presented yesterday by the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria (ICIS) in Geneva sheds light on the increasing brutality of the Syrian war and its potential to trigger a major international crisis. The contents of the report are a devastating indictment of the imperialist powers in the…
A large U.S. military force has reportedly arrived at a port in the south of Jordan, ready to be deployed at the country’s border with neighboring Syria. The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile has reported that 1,000 U.S troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Tuesday…
by Stephen Lendman posted November 1, 2012 by Information Clearing House Perhaps one day they’ll arrive over a neighborhood near you. Drones are becoming America’s weapon of choice. Domestically so far, they’re used only for eyes in the sky spying. Big Brother wants to watch everyone all the time. Don’t bet against eyes not being…
by Pepe Escobar So Bashar al-Assad has spoken – exclusively, to Argentine daily El Clarin (there’s a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil). Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made some valuable points. The record shows that, yes, the regime has agreed several times to talk to the…
A United Nations inquiry into human rights abuses in Syria has found evidence that rebel forces may have used chemical weapons, its lead investigator has revealed. Carla Del Ponte, a member of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said that testimony gathered from casualties and medical staff indicated that the nerve agent sarin…
Malaysian MP Datuk Kamaruddin Jaafar and President of MAPIM , Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid handing over Nakba 65 th Years petitions from the Parliamentarians and NGOs to Mr Rehel , the Senior Advisor to the UN on the 15th May 2013 at the UN Malaysian office in Kuala Lumpur to be sent to Mr…
Read this Important document on the current crisis in Bangladesh here Executive Summary: Midnight Massacre in Dhaka by Security Forces of Bangladesh On 6 May 2013 at 2.40 in the morning, the government in Bangladesh has cracked down on protests leaving a huge number of unarmed religious people dead and thousands others injured.…
