posted June 9, 2012 by Ahram Online Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-allied Shebab rebels Saturday mocked a US offer of up to $33 million for tip-offs enabling the arrest of its top leaders, saying they would give 10 camels to anyone who helped locate Barack Obama. The highest price put up by the US State Department on Thursday […]
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by Gareth Porter posted June 5, 2012 by Inter Press Service News Agency France and Germany were prepared in spring 2005 to negotiate on an Iranian proposal to convert all of its enriched uranium to fuel rods, making it impossible to use it for nuclear weapons, but Britain vetoed the deal at the insistence of
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by Stephen Leahy posted June 4, 2012 by Inter Press Service News Agency Ecologically ignorant policies are largely responsible for the interlinked crises that are unraveling the planet’s life support system. The unintended consequences of such policies are climate change, desertification, biodiversity decline, ocean pollution and the destruction of forests, according to the policy advocacy
By Tamara Pearson posted June 6, 2012 by Venezuela Analysis Yesterday movements and political currents grouped into the Revolutionary Popular Alliance (APR) marched in Caracas against global capitalism and for a deepening of the Bolivarian revolution. According to Venezuelan alternative media source, Aporrea, some 2000 people took part in the march. Groups both expressed their
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posted June 9, 2012 by Russia Today Journalist Alex Thomson reports that Syrian rebels set him and his crew up to be killed by Syrian troops in a bid to show Damascus in a negative light. Thomson, a chief correspondent for Channel 4 news, says he and his group were deliberately given incorrect directions by
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posted June 7, 2012 by Russia Today UN chief Ban Ki-moon has condemned the massacres in Hama and Houla, where over 170 people died, in his strongest ever dressing-down of official Syria. The Assad government has lost its legitimacy, said Ban. “Each day seems to bring new additions to the grim catalogue of atrocities: assaults
by Tamara Pearson posted December 7, 2011 by Venezuela Analysis “Haha, Ortega doesn’t know what he’s talking about, neither does Evo, they don’t know anything about crime, there are reports out there that know more,” said a journalist from Bloomberg to his colleague. The journalist was sitting next to me in the press tent set
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by Ismail Salami posted May 22, 2012 by Countercurrents In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people including nine children while they were sleeping and all Washington had to say were a few words of condolence
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