Citizens International

October 22, 2012

Press TV online petition to save channel in Europe

Following the European satellite provider Eutelsat SA’s illegal move to stop the broadcast of several Iranian satellite channels, Press TV launches an online petition to save Iran’s English-language broadcaster across Europe. In a flagrant act of violating freedom of speech, the company on Monday stopped the broadcast of several Iranian satellite channels, including Press TV, […]

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Buying ‘Justice’

by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship posted October 18, 2012 by Consortiumnews Powerful corporations and right-wing interest groups are taking aim at state judges around the country who have ruled the “wrong” way and who can be tossed out via elections. This new flood of campaign cash is creating a system of justice for the highest

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Ecological Crisis and the Need to Challenge the Twenty Percent

by Joseph Nevins posted October 17, 2012 by Dissident Voice Although you would not know it from what passes for debate during the ongoing presidential campaign here in the United States, the biosphere is under siege. A historically high rate of ice melt in the Artic, devastating floods from the Philippines to Nigeria, a record-setting

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Carnage or Sanctions? Six Million Iranian Lives at Stake

by Esmail Salami posted October 20, 2012 by Dissident Voice The US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran which directly and painfully target the population have created an inconceivable situation for those whose very lives depend on the medicine adversely affected by these barbaric sanctions. The West is sharply aware of the devastating inhuman

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Israeli officials “honor” settler who tortured Palestinian child, leaving him naked and bound

Posted October 8, 2012 by Intifada Frequent and rising Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians almost always go unpunished. Indeed, often, Israeli soldiers stand by and watch as Israeli settlers go on the rampage. The situation is so bad that a boy like Yousef Ikhlayl, 17, can be killed and there is no investigation or accountability.

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Egypt Constitution-Writing Panel to Vote on Final Draft of New National Charter in November

posted October 17, 2012 by IKHWANWEB Freedom and Justice Party leader and member of the charter-authoring committee Ahmed Diab assures: the new document takes into account all feedback received through community dialogue. Hossam Ghariani, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly (CA) tasked with drawing up Egypt’s first post-revolution national charter, said CA members will begin the

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