The United Nations and its Security Council are pursuing the interests of colonial powers, a leading human rights activist tells Press TV. “[The] United Nations with its structures of Security Council and permanent members and the veto, it is in reality a tool of colonial powers and we need to change that,” Massoud Shadjareh, from […]
Syria is holding presidential elections amid the country’s ongoing civil war. Voting will only take place in areas controlled by the regime – opposition areas in the northern and eastern parts of the country are boycotting the vote. This is the first time in decades than more than one name has appeared on the ballot paper
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President Obama has announced a plan to invest $1 billion in stepping up its military presence in Eastern Europe amid the Ukrainian crisis. The White House will send more troops and equipment to the region to “reaffirm” its commitment to NATO allies. Speaking at a news conference in Warsaw, Obama said America was stepping up
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by Joachim Hagopian Sustaining the US Empire’s Killing Machine. The Modus Operandi of US Led Wars In late May 2014, President Obama rolled out his foreign policy initiatives at West Point and said nothing new. Every lie he uttered is just a retread cover for the same old, same old disastrous foreign policy the
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The following is the full text of the speech delivered on May 27, 2014 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting with government officials and the ambassadors of Islamic countries in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The meeting was held on the occasion of Mab’ath. In the Name
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by Pepe Escobar The BRICS countries are creating a new global architecture that challenges the exceptionalist, unipolar world that Washington imagines for our future. Hong Kong—A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of the Eurasian land mass—at the expense
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Likely president tells editors to give officials the chance to do their jobs before exposing corruption. Al Jazeera’s journalists stand accused of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood [AP] Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has warned newspaper editors not to press for freedom of speech and other rights. Sisi, the likely winner of the election later
by Paul Krugman “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty, is a bona fide phenomenon. Other books on economics have been best sellers, but Mr. Piketty’s contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best sellers aren’t. And conservatives are terrified. Thus James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute warns
by Martin Wolf The giant hole at the heart of our market economies needs to be plugged Printing counterfeit banknotes is illegal, but creating private money is not. The interdependence between the state and the businesses that can do this is the source of much of the instability of our economies. It could –
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by Fawaz Gerges Had Assad declined to run for a third term, he’d have shown that the country’s future is more important than one man. Recent visitors to the presidential compound in Damascus say that Assad seems very confident and convinced that military victory is near, writes Gerges [EPA] As the fighting escalates on the killing
