Posts Tagged war
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 29, 2009
by Anup Shah, Global Issues
Despite decades of conflict, death and tragedy, coverage of issues in Africa has often been ignored, oversimplified, or excessively focused on limited aspects. Deeper analysis, background and context has often been lacking, so despite what seems like constant images of starving children in famines, news of billions in aid [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 28th 2009
The United Nations has warned Washington about indiscriminate use of drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying that it may be breaking humanitarian law.
The UN rights investigator said the United States has done nothing to demonstrate that its not randomly killing civilians in violation of international law through the use of drones.
“My concern [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 16, 2009
PressTv- The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a resolution, endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, despite efforts by Israeli leaders to block the motion.
On Friday, 25 member-states of the council voted for the resolution, six voted against and 11 abstained. The “draft resolution … is therefore adopted,” UNHRC President [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 29, 2009
NewsRescue- It happened not too long ago. They held a meeting in Belgium at the invite of the very evil King Leopold II. The theme was- to colonize the dark Africa continent and ‘civilize’ them, because them ‘barbarians’ were not civilized.
This history of imperialism is all too clear, and decades of pillaging of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 21st, 2009; GlobalResearch.ca:
The Story of My Shoe
by Mutadhar al-Zaidi
Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave this speech on his recent release.
In the name of God, the most gracious and most merciful.
Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war.
Firstly, I give my thanks [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Update; September 6, 2009
NewsRescue- Ok, let’s analyze this-
In my country, when people, be they gangsters, the mob, rogues or armed robbers, steal something. The risk and recompense is a road and/or copter chase by the security forces and apprehension or a shoot-out in attempt to apprehend or kill.
In Afghanistan, when you steal, the risk or [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 17th, 2009
NewsRescue- The article below and related articles raise pertinent questions- 1. Is the United States promoting a breakup, in what’s known as the ’tissue scarcity scare’ scenario, where the suggestion and promotion of a concept leads to its manifestation. Nigerians skeptical about the possibility of a breakup get reassured that best analysis from [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Story from Independent.co.uk
Inside France’s secret war
For 40 years, the French government has been fighting a secret war in Africa, hidden not only from its people, but from the world. It has led the French to slaughter democrats, install dictator after dictator – and to fund and fuel the most vicious genocide since the Nazis. Today, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
A former US soldier convicted of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family, has been jailed for life,
after a jury failed to agree on a death sentence.
Steven Dale Green, 24, was convicted two weeks ago of the crimes near Baghdad, where he and his unit were serving in 2006.
The jury of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over “unusual” burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial
U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country’s top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used.
The American military denied using the incendiary in the battle in Farah province — which President Hamid Karzai has said killed [...]