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8 March 2012 10:38:55 — williambowles.info
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‘We support Syria but don’t send them arms’ – Iranian deputy FM
Russiatoday.ru Today at 11:54
Syria is an important state in the resistance axis against US-Israeli domination and Iran would not allow America to use unrest in the country to upset the balance of power in the region, says an Iranian Deputy Foreign…
6 February 2012 — Asia Times
If a date needs to fixed marking the end of “post-Soviet era” in world politics, it might fall on February 4, 2012. Russia and China’s double veto of the Arab League resolution on Syria in the United Nations Security Council constitutes a watershed event.
27 December 2011
15 October 2011 — Daily Mail
The real reason Liam Fox had to resign was not a grubby little money scandal about firms funding Adam Werritty as he jetted round the world with the Defence Secretary. It was much more important, and much worse, than that.
9 October 2011 — williambowles.info
Blake wooed genocidal Sri Lanka Army to help Afghan war says Wikileaks
Sri Lanka Guardian
Earlier Wikileaks documents have revealed how an international orchestration was masterminded by the US for the Vanni war that ended up in genocide and paved way for the on-going structural genocide of the nation of Lankan Tamils. …
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/10/blake-wooed-genocidal-sri-lanka-army-to.html
13 December, 2010 — IPS
CLIMATE CHANGE: Emissions Punted to Durban, Breakthrough Seen on Forests
Stephen Leahy* – IPS/TerraViva
CANCÚN, Mexico, Dec 11 – If success is measured by delaying difficult decisions, then the Cancún climate meeting succeeded by deferring crucial issues over financing and new targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the next Conference of the Parties meeting a year from now in Durban, South Africa.
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6 October, 2010 — CounterCurrents
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More Nato Trucks Burnt In Pakistan
By Aljazeera
Armed men in Pakistan have burned 22 tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, killing a lorry driver, according to police
http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera061010.htm
PA: Latest Israeli Soldier Video ‘Deeply Offensive’
By Ma’an News
A personal film showing an Israeli soldier dancing around a Palestinian woman uploaded to YouTube on Monday “is a disgusting illustration of the sick mentality of the occupier,” a Palestinian Authority statement said
http://www.countercurrents.org/maan061010.htm
3 September, 2010 — CounterCurrents
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Oil Rig Explodes Off The Louisiana Coast
By Kate Randall
An offshore oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday morning off the shore of Louisiana, sending 13 workers jumping into the water to be rescued by boat. Firefighters battled the flames on the rig’s platform throughout the day and had extinguished the fire by Thursday afternoon
http://www.countercurrents.org/randall030910.htm
10 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents
I’m sending you some horrific pictures of the genocide of the Tamil People by the Sri Lankan army during the closing stages of the devastating civil war. I’m sorry to send them. But, that’s what the reality is!
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Grisly Photos Reveal The Genocide Of Tamil People
In Sri Lanka
By Muthamizh Vendhan
Peviously banned photos from May 2009 Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka is published with this report: they are EXTREMELY GRAPHIC, not appropriate for kids
http://www.countercurrents.org/vendhan100810.htm
26 July, 2010 — Inter Press Service
MALAWI: Government Money-Saving Measure Costs Traders Dearly
Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE, Jul 26 – The Malawian government?s new cost-cutting prohibition on the hosting of conferences, training sessions and workshops on the shores of Lake Malawi has hit small-scale merchants who ply their trade on the roadsides and beaches of the fresh-water lake.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52269
SRI LANKA: War Over, But Women Wage Battle For Survival
Amantha Perera
VAHARAI, Sri Lanka, Jul 25 – It was a typically hot, humid day in this eastern coastal village. The sun burned down from a cloudless sky, roasting the skin as an angry sea breeze swatted the faces of the few foolish enough to venture out onto the deserted main road that runs through town.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52262
SRI LANKA: After Decades of Bloodshed, Home Calls
Amantha Perera
PERIYAPILLUMALLAI, Sri Lanka, Jul 6 – For almost two decades, Athanayakemudiyanselage Punchibanda lived without hope of ever returning here to his native village.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52058
Gender Meet Ends on High Note with New “U.N. Women”
Hannah Rubenstein
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 2 – Nearly 50 government delegations spent the past week at U.N. headquarters in New York hashing over the progress that has been made and challenges that remain in pursuing gender parity worldwide, one of the crucial elements of the Millennium Development Goals.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52040
U.N. Chief Heading for New Brawl over Sri Lanka Panel
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 2 – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading for a second round of political brawling with the powerful 118-member Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) over his decision to appoint a panel of experts to advise him on possible violations of humanitarian law by the Sri Lankan military during the concluding stages of its war against Tamil separatists last May.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52038
RIGHTS: Poor Foreigners Working Like “Modern Slaves” in Mauritius
Nasseem Ackburally
PORT LOUIS, Jul 2 – Workers from Bangladesh have helped Mauritius to achieve the economic success and world market share that the Indian Ocean island state boasts about. But many live and work in conditions described as akin to “modern slavery”, apart from facing discrimination, the denial of labour rights and even violence.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52034
‘This Is Worse Than Guantanamo’
Pavol Stracansky
BRATISLAVA, Jul 2 – A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner at a refugee detention centre in Slovakia has said he is prepared to die in hunger strike after living five months in conditions he says are worse than in the infamous U.S. prison.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52033
PERU: ‘Don’t Minimise’ Impacts of Amazon Oil Spill
Milagros Salazar
LIMA , Jul 1 – Pluspetrol’s Jun. 19 petroleum spill has left the Marañón River, in the Peruvian Amazon, with oil and grease levels thousands of times greater than the maximum allowed for human consumption, affecting more than 4,000 local residents.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52029
KENYA: Tradition an Obstacle to Maternal Health
Isaiah Esipisu
TURKANA DISTRICT, Kenya
Jul 1 – Their kangas and heavy bead necklaces are the only colour in an arid landscape. The weary women waiting outside the Kangatotha dispensary have walked up to 50 kilometres to receive food aid; now they will walk home carrying their share.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52028
BRAZIL: Belo Monte Dam Means Floods for Some, Drought for Others
Mario Osava
ALTAMIRA, Brazil, Jul 1 – “There will be two years of abundance, and then famine,” says Brazilian indigenous leader José Carlos Arara, laying bare his opinion of the promises that the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam will not alter the living conditions of the people in this part of the eastern Amazon.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52021
Talks Hit a Rock Called East Jerusalem
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
SILWAN, Occupied East Jerusalem, Jun 30 – The sound of stun grenades and gunfire resounded through this embattled Palestinian neighbourhood. Amidst increased tension over plans to tighten Israel’s grip over the occupied eastern part of the city, Israeli border police and Palestinian youths confronted each other all through Sunday night. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded, mostly from tear gas inhalation; six policemen were hurt by stones.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51998
Iranian Diaspora Struggles to Find Unified Voice
Barbara Slavin
WASHINGTON, Jun 29 – Iranians should be forgiven for not coming out en masse to demonstrate on the anniversary of their disputed presidential elections.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51991
Unmanned Drones – Targeted Killing vs. “Collateral Murder”
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 29 – When a Pakistani-U.S. national pleaded guilty last week to a failed attempt to detonate explosives packed in a vehicle in the heart of New York City, he admitted that one of the reasons he targeted the busy Times Square neighbourhood was to “injure and kill” as many people as possible.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51988
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The world’s indigenous peoples are making themselves heard in international arenas, and at the national level, where their growing mobilisation is translating into political muscle. But many challenges remain in the fight for recognition of all their rights.
RELIGION-TURKEY: Alevi Future Bleak Despite Equality Moves
By Daan Bauwens
ANKARA (IPS) – A political initiative to eliminate discrimination against the Alevi, Turkey’s main religious minority, risks being stymied by the Diyanet, the country’s powerful religious body that does not recognise anything but Sunni Islam.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50351
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POLITICS: U.N. Climate Chief Quits Post
By Stephen Leahy*
UXBRIDGE, Canada (Tierramerica) – Countries have largely failed to endorse the Copenhagen Climate accord by the Jan. 31 deadline. On Thursday, the key official in the United Nations climate treaty process announced his resignation.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50391
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Thousands Of Tamils Still In Detention Camps By Subash Somachandran & Kamal Rasenthiran
http://www.countercurrents.org/rasenthiran190210.htm
Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians, who fled the fighting in the final days of the military’s offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), remain in squalid detention camps in northern Sri Lanka. The official total is 106,000, with around 80,000 people still in the Manik Farm camps near the town of Vavuniya. After the LTTE’s defeat last May, the army rounded up 280,000 men, women and children and put them in detention centres surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers. No one was permitted to leave
Three In A Million – Voices From The Haitian Camps By Bill Quigley
http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley190210.htm
The United Nations reported there are 1.2 million people living in “spontaneous settlements” or homeless camps around Port au Prince. Three people living in the camps spoke with this author this week, before the hard rains hit
The Sleeping Catastrophe: HIV/AIDS In An Already Devastated Haiti By Matayo Moshi
http://www.countercurrents.org/moshi190210.htm
With the nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince, now in ruins and the vestiges of health care infrastructure all but destroyed, little care is available to those who need it most, especially those requiring specialized assistance, this includes the 120,000 Haitian people currently living with or affected by HIV/AIDS
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