TEHRAN – The Singaporean president has said that his country will stand by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency and other international organizations. Sellapan Ramanathan made the remarks during a…
Category: Global Issues
By Nader Entessar: As I mentioned in my previous writings, the wave of recent developments in the Middle East is a sociopolitical tsunami which will have many different and unpredictable consequences on the foreign policy…
By Simon Tisdall: Behind closed doors in the White House and the Pentagon, a battle is raging over the wisdom of a complete exit. American soldiers at a checkpoint outside the village of Talukan, Kandahar…
The media are heavily criticizing Venezuela’s economic and military cooperation with Russia and China. At the moment the country’s defense capabilities are bled as a result of the sanctions imposed by Washington on Cavim, the key Venezuelan defense corporation. The explanation is that Washington hates to see other players eat away at its share of the arms market.
By M K Bhadrakumar: Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville last week as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside…
On June 2, one of the participants at the conference, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates talked a lot about U.S.-China relations with reporters on his private plane; he talked softly but with hard opinions….
America has caught people’s attention by recently taking a series of actions: First, Obama has nominated CIA Director Leon Panetta to be the next Secertary of Defense; second, U.S. special forces have killed bin Laden…
By Press TV: Venezuela has severed its relations with the U.S. after Washington imposed sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company for supplying gasoline to Iran. According to examiner.com, Venezuela officially “froze” relations with the…
By Dr. Robert P. Abele: Even to the casual observer, the last thirty years has witnessed a revolution in American media, 1 No longer fulfilling the valued democratic function of “the fourth…
NATO airstrikes against Libya have already surpassed 8,000 NATO launched nearly 3,200 attacks with depleted uranium bombs against civilians in Libya. This is the denunciation of the special envoy of Telesur, Rolando Segura. The…