Rebuff the United States’ entreaties regarding sanctions against Iran, then nonchalantly cross the Sunni-Shi’ite divide in the Persian Gulf while sidestepping the Arab Spring altogether and vaguely greeting Islamism, and all this as solo acts…
Category: Europe
In the final days of the Libyan conflict, as NATO conducted a nonstop bombing campaign, an Al Jazeera Arabic television correspondent’s actions raised more than eyebrows. They also raised serious questions regarding the journalistic responsibility…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120115/04-52-00-ftp-ramin-paris.flv] The axe has finally fallen on France’s AAA credit rating, and it many believe it will signal the end of the Sarkozy era in France. The president’s approval ratings have hovered around 30 percent…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120115/04-21-00-ftp-max-rome.flv] On Saturday, a national demonstration against racism took place in Rome. Nobody is a foreigner and all immigrants are entitled to the admission and residence permit was the message the organizer of the demonstration…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120115/01-05-00-sng-narges-london.flv] David Cameron has made his first visit to Saudi Arabia since becoming Prime Minister. There was no fanfare to the trip – but there was a lot of controversy. Cameron travelled with no reporters,…
The eve of 2012 was marked by simultaneous adoption of two decisions on Russia taken by the European Court of Human Rights. The both of them quite remarkable going far beyond ordinary complaints. The first…
One of the major flaws with some western writers is that, there is a common lack of detail studied and understanding of policy development on the respective issues in the developing countries such as China:…
Regime change in Syria is a strategic prize that outstrips Libya – which is why Saudi Arabia and the west are playing their part This summer a senior Saudi official told John Hannah, Dick Cheney’s…
Transcript – Public Lecture – Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 Kuala Lumpur – Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America in seventeen…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in their inspection role for compliance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has their November 2011 report in similar misleading language as their February 2010 report. IAEA appears to be…