Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
Fozil Mashrab
23rd March, 2012
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – As international forces prepare for withdrawal from Afghanistan, Western countries are already in talks with Afghanistan’s Central Asian neighbors to bring their troops and military equipment back home.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
21st March, 2012
The Egyptian Ambassador to Occupied Palestinian Territories Yasser Othman has announced that the Israel-blockaded Gaza Strip will be connected to Egypt’s power grid within the next four to five months.
In a Wednesday interview with Saudi Arabian newspaper, Al-Sharq, Othman said that Egypt and Gaza would start work on connecting their power grids within a few weeks.
“This will lead to a real relief for the deepening crisis in the Gaza Strip,” he said.
He explained that the plan to end Gaza’s power crisis was a two-phased one.
During the first phase, Egypt will supply diesel to Gaza’s sole power plant and in the next one, which will take 18 months to complete, Gaza will be connected to a regional power grid in Egypt.
Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, causing a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
The full-scale land, aerial, and naval siege has turned the enclave into the world’s largest open-air prison.
In mid-February, Egypt blocked the flow of diesel through the tunnels lying beneath its border with Gaza, which are used to transfer supplies into the impoverished coastal sliver amid the siege.
The stoppage forced the territory’s sole electricity power plant out of work, causing the enclave to start experiencing blackouts of up to 18 hours a day.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
A Year Later, HRW Admits Syrian Rebels Guilty of Atrocities Kidnapping, Torture, & Murder of Civilians by Syrian Opposition Confirmed.
Tony Cartalucci
20th March, 2012
Human Right Watch (HRW), just as it did in Libya, waited until the very last possible moment to admit what the alternative media had been reporting for over a year – that Syria’s rebels are craven, torturing, kidnapping, murdering terrorists committing widespread and systematic atrocities not only against security forces, but against anyone suspected of supporting the Syrian government as well as randomly targeted civilians.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
20th March, 2012
The Syrian opposition is acting with instructions from “decision makers” abroad, Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari claims in exclusive interview with RT.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
21st March, 2012
What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live. Sadly, feeding the homeless has been banned in major cities all over America. Other cities that have not banned it outright have put so many requirements on those that want to feed the homeless (acquiring expensive permits, taking food preparation courses, etc.) that feeding the homeless has become “out of reach” for most average people. Some cities are doing these things because they are concerned about the “health risks” of the food being distributed by ordinary “do-gooders”. Other cities are passing these laws because they do not want homeless people congregating in city centers where they know that they will be fed. But at a time when poverty and government dependence are soaring to unprecedented levels, is it really a good idea to ban people from helping those that are hurting?
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
22nd March, 2012
BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) — China said here on Wednesday that equal, patient, andadequate consultations could yield consensus within the United Nations (UN) SecurityCouncil to address the Syria issue.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
22nd March, 2012
MOSCOW, (SANA)- Russia expressed deep concern over human rights violations committed by armed groups affiliated to the Syrian opposition against the civilian citizens in Syria, violations which were recently highlighted in an open letter recently published by Human Rights Watch (HRW), stressing the necessity to investigate into these abuses and implement tougher penalties against the perpetrators.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2012
Manlio Dinucci
20th March, 2012
Un an après la guerre de Libye, nul ne souhaite tirer un bilan. Les puissances coloniales parlaient de soutenir une révolution démocratique contre un tyran. En réalité, elles ont à nouveau divisé le pays et remis au pouvoir en Cyrénaïque la dynastie des Senussi. La Jamahiriya, mélange hybride d’anarchie proudhonienne et d’autocratie, a laissé la place à un chaos libéral où la torture et le meurtre sont devenus la norme tandis que les compagnies multinationales se goinfrent.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2012
20th March, 2012
The ‘club’ of emerging economies known as the BRICS are strengthening their union. The countries are mulling over setting up a single development bank to promote joint investment initiatives, as well as their domestic currencies.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2012
India is happy to host the 4th BRICS Summit in New Delhi in 2012 and extends a warm welcome to all delegates and mediapersons.
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Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2012
Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
18th March, 2012
The leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the gently named but dangerous behemoth dominated by the United States – and history’s largest global military cohort – plan to meet in Chicago on May 20 and 21.
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