Posts Tagged ‘UN’
The West’s War Crimes are Much Greater than Israel’s
YNet | By Shaul Rosenfeld | 30 July 2010 Hypocrisy’s finest hour Revelations of West’s crimes in Afghanistan highlight anti-Israel hypocrisy In an interview with PBS earlier this year, Richard Goldstone was quite amazed by a question regarding the suspicion that he and others may, heaven forbid, adopt a double standard in respect to [...]
Remembering the only use of nuclear weapons, killing 215,000 innocent civilians
RIA Novosti | 29 July 2010 UN chief to pay tribute to victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Japan next week to pay tribute to the victims of U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II and hold talks with the country's government, UN spokesman [...]
U.S. soldiers know they have lost, only the politicans are in denial
New Statesman | By William Dalrymple | 22 June 2010 Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain’s imperial defeat. In 1843, shortly after his return from [...]
Iran calls for democracy, not fascism, at the world level
Reuters | By Robert Evans | 19 July 2010 Iran calls for world body free of big power control (Reuters) - Senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, whose country is under strong pressure from the United Nations over its nuclear program, called on Monday for a more powerful global body free of big-power domination. Speaking to an audience [...]
Atrocities in Gaza:Racism a key factor
The Sun (Malaysia) | By K. K. Tan | 15 January 2009 THE barbaric behaviour of the warmongering Zionist regime in Israel in its military operations and treatment of Palestinian civilians in Gaza can best be explained in one word – racism. Let it be clear from the onset that this article is not attacking Jews or Judaism per se and it [...]
A German Critique of Obama’s War
Globkult Magazin | By Walther Stützle | 16 April 2010 (Lecture and discussion. East-West Forum - Gut Gödelitz, January 23, 2010) Afghanistan — The Failed Invasion (Translated from the German) English Translation: Afghanistan – The Failed Invasion I. False Start | II. Balance | III. Way out | IV. Concept Original in German: Afghanistan [...]
CIA drone operators commit “murder in violation of the laws of war”
Antiwar | By William Fisher | 1 June 2010 US Drone Strikes Draw International Scrutiny On the heels of reports that the Barack Obama administration altered a new manual on military commission rules to accommodate an illegal drone program, a senior United Nations official is expected to call on the U.S. this week to stop Central Intelligence [...]
What If Iran Had Carried out the Gaza Carnage?
Pravda.ru | By Kourosh Ziabari | 1 June 2010 It's not unjustifiable to consider Israel as the absolute incarnation of fraudulence, relentlessness and brutality. Since its establishment, the Zionist regime has carried out actions which contravene the international regulations and cancel out the human rights in a way or another. Only a brief [...]
UN Closes Mission in the Afghan city of Kandahar
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova (tr. from Portuguese) | 29 April 2010 Insecurity forces UN out of Kandahar The prevailing insecurity has forced on Tuesday (27/04) the UN to withdraw foreign staff and close its mission in the conflictive southern Afghan city of Kandahar, in the south of the territory, an offensive aimed at U.S. and NATO. The [...]
Occupied Afghanistan: World’s Top Producer of Opium and Hashish
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 1 April 2010 NATO’s Afghanistan: The Champion of Drugs Production We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a [...]
