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If Obama visits Hiroshima – part 1
If Obama visits Hiroshima – Part 1 By Richard Falk, TFF Associate There are mounting hopes that Barack Obama will use the occasion of the Group of 7 meeting in Japan next month to visit Hiroshima, and become the first…
China, Russia & India unite against US intervention in Asia Pacific
The statement cautions against the internationalization of the disputes By Ankit Panda, www.thediplomat.com Two days ago, in Moscow, the foreign ministers of India, Russia, and China released a joint communique outlining areas of trilateral agreement between the three countries. As I…
We stand with the Marshall Islands
Yesterday marked two years since the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) took a courageous stand against the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations. On April 24, 2014, the RMI filed nine groundbreaking lawsuits at the International Court of Justice and another…
Developing Countries Take Lead at Climate Change Agreement Signing
Human Wrongs Watch By Lyndal Rowlands* UNITED NATIONS, 22 April 2016 (IPS) – An unprecedented 175 countries are expected to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement here Friday 22 April, with 15 developing countries taking the lead by also ratifying…
2016 World Press Freedom Index
Reporters Without Borders 2016 World Press Freedom Index 1Finland8.59 2Netherlands8.76 3Norway8.79 4Denmark8.89 5New Zealand10.01 6Costa Rica11.10 7Switzerland11.76 8Sweden12.33 9Ireland12.40 10Jamaica12.45 11Austria13.18 12Slovakia13.26 13Belgium14.18 14Estonia14.31 15Luxembourg14.43 16Germany14.80 17Namibia15.15 18Canada15.26 19Iceland15.30 20Uruguay15.88 21Czech Republic16.66 22Surinam16.70 23Portugal17.27 24Latvia17.38 25Australia17.84 26Ghana17.95 27Cyprus18.26 28Liechtenstein18.36 29Samoa18.80…
Infants starving in squalor created by EU-Turkey Refugee deal
Asylum seekers—mostly women and children—are trapped in Greece in conditions so inhumane that infants’ lives are being endangered, rights groups say by Nika Knight, staff writer for Common Dreams Conditions for refugees have deteriorated in Greece in the wake of…
Live from Damascus: The Syrian election results
Live from Damascus: The Syrian Election Results By Ken Stone “Syria’s ruling Ba’ath Party and its allies have won the majority of the votes in the recent parliamentary elections in the country, official results show. The Syrian electoral commission announced…
Only the people should be able to keep or bring down Dilma and other politicians elected in Brazil
They want to bring Dilma down through an impeachment trial decided by federal deputies. For us, as humanists, politicians don’t represent us. This form of impeachment in which the people don’t decide is an institutional coup d’état, one power (legislative)…
Noam Chomsky – German weapons exports to Israel & Saudi Arabia and the refugee crisis
By Zain Raza for AcTVism In this video MIT professor, anarchist, political philosopher and renowned linguist, Noam Chomsky, discusses the impacts of German arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and Israel. He also talks about the refugee and Syrian…
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation: Opportunities and Threats
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation: Opportunities and Threats On the Occasion of the 13th OIC Summit in Istanbul By Hassan Beheshtipour, Expert on International Issues Summary Holding of the 13th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Turkish port…
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