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International Declaration 2012 World Conference against A and H Bombs

2012 World Conference against A and H Bombs was held successfully on Aug. 2-9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Declaration of the International Meeting Sixty-seven years after the US atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 20,000 nuclear weapons…

Why Democracy needs Assanges

[media-credit name=”http://bit.ly/TKeZrP” align=”alignnone” width=”300″][/media-credit]As Ecuador offers asylum to Julian Assange at its London Embassy with the Foreign Office doing Olympic-size legal somersaults to try to justify storming it, we hear that both the UK and the US have been helping…

Occupy Central Hong Kong’s last stand

Under the already grey superstructures of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp Central building on the afternoon of 27 August, 2012, there was an air of desolation lifting from the sad chairs and tables, grimy tents. The incumbents were…

Home Global Issues Germany Pledges to Revitalize Nuke Disarmament Germany Pledges to Revitalize Nuke Disarmament

By Ramesh Jaura The Geneva UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) has been turned into a talking shop because of the vested interests of a few mighty states without whose consent no genuine nuclear disarmament, not to speak of abolition of…

2012 World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

Sixty-seven years after the US atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 20,000 nuclear weapons are still threatening the very survival of the human race. This threat must be rooted out as soon as possible. We call on people around the world to work together to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. The accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011 has brought the horror of the nuclear dangers into sharper relief. We extend our solidarity with all nuclear victims.

Banks and Politics Do Not Mix Well

Hardly a week goes by without the disclosure of some scandal related to banks. Now British Standard Chartered has been accused by an American regulator of having schemed with the Iranian government to launder billions of dollars for the potential…

The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking?

An article by Charlie Skelton

The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections.

Official media echo the lies of the military in Colombia

It would only occur to Commander Jerez compare pushes and shouts at the soldiers to bullets, the death of our loved ones, the occupation of our homes, accusations and false positives against our communities. However it appears that not only the commander uses the strategy of lies and manipulation because to this instant all media have echoes these maligned declarations.

Turnover of Global Organized Crime: $870 Billion… a Year

The annual turnover of transnational organized criminal activities such as drug trafficking, counterfeiting, illegal arms trade and the smuggling of immigrants is estimated at around $870 billion, the UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said.

Greece: Migrants Scared to Go Out for Fear of Being Attacked

Athens – The Greek authorities are failing to tackle a rising wave of xenophobic violence that has left migrants afraid to walk the streets, says a [Human Rights Watch report](http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/10/greece-migrants-describe-fear-streets).

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