International issues

By Johan Galtung*, 3 Sep 2012, TRANSCEND –  The Israeli attack seems imminent. Richard Silverstein circulates a leaked “shock and awe” strategy of Netanyahu‑Barak hard zionism to decapitate, paralyze Iran; and Alon Ben‑Meir (an expert on Middle East politics specializing in…

By Martin E. Hellman* At first, it might seem inconceivable that tiny Malta could lead the world in solving an issue as momentous as nuclear disarmament. To see that possibility requires recognising that nuclear disarmament is a process involving a…

By ANND* The Arab region has been witnessing a period of change and quest for new societal relations between the citizen and the state, based on respect of fundamental freedoms, rights, dignity, and rule of law. Along the multiplicity of…

During the last week of August and first days of September, the Tokarev Institute, member of the World Center of Humanist Studies, is sending a letter to all Heads of State and Government. The letter addresses the innermost profundity of human…

In a message implicitly addressed to Iran for its repeated threats against Israel and which might also have been indirectly referring to Tel Aviv’s reported plans to launch a military attack on Iran, the UN chief condemned in Tehran “threats…

The Israel public has been bombarded with hawkish statements regarding the situation with Iran and the drum roll of war is echoing in the ears of every Israeli citizen, according to local peace and disarmament campaigners. The Israeli government has…

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.

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.

The arrival of Lt. Gen. Vicente Díaz de Villegas who claimed to have retired and to be traveling as an ordinary tourist to Venezuela naturally put Sebin, the country’s intelligence service, on alert. Villegas cited tourism as the purpose of the visit and journalism as his occupation in the entry form, and stopped at the Alba hotel,

For a couple of hundred dollars or less an arms dealer can illegally source a blank end user certificate with the required signatures and stamps – needed to transfer weapons across international borders – and “if no one checks its authenticity (often the case) he can ship his wares to the world’s hotspots with minimal risk, for maximum profit,” said the SAS in 2008.