Politics

Hundreds of Greek pensioners and workers have staged rallies in the capital, Athens, against the government’s plan to overhaul the country’s pension system. On Friday, hundreds of public sector workers and pensioners marched in the city center in protest against the…

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party is under attack, again. It is really a testimony to his resilience that he is not only going ahead with the real agenda of trying to undo the draconian damage being…

AFSC: Diplomacy best answer to North Korea’s nuclear test PUBLISHED: JANUARY 7, 2016 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is deeply troubled by reports that North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6. As longstanding opponents of nuclear…

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal* 5 January 2016 (IPS) – The “big five” – i.e., the most military powerful states on earth (US, UK, France, Russia and China) have just agreed that it would be about time to end…

After Saudi Arabia executed Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday along with 46 others, protesters in the Iranian capital of Tehran responded by torching part of the Saudi Embassy. On Sunday, Saudi Arabia responded by severing ties with Iran.…

Human Wrongs Watch By Catherine Shakdam* 3 January 2016 (RT) – Set up as a modern Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr’s death needs to be seen as a harbinger of war – a ploy that would allow…

Human Wrongs Watch By Francesco Farnè*  ROME, 1 January 2016 (IPS) – “Water is at the core of the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA), but it is true that for a long time water and oceans issues have been marginalized in…

Human Wrongs Watch By Emma Bonino* ROME, 1 January 2016  (IPS) – The appalling crisis ravaging the Middle East and striking terror around the world is a clear challenge to the West, but responses are uncoordinated. This is due on…

Fighting amongst neighboring peoples has been endemic throughout the history of humanity.  From biblical clashes in Assyria to the civil war raging in Syria today, there is always turmoil brewing between two or more rival ethnic groups.  They can take…

America Is Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed — Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts One hundred years ago European civilization, as it had been known, was ending its life in the Great War, later renamed World War I.…