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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 People switched off lights around the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels and restaurants to show concern with global warming. Up to 30 million people were expected to have switched off their lights for 60 minutes by the time "Earth Hour" -- which started in Suva in Fiji and Christchurch in New Zealand -- has completed its cycle westward."Earth Hour shows that everyday people are prepared to pull together to find a solution to climate change. It can be done," said James Leape of WWF International which was running the campaign. Organizers of Earth Hour said that while switching off a light for one hour would have little impact on carbon emissions, the fact that so many people were taking part showed how much interest and concern at the climate crisis had taken hold. Be first to comment this article
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 A few months ago, a report was published entitled "Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership". It was written by five generals and it proposes a new vision for the NATO alliance and a strengthening of ties between the United States and the European Union. The report outlines the major security threats facing the world today and it asserts that NATO, in spite of its shortcomings, remains the most effective body for confronting these threats. On the whole, the report contains an unabashed support for increased militarism and an arrogant endorsement of continuing Western hegemony throughout the world. The "Western way of life" must be preserved at all costs and those groups and/or nations which pose a threat to Western dominance must be wiped off the face of the earth.Comments (3) |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
 Fighting rocked two Iraq cities on Thursday as security forces battled militiamen for a third day in clashes that left at least 130 people dead, while saboteurs blew up a key oil export pipeline. Fighting which began on Tuesday in Basra when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his troops to crack down on "lawless gangs", spread on Thursday to the central city of Kut, police said. In Basra, where clashes broke out in a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr soon after dawn, saboteurs blew up one of Iraq's two main oil export pipelines, an official said.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 Hillary Clinton has been forced to admit she exaggerated claims of coming under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the 1990s after video footage showed the then first lady walking calmly from her plane. The Clinton campaign played down the episode as a "misstatement" and a "minor blip". But it was seized on by supporters of her rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, as further evidence of Clinton inflating her foreign policy experience during her time in the White House.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 France has sacked a senior civil servant over publishing an anti-Israeli diatribe on a web site, the interior ministry announced. Bruno Guigue wrote in an online column this month that Israel was the only regime that allows "snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates," AFP reported. Guigue, author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also wrote of the "Israeli jails where -- thanks to religious law -- they stop torturing on the Sabbath."Comments (1) |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday that the opposition is determined to reach a political settlement to Lebanon's ongoing political crisis. In what was described as the most moderate of his recent speeches, Nasrallah stressed that the period that will follow the upcoming Arab summit in Damascus will not be any different from the current period. "The opposition is keen on reaching a compromise irrespective of the summit," he said. Nasrallah spoke of expected initiatives by the opposition, referring to recent remarks by his allies, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun.Be first to comment this article |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
 On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Bush's illegal war of aggression in Iraq, the Fabricator-in-Chief made a speech at the Pentagon, whose muzzled army chiefs had opposed his costly, ruinous adventure from the start for
strategic, tactical and logistical reasons. strategic, tactical and logistical reasons. As benefits the dictatorial monarch of yesteryear, evicted by America's first patriots, this modern-day King George blistered the truth, somersaulted the facts and declared that a "strategic victory" in Iraq is near.Be first to comment this article |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
 Israel and the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, may engage in a new war next summer, Israeli security sources have revealed. “Hezbollah and Israel are increasingly heightening their levels of readiness
against each other,” the sources said in an interview with Nablus TV network. “Such a situation will increase the probability of a war particularly at a time when Hezbollah is preparing itself to deal a crushing blow to Israel in response to the recent incidents,” they expounded according to Press TV's Beirut Bureau on Saturday.Be first to comment this article |
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