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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
 The United States is clandestinely funding militant groups within Iran's borders to destabilize the country, The Daily Telegraph says. According to the daily, CIA officials are secretly funding militias among the numerous ethnic minorities clustered in Iran's border regions in order to mount pressure on the country to give up its nuclear program. Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now "no great secret", according to one former high-ranking CIA official in Washington speaking anonymously to The Sunday Telegraph. Be first to comment this article
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
 Passengers travelling between EU countries or taking domestic flights would have to hand over a mass of personal information, including their mobile phone numbers and credit card details, as part of a new package of security measures being demanded by the British government. The data would be stored for 13 years and used to "profile" suspects. Brussels officials are already considering controversial anti-terror plans that
would collect up to 19 pieces of information on every air passenger entering or leaving the EU. Under a controversial agreement reached last summer with the US department of homeland security, the EU already supplies the same information [19 pieces] to Washington for all passengers flying between Europe and the US.Be first to comment this article |
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
 For the first time U.S. President George W. Bush said recently his country would not seek to build new military bases in Africa, nor will it set up headquarters for the command on African soil, amid overwhelmingly strong opposition from African countries. Speaking in Ghana on the fourth leg of a five-nation African tour, Bush said the U.S. military command for Africa (Africom) created last year was intended to help African leaders solve the continent's crises, not boost the U.S. military presence there.Be first to comment this article |
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 Britain and France have officially introduced the text for a new UN Security Council resolution calling for further sanctions against Iran, over what they term, ‘Iran’s refusal to halt its nuclear program’. This call for a new resolution is despite the fact that Iran has been subjected to and has entertained the most extensive inspections in the history of the IAEA and has continuously maintained that its nuclear program is exclusively for
peaceful purposes. Up to date, no such evidence has been found to contradict this official declaration by Iran.Be first to comment this article |
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 Hassan Juma'a, President of the Iraqi Oil Workers Union will be speaking with Ibrahim Mousawi, editor of a journal linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah for their only meeting in London. This meeting is a chance to hear key figures from the Middle East and leading activists and writers from Britain discuss the impact of the War on Terror and the continuing campaign to get the troops out. Five years after the invasion of Iraq the world has become a much more dangerous place. As many as one million people have been killed during the occupation of Iraq. The country’s infrastructure is in shreds. Gordon Brown has promised British withdrawals, but there are still 5,000 British soldiers in Iraq. The only reason they are staying there is to give political cover to George Bush’s continuing occupation.Be first to comment this article |
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 Formal recognition of Kosovo as an independent state by the EU or NATO obligates Moscow to resort to 'brute force,' Russia's envoy to NATO says. In a video link-up from Brussels Dmitry Rogozin said, "if the European Union works out a common position, or if NATO breaches its mandate in Kosovo, these organizations will be in conflict with the United Nations," Interfax news agency reported.
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 David Miliband loves democracy. We all love democracy. We also love capitalism, social welfare, child health, book learning and leatherback turtles. We would like the whole world to love them too, and we stand ready to persuade
it so. But do we shoot anyone who refuses?
It is hardly credible that two centuries since Immanuel Kant wrestled with this oldest of ethical conundrums, a British government still cannot tell the difference between espousing a moral imperative and enforcing one.
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 Furious Serbs protesting at western support for Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence set fire to the American embassy in Belgrade last night, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converged on the Serbian
capital. The attack on the embassy came after hundreds of protesters, watched passively by police, peeled away from the main rally to invade the building in the centre of the capital, using sticks and metal bars.Be first to comment this article |
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