Afghanistan: Political Limbo Two Months After The Elections
The announcement of a final result of Afghanistan’s elections has been dragging on for the past two months. The official result was supposed to come on Saturday, but has been postponed again for several days as the international pressure is mounting. The Election Complaints Commission, which includes foreign observers, has been investigating widespread election fraud, […]
Racism Is Still Alive In America
A Louisiana judge, Keith Bardwell, from the Tangipahoa parish is yet another symptom that racism is still a problem in America in 2009, despite the election of the first African-American President.
UN’s Human Rights Council Endorses Gaza War Report & Condemns Israel
Today the United Nations Human Rights Council strongly condemned a host of Israeli measures in the occupied Palestinian territory and called on both sides to implement the recommendations of a UN commission that found that Israel and Hamas committed serious war crimes in the 3 weeks Gaza war 9 months ago. The commission, led by […]
Afghanistan: Was Italy Paying Off The Taliban Insurrection?
According to a report published in the British press today, the Italian secret service was paying off Taliban forces not to attack their troops in the Sarobi district of Afghanistan. Ten French soldiers died last year after failing to understand the risk in the area. The French forces thought they were taking control a relatively quiet part of the country. The Times claims this was because Italy’s secret service had been secretly paying local Taliban leaders in order to keep violence down.
Hunger Affects 1.02 Billion People Worldwide
The global economic crisis has a devastating effect for the world’s undernourished. The sharp spike in hunger triggered by the global economic crisis has hit the poorest people in developing countries hardest, revealing a fragile world food system in urgent need of reform, according to a report released today by the Food & Agriculture Organization […]
