Pakistan: ISI Ties With The Taliban Are Nothing New
A new report, released today, is creating a stir and will make an already complex relationship between the United States and Pakistan even more problematic. According to a British researcher, Matt Waldman, who is a former Oxfam official, Pakistan’s all powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) “appears to be playing a double game of astonishing magnitude” says […]
Obama: Letting Down Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injuries
During his presidential campaign, candidate Obama made many promises to veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. However, a new investigative report conducted by ProPublica and NPR shows that President Obama has failed to deliver on most of his promises made as a candidate in term of giving veterans the health care they so desperately need and […]
Global Solutions: Let’s Play “Grown-Ups.”
You can’t solve environmental or social problems if you can’t rationally discuss realistic solutions. Any hope of finding a real solution is abandoned in favour of feeling marginally better today. Whether due to ignorance or an inner sense of hopelessness this approach advocates placebos and panaceas. Far from being a positive, empowering approach, it screams of despair as well as causing it.
Israel: Thousands Protest Gaza Blockade
On Saturday, thousands of Israeli demonstrators held a march and a rally in Tel Aviv to protest, not only the blockade of the Gaza strip but also 43 years of Israel’s occupation of the West-Bank. The protesters marched between Rabin Square to the Tel Aviv museum where speeches were given. The main slogan of the […]
UN’s Ban Ki-Moon Calls On Israel To Lift The Blockade On Gaza
Yesterday, the United Nations Human Rights Council decided to send an independent fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law resulting from the Israeli attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza. The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution strongly condemning the attack by a vote of 32 in favor to 3 against […]
