Open Letter to Nobel Laureates: A Plea to Exonerate Wikileaks’ Assange and Manning
By Rafik Saley, Okoth Osewe, John Goss, and Patrick Haseldine The honorable 2012 Nobel Prize Laureates will, on December 10, receive their awards in Oslo and Stockholm from the hands of royalty, under the eyes of a global audience in a ceremony, the focus of which falls particularly on the Kingdom of Sweden. Far away […]
Haiti’s Gold Rush: An Ecological Crime in the Making
Show me a corporate boss who calls Haiti the “poorest country in the western hemisphere,” and I’ll show you a con artist preparing to fleece Haiti. Likewise, show me a western technocrat who bemoans Haiti’s “dramatic deforestation due to charcoal production” and I’ll show a bio-pirate or vandal preparing to wreck the country’s remaining cloud-forest […]
Morsi’s Coup in Egypt: Is the Middle-East Headed for a Muslim Brotherhood Takeover?
Was Morsi’s coup a payoff from Washington for brokering the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel? Today, Egypt went back to square one, as if the Egyptian Revolution never happened. Egyptians now have a new Mubarak in the person of President Morsi. Morsi has assumed extended power over all the branches of government, including the judiciary. […]
Axis of Death Penalty: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the United States
Who says the United States, Iran and North Korea cannot agree on anything? Most of us remember one of George W. Bush’s “classic” speeches in front of the United Nations when he defined Iran, Venezuela and North Korea as “the Axis of Evil”. In the case of the death penalty, however, the US, Iran and […]
G. Mercier on RT: Israel Attack on Gaza Is Worse Than a Crime, It’s a Blunder
Russia Today Interview of Gilbert Mercier, Editor in Chief of News Junkie Post On Friday, November 16, Gilbert Mercier, who has written the best analyses of the geopolitical situation unfolding in the Middle East, was called on to share his thoughts with RT International. Mercier has written a series of articles warning that the situation […]
