Home > Keywords > International > International

International

  • IAEA chief criticizes Israeli threats on Iran
    8 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    IAEA chief criticizes Israeli threats on Iran
    ’Unilateral military actions undermine international agreements,’ ElBardei tells German weekly Der Spiegel in reference to Israeli aerial strike on Syrian nuclear facility in September and Mofaz’s threats regarding possible attack on Iran. Tehran demands UN action on threats
    Ynet
    Latest Update: 06.07.08, 22:41 / Israel News
    "With unilateral military actions, countries are undermining international agreements, and we are at a historic (…)

  • Israel Bars Norman Finkelstein for Ten Years (Democracy Now)
    8 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    DEMOCRACYNOW May 29, 2008
    Israel Bars One of its Most Prominent Critics, Norman Finkelstein, for Ten Years
    Norman Finkelstein was arrested and deported from Israel last week and told he’s barred for ten years. Finkelstein is known as one of the most prominent academic critics of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We speak to Finkelstein and the human rights worker he was on his way to visit, Musa Abu Hashhash.
    Guests:
    Norman Finkelstein, Author of several books, (…)

  • Dozens hurt in South Korea beef protest
    7 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dozens hurt in South Korea beef protest
    By JAE-SOON CHANG – 3 hours ago
    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens were injured in the largest protest yet over an agreement to resume U.S. beef imports to South Korea, according to authorities and media reports Saturday.
    A crowd estimated by police at 65,000 demonstrated in central Seoul on Friday night. Some marched on a road leading to the presidential Blue House but were blocked by a barricade of police buses.
    Riot police later clashed with (…)

  • Iraq : Animals Too Struggle for Survival by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
    6 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service (IPS) June 05, 2008 FALLUJAH, Jun 5 (IPS) - Amidst the huge and growing death toll, it has been easy to forget that animals, in their own way, are finding it hard to survive in Iraq. "Like human beings, animals find it very hard to stay alive now," Dr. Sammy Hashim, a veterinarian who lives and works west of Baghdad, between Fallujah and the capital city, told IPS. "Naturally, no one cares for the poor animals when nobody seems to care even for human beings under the (…)

  • Child Labor : 11 year-old Halima sews clothing for Hanes
    5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: cbae.nmsu.edu
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-20121603.html

  • Five Years on, Saddam’s Successor Resurfaces
    5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Addouri Outlines Anti-U.S. Strategy, Tactics of Resistance
    By Nicola Nasser*
    For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, in a lengthy interview with Abdel-Azim Manaf, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Mawqif Al-Arabi, not a mainstream, on May 26 to lay out the strategy and tactics of the Iraqi resistance (…)

  • IRAQ : Death Toll ’Above Highest Estimates’ By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*
    4 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service (IPS) June 2 2008
    The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say.
    A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000.
    Source: www.worldproutassembly.org
    Just Foreign (…)

  • Video : Palestinian “Al Nakba” Commemorated on National Mall
    2 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sunday, June 1, 2008, on the National Mall, in Washington, DC, a ceremony was held to commemorate—The Catastrophe—know as “Al Nakba.” It represents the forceful expulsion, in 1948, of 750,000 Palestinians from their ancestral homeland to “make way for the state of Israel.” Ms. Dina Shan’ak shared her views about “Al Nakba.” She was raised in a UN refugee camp in Lebanon. Her family was expelled, via “ethnic cleansing,” from their ancient village of Taytaba, in the District of Safad, in (…)

  • 1/3 Oz forces quit Iraq - but Oz STILL in Iraqi & Afghan Genocides
    2 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia has now withdrawn one third of Australian forces from the Iraq War, withdrawing 550 but leaving 1,000 to continue Australian participation in the Iraqi Holocaust, the Iraqi Genocide (2 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths, 4.5 million Iraqi refugees).
    War criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, racist White Australia remains committed to indefinite military occupation of Iraq - as if a whole ethnically cleansed continent and half of Antarctica were not enough for this greedy, (…)

  • Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads
    1 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian – Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations at Gaza’s crossing points with Israel are not an aggressive demonstration of self-confidence, but more a show of defensive despair and weakness against the tight Israeli military siege, as much as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ threats to resign are (…)