By Dr. Ismail Salami | Global Research | November 21, 2014 The not-very-independent UN body has made a mockery of justice by soldering a resolution on the so-called human rights violations in Iran. The farce becomes more markedly absurd when you consider the plethora of human rights abuses going unpunished in the world with the UN…
By Bruce Gagnon | Global Research | November 20, 2014 The American revolution was supposed to have happened because of the revulsion our ‘founding fathers’ had with the institution of ‘divine right of kings’ or monarchy. Supposedly the new American nation went to war with England because a revolutionary ‘democracy’ was the preferred way of organizing our…
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times | 14 Nov 2014 If there were any remaining doubts about the unlimited stupidity Western corporate media is capable of dishing out, the highlight of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing has been defined as Russian President Vladimir Putin supposedly “hitting” on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife –…
By Patrick L. Smith | Salon | 14 Nov 2014 By way of events on the foreign side, the past few weeks start to resemble some once-in-a-while event in the heavens when everyone is supposed to go out and watch as the sun, moon and stars align. There are lots of things happening, and if…
by Steven Swinford | The Telegraph | November 15, 2014 Western leaders blame Putin for instability caused by Soros Vladimir Putin is set to leave the G20 summit early after a tense meeting with David Cameron over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. The Russian president is reportedly planning to leave the summit early on Sunday…
Barbara Demick | The New Yorker | 12 Nov 2014 North Korea’s government rarely does anything for free. Aid agencies working in the country are routinely asked to contribute expensive trucks and equipment. In 2005, the Pentagon suspended a search for the remains of U.S. soldiers declared missing in action during the Korean War after…
RT | 10 Nov 2014 Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has given a chilling assessment of a new geopolitical situation taking shape amid the Ukrainian crisis, warning of a possible new Cold War and calling the West’s approach to the crisis a “fatal mistake.” The 91-year-old diplomat characterized the tense relations as exhibiting…
Ishaan Tharoor | Washington Post | 7 Nov 2014 (Washington Post) Last week, Sweden became the 135th member of the United Nations to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state. The act sparked a tetchy diplomatic incident with Israel, which WorldViews discussed here. On the ground, a separate, viable Palestinian state is far from a reality. Israel occupies the…
RT | 6 Nov The killing of nine Gaza Freedom Flotilla protesters in 2010 by Israeli forces lacked “sufficient gravity” to come under its jurisdiction, the ICC said, adding that there was reason to suspect war crimes were committed. “Following a thorough legal and factual analysis of the information available, I have concluded that there…
by Patrick Barron | Mises.org | November 3, 2014 Destructive economic forces at work in NATO expansion The economic phenomenon known as the “tragedy of the commons” instructs us that commonly-held resources that are insufficiently protected will be plundered to extinction. The phenomenon was recognized in the early nineteenth century to explain why the…