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Assad forces intensify crackdown on Idlib

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Mar. 12 (News Report) - Syrian government troops have shelled areas in and around the northern city of Idlib, as part of a campaign to crush the opposition in its stronghold along the border with Turkey. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a n

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Syria rejects Arab League transition plan

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Syria has condemned a new Arab League initiative that calls on President Bashar al-Assad to cede power by holding early elections and forming a "national unity government". Syrian state television, quoting an unnamed official source, said early on Monday

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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

billingsgazette.com - By Brett French - Jan. 05 (News Report) - Yellowstone National Park has asked its fundraising partners to come up with $1 million a year for six years to expand its lake trout eradication effort at Yellowstone Lake, and by 2022 the park may need to import grizzly bears from other regions to increase the animals’ genetic diversity Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/yellowstone-says-it-may-need-to-import-grizzlies-to-improve/article_cab0939e-363e-56db-8a66-2dfeaa60ff77.html#ixzz1ic4jJBtC

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Invisible millions pay price of statelessness

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSN.com - Aug. 24 (Investigative Report) - Rejected by the countries they call home and denied the most basic of rights, stateless people live in a shadowy limbo — in the words of one, like being "between the earth and the sky." ...

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Haiti: WikiLeaks Cables Expose How U.S. Blocked Aristide's Return After 2004 Coup

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 11 (Investigative Report) - A new exposé on Haiti reveals how the United States led a vast international campaign to prevent former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to his country while he was exiled in South Africa. It’s part of a series of reports by The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly Haïti Liberté that draw from almost 2,000 U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti released by WikiLeaks. The cables show that high-level U.S. and U.N. officials coordinated a politically motivated prosecution of Aristide to prevent him from "gaining more traction with the Haitian population and returning to Haiti."

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UN astounded by rate of population growth

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populationconnection.org - By Tanya Nolan - May. 10 (News) - The United Nations says the world's population is growing faster than expected and predicts it will hit seven billion by the end of this year. That's an increase of one billion people in just 12 years. And the UN warns there are particular risks for Africa where the population is expected to triple by the end of the century, exacerbating problems of access to food and clean water.

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Budget Cuts Funds for Poor, Police, Environment and Health Care

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Lisa Mascaro - Apr. 13 (News Report) - The previously undisclosed reductions stunned advocates for community health centers, foreign aid and climate change research. Among the cuts is a $500-million reduction in funding for the federal health and nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC.

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Libya No-Fly Zone Approved By U.N. Security Council

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Edith Lederer - Mar. 18 (News) - The United Nations Security Council has voted 10-0-5 to impose a no-fly zone on Libya.

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A UN First! Both Israel and Palestine Co-Sponsor Resolution Condemning Libya Violence

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

UN Dispatch - By Mark Leon Goldberg - Feb. 23 (News) - I have just obtained the copy of a draft resolution from the Human Rights Council that strongly condemns the violence in Libya. What is more significant than the substance of the resolution is the broad degree of support it has received by a diverse set of members.

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Fox News Boss Ordered Staff To Cast Doubt On Climate Change Science

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Dec. 15 (News Report) - A top Fox News editor sent an email to staffers and journalists questioning the science behind global warming and directing them to always point out on air that the theory has its skeptics. Media Matters obtained the memo. It is the second such email the organization has released in as many weeks. Like the last one, the global warming memo came from Bill Sammon, Fox News' Washington managing editor. Sammon was also the author of an email directing journalists to use the phrase "government option" instead of "public option."

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Prominent Indigenous Environmental Leader Tom Goldtooth Blocked from U.N. Climate Talks

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 09 (News Report) - One of the most prominent North American indigenous activists attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancún was blocked from entering the summit on Wednesday, one day after he publicly criticized the U.N. process. Tom Goldtooth, the executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, who had received credentials from the United Nations, was denied entry and then removed from the summit grounds.

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Haitians Barricading Streets With Coffins as Protests Against U.N. Continue Over Cholera Outbreak

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Ansel Herz - Nov. 18 (News Report) - Protests are continuing in Haiti over the cholera outbreak that has now killed more than 1,100 people and infected some 17,000. On Wednesday, residents in the city of Cap-Haitien clashed with U.N. troops for the third consecutive day. Crowds have taken to the streets expressing anger at the Haitian government and the United Nations for failing to contain the disease. We go to Cap-Haitien to speak with independent journalist Ansel Herz.

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As cholera worsens, violence breaks out in Haiti

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ezra Fieser - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Anger over the cholera outbreak led to violent demonstrations today as protesters set fire to a police station and clashed with U.N. forces in Cap-Haitien, a city on the north coast. One protester was killed. Many Haitians blame a Nepalese U.N. contingent for causing the outbreak when sewage from their camp leaked into the Artibonite.

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Who's funding Al Shabaab's war in Somalia?

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tristan McConnell - Nov. 05 (Investigative Report) - Somalia's Al Shabaab rebels have stepped up fighting in Mogadishu with support from international sources. Here Somali women demonstrate their support of Al Shabaab in Mogadishu.

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Battle for Mogadishu escalates

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tristan McConnell - Oct. 28 (Special Report) - The fighting is the worst the city has seen in almost 20 years. Somalia's stateless chaos first began when the military regime of Mohamed Siad Barre collapsed in 1991. Since Al Shabaab carried out double suicide bombings killing 79 football fans in Kampala in July, the 7,000 mostly Ugandan peacekeepers have fought back hard.

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Tentherism: The Bizarre Ideology Behind Tea Partiers' Plans to Kill Social Security and Child Labor Laws

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 25 (Special Report) - More than seventy years ago, the Supreme Court abandoned a brief, disastrous experiment with "tentherism," a constitutional theory that early twentieth century justices wielded to protect monopolies, strip workers of their right to organize and knock down child labor laws. This discredited constitutional theory is back -- with a vengeance --

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UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israeli Killing of US Citizen was "Execution"

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Gareth Porter - Oct. 01 (News Report) - The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.

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Draft UN Report Accuses Rwandan Troops of Committing Genocide in the Congo

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Peter Erlinder - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Rwanda is facing explosive allegations from the United Nations of committing war crimes and possibly even genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A leaked report from the UN high commissioner for human rights says that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Tutsi-led Rwandan troops and their rebel allies killed tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group inside the Congo.

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Gasoline Shortage in Iran Threatens Regime

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Ryan Mauro - Aug. 01 (News Report) - The problems keep piling up for the Iranian regime. It has lost its very important backers in the bazaars who went on strike to protest a massive tax increase. In the most underreported Iran-related story, workers continue to go on strikes at factories around the country. Now, the regime is facing a gasoline shortage that is causing even more angst among the populace.

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ElBaradei Says Sanctions on Iran Will Fail

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By C. M. Sennott - Apr. 30 (News) - Medford, Mass. ? Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, believes it is likely the international community will move to impose tougher sanctions on Iran. But the genteel, bespectacled diplomat, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for his tireless efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, is just as convinced that sanctions will fail.read more

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Is the CIA Assassination Order of a US Citizen Legal?

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Apr. 08 (News Analysis) - US officials have confirmed a Yemen-based Muslim cleric has become the first US citizen added to a CIA list of targets for capture or killing. Anwar al-Awlaki is a US-born cleric accused of having ties to the failed Christmas Day airline bombing and the shooting at Fort Hood. Many legal experts have questioned the legality of the assassination order under US and international law. We speak with Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions.

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Climate Change Special

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Link TV - Dec. 18 (Special Report) - Was climate change avoidable, or is it the inevitable result of human progress? The latest science from the United Nations Environment program predicts that will warm by four degrees Celsius by as early as 2060 -- even if industrialized countries keep their most ambitious policy pledges.

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Obama Tries to Rally U.N. Climate Conference, but Deadlock Persists

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Climatewire - By Darren Samuelsohn, Lisa Friedman - Dec. 18 (News Report) - President Obama exhorted world leaders today "not to talk, but to act" as they scrambled in the closing hours of a historic U.N. global warming summit to salvage an agreement to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Carbon Footprint Of The Copenhagen Climate Conference

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

causecast.org - By Sarah Nelson - Dec. 07 (News Report) - With the Climate Conference in Copenhagen kicking off today, the world is abuzz with hope and skepticism of what the outcome of the summit might hold. A big question surfacing is the amount of carbon waste that could potentially be generated by the 12 day conference, which is being held to find a solution to the global climate crisis. Oh, the irony.

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Copenhagen prostitutes offer freebies to climate change delegates

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

FP - Dec. 04 (News Report) - Der Spiegel reports that Copenhagen's mayor has sent postcards to local hotels asking delegates to the upcoming climate conference not to patronize prostitues during their stay in the city. But the city's sex workers are not taking this...er...lying

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