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Eight Elements of a Culture of Peace
This week, as minds here in New York and elsewhere are inevitably drawn back to 9/11 and its aftermath, the U.N. General Assembly (GA) will once again discuss the worldwide promoting a Culture of...
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Diplomatic Fiasco: Canada Severs Relations with Iran
By Bryan Gibson via The Majalla Recently, the Canadian government severed ties with Iran, citing threats to its diplomats in Tehran. While Israel has hailed the decision as a “clarion call to action”,...
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Meanwhile in Iran
via Lobe Log This lonely press briefing issued today by the United Nations about ongoing political imprisonment in Iran reminds us that the more the international community focuses on Iran’s nuclear...
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Is sanctions relief really on the table?
via Lobe Log The Guardian is reporting that a ”reformulated” proposal including “limited sanctions relief” will be launched by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (p5+1)...
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On what a Second-Term President Obama should do with Iran
via Lobe Log George Washington Political Science Professor Mark Lynch in Foreign Policy: With military action in the background but not imminent, and sanctions taking a real political and economic toll...
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Q&A: “The Israeli Boycott Movement Is Not Anti-Semitic”
via IPS News Rabbi Brant Rosen leads a congregation in Evanston, Illinois and is author of the new book, Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity. Speaking with Mitchell...
View ArticleSyrian Crisis: Carnage to Intensify
via Lobe Log The UN High Commission for Human Rights now believes 60,000 Syrians have been killed since March 2011 (far more than claimed by the Syrian opposition) and that death rates have been rising...
View ArticleObama Should Reconsider US Approach to Bahrain
via Lobe Log Justice is a fiction in much of the Persian Gulf. Nowhere is this truer than in Bahrain, a place where torture and state terror have become the norm. The country’s political elites talk...
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Iran’s Journalist Arrests Bode ill for 2013 Presidential Election
via Lobe Log Since Saturday, more than a dozen young journalists working for five reformist newspapers and journals, one news agency (Iranian labor News Agency or ILNA), and one website (Baztab), have...
View ArticleObama and Bahrain: How to Save Al-Khalifa Rule
by Emile Nakhleh via IPS News Despite the start of a government-inspired dialogue with the opposition Sunday, the Bahraini government continues to jail dissidents, arrest demonstrators, and use a...
View ArticleWhat about Women in Iraq?
via Lobe Log by Jasmin Ramsey This week was marked by Iraq war commentary, but the status of women in the country was noticeably absent on the 10th anniversary of the invasion. Enter the International...
View ArticleWhy Iran’s June Election Will be Different
via Lobe Log by Omid Memarian Traditionally, a few months before a presidential election in Iran, the government opens the public sphere, giving more freedom to the press, more space for activists to...
View ArticleObama Narrows Scope of Terror War
by Jim Lobe via IPS News Responding to growing criticism by human rights groups and foreign governments, U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday announced potentially significant shifts in what his...
View ArticleThe Turkish Defense of Democracy
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick The Turkish government and its leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have only themselves to blame for both the widening protests gripping Turkey, and the...
View ArticleLibya: More Violent, Unstable & Uncertain
via LobeLog by Wayne White Nearly a year after the Benghazi attack and almost two since Muammar al-Qadhafi’s fall, Libya remains a governmental basket case. Political assassinations and militia...
View ArticleBahraini Opposition Shuns Bogus Dialogue
by Emile Nakhleh via IPS News Bahraini opposition groups announced on Tuesday their opposition to participating in the dialogue that is supposed to start tomorrow. According to the Bahrain Mirror, the...
View ArticleWomen’s Rights Are Linked to U.S.-Iran Negotiations
by Fariba Parsa via IPS News While U.S. and Iranian negotiators prepare for another round of nuclear talks in Geneva next month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been silent about another matter...
View ArticleEmmerson Report Asks the Right Questions on US Drone Strikes
via LobeLog by Tyler Cullis Earlier this month the UN Special Rapporteur for Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, Ben Emmerson, released his annual report to the UN Human Rights Council (the “Emmerson...
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Humanitarian Issues Ignored by Crisis-Stricken Venezuelan Government
From the IPS United Nations Niewsbriefs Despite escalating tensions and anti-government demonstrations, the Venezuelan government has not addressed any human rights issues regardless of the rising...
View ArticleEgypt’s Death Sentences Test US Resolve
by Emile Nakhleh The summary mass trial and conviction of 529 Egyptians to death this week is yet another example of Egypt’s descent into lawlessness and blatant miscarriage of justice. The rushed...
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