Rebuff the United States’ entreaties regarding sanctions against Iran, then nonchalantly cross the Sunni-Shi’ite divide in the Persian Gulf while sidestepping the Arab Spring altogether and vaguely greeting Islamism, and all this as solo acts…
Category: Regions
For the last twenty years, Somalia has been entangled in a “civil war” amidst the destruction of both its rural and urban economies. The country is now facing widespread famine. According to reports, tens of…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120116/06-34-00-ftp-nick-tripoli-new.flv] When a fog of war clears, it looks something like this. It’s just still not that obvious who is taking responsibility between NATO and the National Transitional Council for the deaths of six people…
In the final days of the Libyan conflict, as NATO conducted a nonstop bombing campaign, an Al Jazeera Arabic television correspondent’s actions raised more than eyebrows. They also raised serious questions regarding the journalistic responsibility…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120116/02-25-00-ftp-karim-cairo.flv] Hundreds of protesters and revolutionary activists demonstrated outside the Cairo Criminal Court to call for the release of the activists summoned by the general prosecutor over their alleged involvement in the 6-day street war…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120115/04-52-00-ftp-ramin-paris.flv] The axe has finally fallen on France’s AAA credit rating, and it many believe it will signal the end of the Sarkozy era in France. The president’s approval ratings have hovered around 30 percent…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120115/04-21-00-ftp-max-rome.flv] On Saturday, a national demonstration against racism took place in Rome. Nobody is a foreigner and all immigrants are entitled to the admission and residence permit was the message the organizer of the demonstration…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120115/01-05-00-sng-narges-london.flv] David Cameron has made his first visit to Saudi Arabia since becoming Prime Minister. There was no fanfare to the trip – but there was a lot of controversy. Cameron travelled with no reporters,…
The recession ruined Linda Ruggles’ business and she has been selling plasma twice a week since to make ends meet. The blood bank couldn’t bail her out from behind bars though, which is where she…
The eve of 2012 was marked by simultaneous adoption of two decisions on Russia taken by the European Court of Human Rights. The both of them quite remarkable going far beyond ordinary complaints. The first…