For a change, I don’t want to discuss politics. I don’t want to debate whether big bad Mugabe is actually an African national hero, as many on this continent believe, or some brutal dictator, as…
Category: Russia
UN’s 2013 human development report urges action on climate change, deforestation and pollution before it is too late The number of people living in extreme poverty could increase by up to 3 billion by 2050…
The Vatican conclave has elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio? In 1973, he had been appointed “Provincial” of Argentina for the Society of Jesus. In this capacity,…
The pervasive news surrounding the confirmation hearing of John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for CIA director, is paralleled by another, related story that has been largely ignored by the U.S. media. That is the story of…
Russia´s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calls the report of the independent commission of inquiry biased, arming the Syrian opposition illegal, and states that opposition needs to appoint a team for negotiations. Russian – US/NATO relations have…
Controversy Concerning the Korean Armistice Agreement: “A State of War Still Remains in Effect” The New York Times (3/8/13), writing about Korean tensions, reported: The North said this week that it considered the…
On March 11, 2006, President Slobodan Milosevic died in a NATO prison. No one has been held accountable for his death. In the 7 years since the end of the lonely struggle to…
KCNA Commentary Blasts U.S. and Its Allies’ Cyber Attacks There are very disturbing developments against the backdrop of the ever mounting moves of the U.S. and its allies to stifle the DPRK. Intensive…
DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Slams UN Secretary General’s Invectives Hurting Its Sovereignty: He should observe neutrality, impartiality and objectivity in his work, to begin with, as becoming his position. A spokesman for the Foreign…
The Venezuelan president himself, before he died, wondered aloud whether the US government – or the banksters who own it – gave him, and its other leading Latin American enemies, cancer. A little over a year ago, Chavez went on Venezuelan national radio and said: “I don’t know but… it is very odd that we have seen Lugo affected by cancer, Dilma when she was a candidate, me, going into an election year, not long ago Lula and now Cristina… It is very hard to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some leaders in Latin America. It’s at the very least strange, very strange.”