Category: UN

MERcosur Foreign Ministers Issue Alert at UN on Serious Nature of US Espionage

Ronda Hauben on

The foreign ministers of the five MERCOSUR member countries came to the United Nations on Monday, August 5 to issue an important warning to the international community. MERCOSUR is the Southern Common Market made up of the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela. The five Ministers had a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The purpose of the meeting was to explain to the Secretary General, their countries’ concern over what they referred to as the “acts of espionage carried out by intelligence agencies of the United States of America which affect all countries in the region.” The Ministers presented Ban Ki Moon with a resolution on this issue passed at the meeting of MERCOSUR on July 12, 2013.(1) After they met with Ban Ki-moon, the five Foreign Ministers held a press conference.

Western-Backed “Freedom Fighters” Executed Syrian Children

Christof Lehmann, nsnbc on

Western and Gulf-Arab backed “Freedom Fighters” of the al-Qaeda linked “The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham” publicly executed two children who were not older than 13 years-old, in Aleppo. Syria´s Prime Minister al-Halqi describes the attempted…

An Idiot’s Guide to a “State of War” in the Korean Peninsula

Dale Han on

Author’s note: Please don’t get offended by being called an idiot…I derived  the word ‘idiot’ from Greek word, idiotes, which refers to ‘a private person’ …as distinguished from the public person like bureaucrat, congressman, or President. An idiot follows the rules and orders that…

What National Interest? WHO Controls America? And FOR WHOSE INTEREST?

Lawrence Davidson / The 4th Media News on

Part I – National Interest or Lobby Interest? President Obama and his congressional colleagues are carrying on an established, yet clearly dangerous, tradition of U.S. foreign policy — the mixing up of national interest and the parochial interests of powerful lobby groups. Indeed, given the way U.S. federal politics has long operated, national interest is, except in rare cases, an impossible notion. This is because almost all politicians and both political parties are so tied to, and financially dependent upon, powerful lobby groups that they cannot formulate independent positions on issues important to these lobbies.