Over the past few weeks, the international diplomatic scene has been again taken over by the Syrian crisis. A double veto occurred in the U.N. Security Council, the General Assembly voted on a resolution and…
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Syria has been in turmoil since March 2011. Western countries have intervened in Syria in a high-profile manner since the beginning of the turmoil, first imposing unilateral sanctions on the Bashar al-Assad government, then presenting…
Image: Free Syrian Army “peace soldiers” Nearly a year ago, Western-backed insurgent violence erupted. Heavily armed foreign fighters supplemented internal ones. Al Qaeda’s very much involved. Russian and Chinese peace initiatives are spurned. Washington, rogue…
Part I -The Monday meeting Why did the current president of the UN General Assembly (GA), Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser of Qatar, call a special meeting of the General Assembly on February 13, a…
The Special Issue (vol 21 no 1) of the Amateur Computerist on Netizen Journalism and the story of the resistance to the NATO aggression against Libya is now available at the ACN website.The url is:…
Up until the Arab League Observer Mission had been sent to Syria on December 24, 2011, there had been two main narratives describing what was happening in Syria. One was that the violence in Syria…
Admonition to the Security Council: “First Do No Harm.” (The Russian Ambassador) “They were careless people – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it…
Lies and Double Standards: Crimes against Humanity: Syria or US? Shortly before 1PM EST, February 4, Reuters headlined, “Russia, China veto UN resolution telling Assad to quit,” saying: The diplomatic “setback” came the day after…
On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the African position on the attack – in reality, bombing by their traditional imperial aggressors: France and Britain, joined by the U.S., which initially coordinated the assault, and marginally some other nations. It should be recalled that there were two interventions. The first, under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973, adopted on March 17, called for a no-fly zone, a cease-fire and measures to protect civilians. After a few moments, that intervention was cast aside as the imperial triumvirate joined the rebel army, serving as its air force.
[Editorial] As today’s Russian Pravda news reports, in its May 10th’s article “NATO Is Ready for a Land Operation in Libya,” it seems US/NATO gets so close to their “land invasion” plan in Libya. According…