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AIC Awarded Follow the Women Prize 2013

jeudi 23 mai 2013 par Alternative Information Center — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

The Alternative Information Center (AIC) has been awarded the 2013 Follow the Women Prize for its work on behalf of peace between people through dialogue and reflection. The award is given annually by Follow the Women – Denmark, the Danish section of an international organization with women from (...)

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Are We Closer to a Middle East Regional War?

mercredi 22 mai 2013 par Sergio Yahni — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

Local and international analysts believe the rising military tensions along the Israel-Syria cease-fire line are an outcome of the ongoing war in Syria and Israeli attempts to block delivery of Syrian weapons to Hezbollah. However, latest developments may indicate that Israel is preparing for a (...)

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Pakistan Elections: Democracy, Dichotomies, and Shades of Grey

mardi 21 mai 2013 par Beena Sarwar — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

The recent elections in Pakistan show that the country is finally on the right track notwithstanding the rigging, the violence and the brutal prevention of women from voting in some areas by representatives of all the political parties. The huge turnout of women and first time young voters (...)

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“Neo-Colonial Land-Grab”

dimanche 19 mai 2013 par Aman Sethi — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

Last August, Ojulu sat smoking a cigarette outside his thatch-roofed hut in Pino village when a rising tide of water seeped through the reed fence. “The water came in the morning,” Ojulu said, “And stayed for a month.” As Ojulu and his neighbours scrambled to higher ground the Baro river swirled (...)

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Hawking and a Brief History of Boycotts

jeudi 16 mai 2013 par Ramzy Baroud — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where (...)

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A Good Day For Democracy

lundi 13 mai 2013 par Feroz Mehdi — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

May 11, 2013 was an important day for Pakistan and a good day for democracy. My five years old daughter will remember this day when she grows up, not only because it is her birth day but also because it was a promising day for the people of her mother's country of birth. General elections were (...)

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Interview: Phyllis Bennis on Stephen Hawking

vendredi 10 mai 2013 — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. And welcome to this edition of The Bennis Report with Phyllis Bennis, who now joins us from Washington, D.C. Phyllis is a fellow and the director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for (...)

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Naya Pakistan, An Old Fable

vendredi 10 mai 2013 par Ayesha Siddiqa — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

The renowned television anchor Quatrina Hosain was in tears. A day after the incident of her being sexually assaulted at a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) jalsa by party workers in Wah Cantonement, she talked about how the bruises may heal but not her emotional scars. She was covering election (...)

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Stephen Hawking: Furore Deepens over Israel Boycott

jeudi 9 mai 2013 par Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kalman in Israel, and Sam Jones — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

The celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking became embroiled in a deepening furore today over his decision to boycott a prestigious conference in Israel in protest over the state's occupation of Palestine. Hawking, a world-renowned scientist and bestselling author who has had motor neurone disease (...)

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The U.S. and Chemical Weapons: No Leg to Stand On

jeudi 2 mai 2013 par Stephen Zunes — NEWS AND ANALYSIS

If, as alleged, the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons, it would indeed be a serious development, constituting a breach of the Geneva Protocol of 1925, one of the world's most important disarmament treaties, which banned the use of chemical weapons. In 1993, the international community (...)

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