North America
Zachary Fillingham - Mar 11, 10
This backgrounder will examine the international nuclear nonproliferation regime; specifically the origins, benefits, and drawbacks of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Increasingly obvious loopholes and a looming NPT review conference in May are coming together to make 2010 a watershed year for the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
Admin - Mar 10, 10
March 9th (BBC News) - A Pennsylvania woman in her late 40s has been charged with terror offences including using the internet to recruit militants for deadly attacks abroad.
Rick Rozoff - Mar 09, 10
2010 is the tenth and deadliest year in Washington’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for targeted assassinations and untargeted “collateral damage.”
Admin - Mar 08, 10
March 7th (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a five-year spending plan with cuts to defense, international aid and government operations in a bid to be the first Group of Seven country to erase its deficit after the global financial crisis.
Admin - Mar 05, 10
Mar. 4 (BBC News) - A US Congressional committee is debating a resolution to label as genocide the killing of Armenians by Turkish forces during World War I.
F. William Engdahl - Mar 04, 10
The decision of the US Federal Reserve to raise its key interest rate was definitely not a sign of confidence in the US economic recovery or a signal that Fed policy is slowly returning to normal as claimed. It was rather a signal of panic over the weakness in US Government bond markets, the heart of the dollar financial system.
Admin - Mar 02, 10
Mar. 1st (BBC News) - US President Barack Obama is planning "dramatic reductions" in the country's nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official has said.
Admin - Feb 25, 10
Feb. 24 (BBC News) - Cuba's leader Raul Castro "laments" the death of a detained activist who had been on hunger strike for nearly three months, its foreign ministry says.
Rick Rozoff - Feb 19, 10
The United States, separately and through the military bloc it controls, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is accelerating military deployments and provocations throughout Eurasia and the Middle East.
Admin - Feb 19, 10
Feb. 18 (Al Jazeera) - Barack Obama, the US president, has met the Dalai Lama, despite a warning from China that talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could strain ties.
