Posts Tagged ‘snub’

U.N.’s legal expert: Obama’s proposed trade deals ‘Illegal’ and ‘have zero democratic legitimacy’

     Alfred de Zayas, the U.N.’s Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, is assigned the task to apply the standards of international law to proposed treaties, to determine whether they’re in accord with international law. On Friday, June 24th, he issued his finding on three large proposed treaties regarding […]

Open letter to McGill University’s Suzanne Fortier: Rectify your misrepresentation of BDS

Dear Professor Fortier, After the recent General Assembly vote for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and its subsequent failure to be ratified by the Students Society of McGill University (SSMU) you released a statement in which you write that the BDS movement “flies in the face of the tolerance and respect we cherish as values […]

Mess In The Middle East

NATO has been plunged into a new Middle East crisis, following the shooting down of the Russian Su-24 warplane in disputed airspace by Turkey. The incident marks a serious escalation in tensions between NATO-allied countries and Russia amid differing strategies in the fight against ISIS that now seem to be coming to a head. Washingtonpost.com reports: […]

The cats of Ariel and the deranged politics of Israel’s far-far right

By Uri Avnery Every time you think we have reached the limit, something else pops up and the limit moves. One might have thought that the Hitler-mufti story was the absolute limit of craziness. But here comes Uri Ariel (pictured above), and proves one wrong. Ariel’s cats top Netanyahu’s mufti. Ariel is a cabinet minister. […]

Group of Teenage North Africans Sentenced for Gang Rape in Central Stockholm, Sweden

From: thelocal.se A group of teenagers from north Africa who were living in Stockholm have been found guilty of gang raping a 23-year-old woman on the island of Södermalm. The attack took place two months ago at the end of the summer. Stockholm District Court heard that the woman had been […]

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