Information about the uprising underway in the oil-rich Libya is still sketchy (partly due to government control), but signs are proliferating that the Gaddafi regime’s response is turning out to be the most reckless and brutal in comparison to Tunisia and Egypt’s uprisings. On the website of their newspaper, Azzahf Al-Akhdar (Green March), the Revolutionary […]
While the world revels in a plethora of technological marvels and is potentially at the dawn of another paradigm shift with social media and touch screen technologies, Some Haitians still believe cholera epidemics has a direct relationship with the malfeasance of voodoo priests. Scores of medical personnel, scholars and researchers working in Haiti were caught […]
Speculation in Baku was rife last week over the temporary closing on Monday of the Israeli embassy. Many news sources such as the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat theorized that the reason for the closing of the embassy was security-related. In any case, the embassy was apparently closed for “technical reasons” and re-opened. The Israeli Foreign […]
As Congress hammers out budget cuts, Robert Gates, warned a Senate committee the mission in Iraq (and the “gains” we have made) will be critically threatened if State doesn’t get the money it has requested to fund its mission.
The ICC Cricket World Cup is now underway on the Indian sub-continent. Cricket’s quadrennial showcase will almost certainly reveal the standard haves-versus-have nots division in world cricket, which, while arguably the world’s second most popular sport, does not go especially deep in terms of world-class teams. There are likely nine sides that see themselves as […]
On Sunday, February 20, 2011 Iranians will take to the streets to hold anti-government demonstrations to commemorate the death of two protesters killed during an earlier demonstration on Monday, February 14th. Emboldened by the success of revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, and the unfolding of events in neighboring Persian Gulf states, the Iranian opposition sees an […]
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Last April, an Egyptian court sentenced 22 alleged members of a Hizballah cell to prison for spying and planning attacks on tourist sites. The leader of the cell was Sami Shehab, a.k.a. Mohammed Yousef Mansoor. Hizballah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah publically confirmed that Mr. Shehab was a Hizballah operative, but he denied the men […]
The following piece was written by Norman L. Epstein, a Toronto-based Emergency physician and human rights activist While oxygen sustains life, freedom enhances its quality. The Arab awakening breathes fresh hope that such freedom may emerge from the suffocating and brutal dictatorships in the Middle East. Nobody knows for certain what kind of political system […]
We’ve been continuing to struggle with shenanigans here at the FPA Blogs but hopefully all has been set right. Recently Britain’s National Archives has put on its web page “Africa Through a Lens,” “a set of thousands of images taken from a broader photographic collection of Foreign and Commonwealth Office images.” The collection provides a […]
Large-scale anti-government demonstrations are planned for Sunday, February 20 to remember the deaths of two protesters considered by Iranians to be martyrs of Iran’s Green Movement. The two were killed during an earlier demonstration on Monday in clashes with the Basiji militias. The Iranian government cracked down ruthlessly on the Monday demonstrations. Large turnout is expected […]
Although the U.S. is an Arctic nation, it’s about to spend the next two years without a heavy icebreaker. The Coast Guard recently confirmed that the Polar Sea will be decommissioned this year, with her crew being transferred to the Polar Star. The latter boat will be undergoing repairs until 2013, leaving the U.S. without […]
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