Jack Leonard, for the Los Angeles Times, has written about the upcoming "political showdown" in California over gay marriage. Yesterday, the California secretary of state said that the gay marriage initiate would be on the November 4 ballot. Voters will have to decide whether there should be a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as […]
A razor blade, circumstance, and forced isolation are the only tools the US military tribunal need to charge 29-year old British national Binyam Mohamed with an alleged al-Qaida dirty bomb plot. Whether or not Mr. Mohamed is actually guilty can not excuse the US from engaging in medieval practices dating back to the 13th century. […]
Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported today on some of the comments made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) summit in Rome. The president allegedly proclaimed that Iran, in light of the current crisis, has clear solutions for the fair production and distribution of food supplies to the […]
In the face of adversity makes many crumble and it makes others stronger. It was strength and determination in the face of adversity that took one young Peruvian boy from a childhood working on the streets to become the leader of the nation that once look at him with hopeless eyes. In 2001, Alejandro Toledo […]
Senator John McCain's major speech on May 15th , in which he outlined what he "would hope to have achieved at the end of my first term as President" in 2013, made international headlines. Most of the international news reports focused on McCain's vision of Iraq in 2013. For example, two weeks ago the Guardian […]
Senate on Climate Change , In the US, the Senate began debate yesterday on legislation to address climate change. The "SF Chronicle" reports here that the opponents and proponents were so eager to start bare knuckling over the bill that they voted 74-14 to proceed to debate. The bill "would require about 2,100 major U.S. […]
In the historic first case transferred to Croatian courts by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), General Mirko Norac was convicted and General Rahim Ademi acquitted of war crimes on theories of command responsibility. The historic conviction is a major step forward for Croatia, whose government long resisted responsibility for war crimes […]
The Associated Press reports that International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo issued a new report today to the UN Security Council describing evidence that high officials in the Sudanese government are directly linked to the ongoing genocide in Darfur. The report said a pre-trial hearing would be held next month. Evidence of Sudanese government […]
A report in The New York Times today describes water shortages in Spain as a "national crisis.' Scientists say that Southern Europe and especially parts of southeast Spain are drying rapidly to near-desert conditions, a process that some experts call "Africanization' and which is accelerated by tourist resort development and water-thirsty crops. The dramatic article […]
Chad has agreed to release all former child combatants held in detention, while armed rebel groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have also committed to freeing any children in their ranks, a top United Nations envoy announced June 2 after a six day trip to the two countries. In Chad the Government has agreed […]
The term “Article 98 agreement” refers to the provision of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court that prohibits the Court from prosecuting someone located within an ICC member state if doing so would cause the member state to violate the terms of other bilateral or multilateral treaties to which it may be a […]
The US State Department has reinstated the scholarships of seven Gaza Strip students. Last Thursday the students were denied exit visas. Israel's tight security makes it nearly impossible for any Gaza Strip resident to leave the territory. However, there are “humanitarian” exceptions. Israeli officials are now blaming the US for not requesting special exemptions for Fulbright scholars.
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