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Obama saysUSwill help plan anti racism conference

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. Obama says US will help plan anti-racism Conference despite Israeli pressure

by Saed Bannoura –
 
IMEMC News      Sunday February 15, 2009 14:35
 
Although US President Barack Obama received pressure from U.S. Zionists to boycott a United Nations Conference against racism, his spokesman said late Saturday that the US would help plan the conference.
 
Israeli officials have opposed the anti-racism conference when it was held in the past, because Israeli policies that discriminate based on race were addressed in the conference. The 2001 World Conference Against Racism was held in Durban, South Africa, and was boycotted by both Israel and the US because Israeli policies were discussed at the conference.

the US history of racism. His administration is moving forward with plans to assist the United Nations in planning the next World Conference Against Racism, which is likely to be held in South Africa again.

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International jurists bewail damage to law byUSwar on terrorism

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International jurists bewail damage to law by U.S. war on terrorism

By Nick Cumming-Bruce

GENEVA: The U.S.56has done "immense damage" to international law, lacks a credible legal basis and should be repudiated by the administration of President Barack Obama, a panel of eminent judges and lawyers said Monday.

The panel, organized by the International Commission of Jurists, a nongovernmental human rights group, also criticized the culture of secrecy associated with the violation of international laws, which it said afforded impunity to those acting unlawfully.

The report also said abuses were becoming pervasive in democratic as well as repressive states.

The panel based its assessment on a three-year study of terrorism and counterterrorism practices on behalf of the commission that took evidence from hundreds of witnesses in 40 countries. The chairman, Arthur Chaskalson, a former chief justice of South Africa, described the report as "the most extensive study of these issues yet conducted."

 

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Battling Christian terrorists

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Battling Christian Terrorists
 
By Ivan Eland 

Africa was always the continent (one of the few) that even the usually interventionist U.S. national security analysts deemed as non-strategic to U.S. interests.  Not anymore.
 
The Pentagon’s new Africa Command bureaucracy, which was created largely to defend oil produced on the West African coast (itself a dubious objective), has already branched out to fight "the war on terror" elsewhere in Africa – with disastrous results. 
 
Typically, around the world, the United States needlessly makes enemies by training indigenous militaries to fight terrorist groups that didn’t focus their attacks on U.S. targets.  As a superpower, the U.S. hates "instability," no matter how far from U.S. territory or interests it develops. Thus, the U.S. military has been training the Ugandan military in counterterrorism.  
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International criminal court faces big test with Isarael

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8. International Criminal Court Faces Big Test With Israel
 
by Amitabh Pal

Amitabh Pal is managing editor of The Progressive  
 
It should look into the allegations, not the least to refute the assertion that the court is an instrument of the West.
 
The International Criminal Court soon faces a big test-a test that could reveal whether it is truly an independent institution.
 

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