by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
(source: abdelbariatwan.com) Saif al-Islam Gadaffi has been captured by forces loyal to the new government of Libya on his way through the Sahara desert to Niger where his family had bought themselves many friends with their country’s oil money. Other friends from the...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
By Leslie Bravery (source: sapienspromise.org) During Monday’s exploratory nuclear-free Middle East conference in Vienna, the deputy head of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, David Danieli, drew attention to Israel’s own failures to comply with...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Without universality, rules of the game and understanding of liberal democracy, Israel is becoming a bullying and violent place. By Ari Shavit (source: Haaretz) It’s depressing. About two years ago MK Marina Solodkin (Kadima ) proposed banning any national...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Precedent has shown that when the public loses its faith in the press and the legal system, democracy is at risk. By Israel Harel (source: Haaretz) The proposed amendment to Israel’s libel law wouldn’t be very effective. But dubbing it the “silencing...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
(source: Press TV) A prominent political analyst says that members of the anti-government “Free Syria Army” are not defected army personnel but militants backed, funded and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey. In an article published on Global...