by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Students and activists protested and disrupted a lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE) by Daniel Ayalon, the controversial Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel. By James Caspell (source: Electronic Intifada) Over 50 students and activists greeted Ayalon...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
By Justin Rowlatt (source: BBC News) For decades the West has lectured the East on how to manage its economies. Not any more. Now the emerging economies of Asia look like models of steady, consistent policy and sustained growth while Europe, America and Japan are...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Rumsfeld prosecution could set precedent By CESAR CHELALA NEW YORK — There is now enough evidence to try former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes, Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, recently told “Frontal 21,” a...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Bibi ‘to move against Palestine unity’ The Israeli prime minister-designate is mulling over lobbying the US against Hamas participation in a Palestinian unity government. “We shall try to convince our American friends that this is not something...