Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Marian Houk
An unusually-sensitive U.S. State Department official has noticed North Korean sadness.
Yes.
The North Koreans were sad at having to blow up a cooling tower to show that it was sincere about “disabling” its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
That’s what you get for testing nuclear weapons after withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The Associated Press reported today [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Disarmament, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, USA
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
UN Secretary BAN Ki-Moon said, in a statement issued by his spokesman, that he was “deeply concerned at the recent announcement by the Israeli government to invite new tenders for construction in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem … The Government of Israel’s continued construction in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is contrary to international [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Israeli human rights organization Gisha reported late on Sunday that “The U.S. Consulate tonight told Fulbright candidates from Gaza that it is restoring funding for the prestigious scholarship program and is ‘working closely’ with the government of Israel to secure permits for the students to leave Gaza in order to attend visa interviews at [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions, USA
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here are some excerpts from an apparently rare interview with Gore Vidal in last Sunday’s (25 May) issue of The Independent. The interview was done by Robert Chalmers:
“You would consider yourself to be living under a dishonourable regime?” “Absolutely.”
“With a corrupt president?” “Yes.”
“Who cheated his way to power?” “Oh, yes.”
“Is this the [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Journalism and Journalists, USA
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It appears that just as the revelation that Holocaust bank accounts had been retained for decades by Swiss banks without much effort to identify survivors or heirs was used to wrench modifications in the secrecy provisions that were the Swiss banking system’s greatest pride and asset, the disaster caused by the recent cyclone in Myanmar [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Journalism and Journalists, Myanmar, NGOs, USA, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
A Sudanese journalist working for Al-Jazeera Television was released from Guantanamo prison camp yesterday after six years of detention and sixteen months on a hunger strike. He was never charged with any crime.
Upon his arrival in Sudan, he was carried off the plane on a stretcher, and taken straight to the hospital.
AP quoted him [...]
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Filed under: Guantanamo, Journalism and Journalists, Sudan, USA
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
In Bucharest today, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley indicated they were very pleased by the support they feel the U.S. has gotten from the NATO alliance for its missile defense proposals in Europe.
Rice told journalists: “…we have a breakthrough document on missile defense for the Alliance. Again, [...]
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Filed under: Conference on Disarmament, Disarmament, Russia, Space Race, USA
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Marian Houk
With all these intensive talks in recent days, there is still no indication of any deal near on the important issue of reopening the Gaza-Egyptian border at Rafah.
No question has been asked in any of the press conferences given over the past few days by any of the principals involved.
There are only two hints that [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, USA, Uncategorized
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here is a news item that leaves me almost at a loss for words — The Associated Press reported today that “A US government team is evaluating Nicaragua’s proposal to destroy hundreds of Soviet-made missiles in exchange for hospital equipment, authorities said on Tuesday. President Daniel Ortega met the leader of the US delegation, [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It is the first execution of Iraq’s former leaders that has been approved by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and two Iraqi vice presidents, apparently fulfilling all the legal requirements in the present Iraqi penal code in a way that the executions of (1) Saddam Hussein and (2) his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (whose head was [...]
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