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Rights Groups Urge Abbas to Let ICC Prosecute War Crimes Committed on Palestinian Territories

Amnesty, Human Rights Watch call on PA to resist U.S. and Israeli pressure and apply for International Criminal Court membership.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to promptly seek access for Palestine at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

``Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently``

The author has also been given eye-witness accounts of events surrounding late April-early May, 2014 from persons who escaped from Raqqa, some of whom now reside in Palestinian refugee camps and elsewhere in Lebanon.

(DAMASCUS) - The following is a transcript of an interview conducted by the author at the National Museum of Syria with an employee of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM).

Mohammad Shah: He Defeated the Soviets but Could Not Help the Suffering in Home Country Burma

Mohammad Shah fought heroically, along with the great leaders like Gulbadin Hekmatyr, Rubbani, and Ahmed Shah Massoud, until all Russians were cleared from Afghan soil.

(RANGOON) - Mohammad Shah was a man of high morals, simple, brave and honest; a truth teller. He was born in 1944 in Dan Khali (Rwa Thikay) in southern Mgdaw.

His father, the late Mohammad Yusoof, was a school teacher educated from Akyab St Pol British High school and his grandfather was a rich land owner.

Why Hasn`t The U.S. Gone After Gazprom?

Gazprom has already warned that further Western sanctions could disrupt gas exports to Europe.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - Amidst the deepening war of words over Moscow's annexation of Crimea, U.S. President Barack Obama on April 28 added more Russian individuals and companies to a sanctions list that already included influential members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and Bank Rossiya, which has close ties to the Russian leadership.

The new list freezes the assets of Igor Sechin, head of Russia's major oil company, Rosneft, six other individuals and 17 companies.

With the Donbass Revolt, But Not With Putin

With a democratic and social alliance against the Kiev regime and NATO

(Kiev) - The resistance of the eastern population against the reactionary pro-western government in Kiev has to be supported both from a democratic as well as an anti-imperialist point of view.

Engineering Chaos: Mother Agnes-Miriam Lectures Neo-Cons on their Bad Behavior

Syria Solidarity Movement offers this excellent report about a recent visit from Mother Agnes-Mariam.

(MORAGA, Ca.) - I just went to hear Mother Agnes-Miriam, a Syrian nun dressed in a serious nun outfit, give a talk on the horrible situation that her country finds itself in today.

I ended up with ten pages of notes on the shocking details of what she said. Her talk can be summed up in just a few words. "[Western neo-colonial] powers have been engineering chaos in Syria..."

West Pushes World to Brink of WWIII: Analyst

A political analyst has warned against the ramifications of the Western countries’ indiscreet policies that can push the world to the brink of a third world war.

(TEHRAN / SALEM) - In a Friday interview with Press TV, Tim King lashed out at NATO for acting as the US proxy across the world.

“These Western countries, their lack of discretion with military targets, it’s just horrifying,” the commentator said, adding, “It just seems like we are marching toward this inevitable third world war that could so easily be avoided by just letting nations handle their own affairs.”

Putin is Losing Eastern European Energy Gamble

Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said the economic situation in the country in part depends on how the Ukrainian crisis plays out.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't think the European community can do without the natural gas it gets from energy monopoly Gazprom. With a Russian economy starting to decline, however, it may be Gazprom that's too strongly interconnected to the European market to break free.

The narrative over European energy security reaches at least back to 2006 when Gazprom first cut gas supplies through Ukraine.

Do You Really Want to Go to War With Russia? The Crazies Do!

Why do we support protests in one place and use brutal force in our own country to end protests??

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - At times like this it appears we have crazy people making life and death decisions for the good citizens of the US. It is disconcerting to say the least to come to grips with the reality that there are many in this government who are war mongers and who appear to be provoking Russia.

This is suicidal. This is not Libya, or Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Syria, or Grenada, or any of the smaller powers we have chosen to make war on.

Russia`s Actions In Ukraine Threaten Dangerous Instability And Indicate U.S. Retreating from its Leadership Role

Often, we learn the wrong lessons from history

(WASHINGTON DC) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is seriously challenging the post-Cold War international order. Will one nation be permitted to use force to annex the territory of another country---or will it be prevented from doing so?

Thus far, the world's response----and that of our own country, the self-proclaimed leader of the free world----is ambiguous. At this point, aggression appears to have succeeded, with no response other than a rhetorical one.