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Here’s How to Avoid World War Three
Although wars between even small nations are tragic for the populations involved and can cause wider problems in the international system, the prospect of armed conflict between major powers is the true nightmare scenario—especially in an era of nuclear weapons. The two world wars that so horribly scarred the twentieth century provide important...
Americans Scour Tehran for Cheap Assets as Iranians Open Doors
Sporting a monogrammed tie in tie-less Tehran, he could not have been mistaken for a local. As an American who remembers well the U.S. hostage crisis, he might have been forgiven some skepticism about investing in Iran. But he has been struck, he said, by the “enormous, consistent love and admiration” toward the U.S. he has felt from Iranians and...
Peter Carl Fabergé – encyclopedia article about Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé(Russian: Карл Густавович Фаберже) Peter Carl Fabergé Born (1846-05-30)30 May 1846 Died 24 September 1920(1920-09-24) (aged 74) Nationality Russian Ethnicity Danish / French Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as “Karl Gustavovich Fabergé” (Russian: Карл Густавович Фаберже Karl Gustavovič Faberže, May 30 [O.S. May 18]...
Former French president backs Putin and blames CIA on Ukrainian dossier
Source: Pravda.Ru photo archive By Nicolas Bonnal Usually western politicians reveal the hidden truth when they leave power or when they have written their memories… The pressing agenda against their action or person is lesser, their life is less at risk, and they can finally think to their soul and talk reasonably. Remember Eisenhower...
Exclusive: Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine
KHUTOR CHKALOVA, Russia Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week. Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen had taken...
U.S. indicts world soccer officials in alleged $150 million FIFA bribery scandal
A combination of file pictures made on May 27 shows FIFA officials. From left to right from upper row: Rafael Esquivel, Nicolas Leoz, Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and Jose Maria Marin. The seven men are among several soccer officials arrested. (AFP/Getty Images) The Justice Department unsealed a 47 count indictment...
Britain resigns as a world power
LONDON On Monday, the Right Honorable David Cameron, prime minister of Great Britain, gave his first major speech after being reelected to his high office — once held by Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Confronting a world of challenges — including Greece’s possible exit from the euro, a massive migration...
Russian State Media Says U.S. Is Fomenting Riots in Macedonia
The people of Macedonia have taken to the streets in recent days, calling for the resignation of the country’s Prime Minister, creating yet another flashpoint in Eastern Europe. The protestors say they are outraged by evidence produced by opponents of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski purporting to show the government was involved in election...
Iranian state media chiefs try to escape EU sanctions by denying role in human rights abuses
Justice for Iran (JFI) – 11 May 2015: Lawyers representing two of the most senior figures in Iran´s official media have argued that their clients bear no responsibility for the broadcast of forced confessions on state television. Mohammad Sarafraz, the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), and Hamid Reza Emadi, the head of news...
People’s tribunals, and the roots of civil society justice
The London session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Flickr/Tribunal Russell. Some rights reserved. After the second world war a legal and moral threshold was crossed. Leaders of Germany and Japan were held individually responsible for their contributions to state crimes committed by their governments in the course of the war. These trials in...
