Thousands of rioters left a trail of destruction in southeastern Bangladesh as they torched Buddhist temples and homes near the town of Ramu. The violence was sparked by a photo posted on Facebook that allegedly insulted Islam. A 25,000-strong mob set fire to at least five temples and dozens of homes throughout the town and [...]
More than 30 people have been killed after South African police opened fire with automatic weapons on striking platinum miners in the country’s North West province on Thursday. Police spokesman Zweli Mnisi gave the figure today after yesterday’s shooting in Marikana, just north-west of Johannesburg. The mass killing came on the sixth day of a [...]
When Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Europe’s largest antivirus company, discovered the Flame virus that is afflicting computers in Iran and the Middle East, he recognized it as a technologically sophisticated virus that only a government could create. He also recognized that the virus, which he compares to the Stuxnet virus built by programmers employed [...]
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s secretary Lalith Weeratunga alleged India had a big hand in the mid-eighties in the planning and executing terrorist strikes in Sri Lanka while India, Britain and France made intense pressure on the President to stop the war when Sri Lanka was on the verge of defeating the Tamil Tigers. Lalith [...]
Undercover NATO troops are already in Syria despite denials from their parent governments, according to a leaked brief from a highly-placed analyst. The information comes from a hacked email from leading private US intelligence agency Stratfor, whose correspondence has been released by Wikileaks since February 27. The email appears to be written from the [...]
Lies, deceit, blackmail, bullying, murder, torture, concentration camps, destruction of property, looting, massacres… all these words pale into insignificance when we look at what NATO has done in Libya – and intends to do to Syria within a few days. The sickening evidence coming out of Libya underlines what we are dealing with. It is [...]
The US is seeking to control the Internet, which is an instrumental of its foreign policy. Writer and political scientist Igor Panarin believes Syria and Russia have been picked as a testing ground for America’s media intervention doctrine. In the article below, professor Igor Panarin explains his view. The mass unrest that destabilized a number [...]
The crude oil price may reach US $ 150 a barrel in the aftermath of new sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) on Iranian oil imports, said National Iranian Oi Co managing director Ahmad Qalebani. He said Sunday the miscalculated and hardline EU stance on Iran will compel other countries to lose their confidence [...]
Right now, there are two pieces of legislation in Congress that would change the Internet forever if they are enacted. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) would give the federal government the ability to potentially shut down millions of websites. SOPA (the version being considered in the U.S. [...]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, two of the world’s most recognizable women leaders, pledged on Friday to work together to bring democracy to Suu Kyi’s long isolated and repressive nation. Wrapping up a historic three-day visit to Myanmar, Clinton held hands with Suu Kyi on [...]
