11/04/2015
By John Wight*
10 April 2015 (RT) — The Summit of the Americas, being held this year in Panama, is a reminder that contrary to what many in the US like to think, the United States constitutes just one of many nations on the American continent.
**Raúl Castro | Author: Government.ru | Wikimedia Commons
International media attention will understandably be focused on the prospects of a meeting between President Obama and Cuban leader, Raul Castro, during the summit.
Hopefully, if and when such a meeting takes place, agreement is reached over the lifting of a decades-long US embargo of the island, which despite being in place since the early 1960s has categorically failed to break the will of the Cuban people in their resistance to the writ of Washington.
Indeed every day the Cuban Revolution survives, it does so as a beacon of strength and defiance of US imperialism.
The Obama administration deserves credit for being the first to finally submit to the absurdity of the failed US attempt to isolate Cuba with the re-establishment of diplomatic relations.
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11/04/2015
By Uri Avnery*
11 April 2015
Uri Avnery
MY FIRST reaction after the election was: “Oh, no! Not a National Unity Government, please!
In my first article after the election, I devoted a large part to the danger of a “national unity” government, though at the time the possibility of such a government, based on Likud and the Labor Party, seemed very remote indeed.
But, looking at the figures, I had a gnawing suspicion: this looks like something that will end with a Likud-Labor combination.
Now, suddenly, this possibility has raised its head. Everybody is talking about it.
All my emotions rebel against this possibility. But I owe it to myself and my readers to examine this option dispassionately. Though pure logic is a rare commodity in politics, let’s try to exercise it.
IS A “national unity government” good or bad for Israel?
Let’s look at the numbers first.
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11/04/2015
Geneva (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Friday 10 April 2015 it is preparing to receive as many as 130,000 refugees who could flee by boat to Africa to escape the conflict in Yemen, even as it works to help hundreds of thousands of other refugees and Yemenis under threat inside the country.
© UNHCR/F.Van Damme | The Djibouti coastguard escorts boats carrying refugees from Yemen into the port of Obock.
“With 14 out of Yemen’s 22 govern orates affected by air strikes or armed conflict, UNHCR yesterday [9 April 2015] issued a position paper to governments calling on all countries to allow civilians fleeing Yemen access to their territories,” said Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Edwards told a news briefing that the historical flow of refugees from the Horn of Africa to Yemen – which has contributed almost all of the 250,000 refugees registered in Yemen – was now reversing. In the past 10 days, some 900 people have crossed the Gulf Aden to Djibouti, Somalia’s Puntland and Somaliland.
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11/04/2015
New Your, 10 April 2015 – In New York on Wednesday [8 April] night, the director and stars of Desert Dancer, a film about the life and experiences of Afshin Ghaffarian, joined United Nations representatives and the public for a special screening ahead of the film’s opening today at the AMC Lowe’s Lincoln Square theater and the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York.*
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Frieda Pinto and Reece Ritchie star in Relativity Media’s “Desert Dancer” – (Copyright Desert Dancer Productions Ltd. 2014) | Source: UN News Centre
Unable to perform publicly as a dancer in his native country and concerned about the potential repercussions of his political allegiances, Mr. Ghaffarian sought asylum in France in 2009, and there began the process of his remarkable story now travelling to movie screens around the world.
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11/04/2015
The Djibouti coastguard escorts boats carrying refugees from Yemen into the port of Obock. Photo: UNHCR/F. Van Damme
“That was already the case before, and this current conflict has aggravated the situation and has made the population increasingly vulnerable,” he added.
The ground attacks and airstrikes which has now spread to most of the country is quickly unravelling “anything there was left” of basic services including health care, safe water and availability of food.
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11/04/2015
By K Rajan*
11 April 2015, World News Report – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is having a tough time shrugging off her role in the Petrobras controversy. She was on the board of directors of Petrobras between 2003–2010–the period when the alleged kickback and money laundering took place.
Petrobras — the fourth-largest company in the world | Source: World News Report
Millions of people in Brazil are demanding her impeachment more so at a time when she has one of the highest disapproval ratings in the past 20 years of any president. Already 34 sitting politicians and 18 companies are being investigated in the mother of all scandals.
Already 34 sitting politicians and 18 companies are being investigated in the mother of all scandalsWhat appeared to be a minor act of impropriety and oversight by oil giant Petrobras — the fourth-largest company in the world in terms of market capitalization and a host of top Brazilian politicians and business houses is unfolding into the biggest-ever deceit, bribery, kickback and corruption scandal in the world.
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It is today like a volcano about to erupt.
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