Leadership & Governance

Secular members of Egypt's Shura Council (upper house of parliament) said they were resigning from the council in support of 22 million Egyptians who want to topple US-funded President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The plan to assist Edward Snowden, the U.S. intelligence agent-turned-whistleblower accused of espionage by Washington, into a safe haven in Latin America is unravelling the warning we have made about the Zionist shill - Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks: President Rafael Correa, who previously has hailed Snowden for exposing US spying, and has earned kudos for defying Washington pressure over the affair, reduced Snowden's chances of making it to Quito. He halted an effort to help Snowden leave Russia amid concern Assange was usurping the role of the Ecuadoran government, according to leaked diplomatic correspondence published on Friday. Amid signs Quito was cooling down on the Snowden's case and irritated with Assange's lack of respect for protocol, Correa declared invalid and unauthorised a temporary travel document which could have helped extract Snowden from his reported location in Moscow.

As the gerontocratic rulers of the House of Saud plot to appoint successors, the inside fight to lead the kingdom is heating up.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Thursday handed the Arab League (AL) a memo, urging the warring sides in Syria to respect Lebanon's sovereignty.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has boycotted proposed negotiations with the Taliban, saying a day after US announced it would hold talks with the militants, that the peace process had to be Afghan-led.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has withdrawn his offer to quit a day after he presented it to President Mahmoud Abbas.

The State of Palestine signed on Wednesday a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to launch the "FAIR" project to facilitate access to infrastructure services in the so-called "C" areas and East Jerusalem, in which development of infrastructure represent a top national priority and paves the way for achieving sustainable development.

Israeli regime’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, a far-rightwing Zionist, on Monday says that the idea of establishing an independent Palestinian state has reached a dead end and that the Two-State Solution is not possible.

PRISM provides the U.S. government with names, addresses, conversation histories and entire archives of email inboxes of people around the world for many years through Microsoft's Hotmail. For years, engineers compiled the data, sometimes by hand, and delivered it to the government via FBI agents. Today, the NSA program copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis, and ends up in the president's daily briefing. Many of the people interviewed for this report insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss a classified, continuing effort. But with these anonymous sources disclose to us there are two vital components to Prism's success: First, which attracts the most attention so far, is how the U.S. government works closely with the companies that keep people perpetually connected to each other and the world. The second and far murkier one is how PRISM fits into a larger U.S. wiretapping program in place for years.

With potential perjury, a crime, by U.S. top officials, and new questions about spying, let's stop assuming everything is legal. No doubt, all the U.S. statutory and constitutional questions surrounding the NSA’s surveillance operations are why when publicly claiming that the program is perfectly legal, Obama officials also, refuse to make public their jurisprudential justifications for such a claim. The U.S. administration clearly fear that when subjected to scrutiny, the PRISM program will be shown to be, as Sen. Merkley put it, “Out of sync with the plain language of the law” and illegal as American journalist explains.

Israeli deputy Defense Minister, Member of Knesset (MK) Danny Danon, said that there will never be a Palestinian State, and that the Palestinians are "settlers", should be part of Jordan.

Contrary to neoliberal economist propaganda, whose dysfunctional "globalisation" brainwash caused more deepening poverty and rising inequality, the improvement on the global poverty as of 2005 is due to many governments around the world that radically changing course by throwing off the shackles of neoliberalism in the first decade of the 21st century. Government intervention, economic nationalism, redistributive populist policies that promoted both equity and expanded internal markets, and the commodities boom triggered by China’s development made up a potent combination that reversed trends in poverty. However, the Philippines bucked the trend towards reduced poverty because its policymakers are imprisoned in the neoliberal paradigm according to a Filipino author and incumbent Member of the Philippine House of Representatives.