Bouthaina Shaaban is political and media adviser at the Syrian Presidency, and former expatriates minister. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She has a Doctorate in English Literature from Warwick University, London. She was the spokesperson for Syria. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Despite…
Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010 09:15 ET The motive behind whistle-blower prosecutions By Glenn Greenwald One of the more flamboyant aspects of the Bradley Manning arrest was the claim that he had leaked to WikiLeaks 250,000 pages of “diplomatic cables.” Those were the documents which anonymous government officials pointed to when telling The Daily Beast‘s Philip Shenon that…
Charles in charge Tuesday July 6, 2010 | 12:07 by Ossian Ward in London | permalink Here in London a stunned silence greeted the surprise news that Charles Saatchi was to ‘donate’ his recently opened Saatchi Gallery and part of his collection to the British nation, perhaps as soon as 2012. The surprise came, not…
Luxury apartments in the hills above Place St Pierre overlook squalid tent camps. Below, a former sweatshop worker, Darline Charles, does her laundry. She says her family cannot afford to move to a new home costing $740 for half a year. PORT-AU-PRINCE // In the colonial-style French restaurant on Place Boyer in Pétionville, the duck…
A surprise announcement, a judiciary official in provincial Iran said a woman who had been convicted and sentenced to stoning for adultery had also been convicted of murder. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two in the Tabriz area, had been convicted of cheating on her late husband, apparently a murder victim, and sentenced…
Little hope for US Gulf Coast as example of Guanabara Bay reveals a still devastated area a decade after environmental catastrophe. Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On I wanted to see the effects of an oil spill years later, so I came to Guanabara Bay near Rio de Janeiro. It…
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FOCUS: OPINION ‘Wall Street leads in phony reform’ By Danny Schechter Obama claims his financial reforms will bring an end to taxpayer bailouts [EPA] Charade noun an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance: talk of unity was nothing more than a charade. The plan was to get the financial reform bill…