Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 655
War Tourism Skips Reality
- Inter Press Service
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Nov 24 (IPS) - The tour guide's voice echoes around the dark, musty room, three stories underground. Fifty visitors – among them mothers holding infants, youths snapping pictures on mobile phones and grandparents leaning against the walls – are crammed into the narrow stairwell that leads down into the chamber, listening attentively to his every word.
Briefly President, Now Pharaoh
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 24 (IPS) - When Mohamed Mursi was sworn in as president in June there were concerns that the first democratically elected president in Egyptian history would be subservient to the military council that had ruled the country since dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled in early 2011.
Security Council Vow on Women Lives Mostly on Paper
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 (IPS) - When the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) adopted a landmark resolution numbered 1325 back in 2000, it was supposed to integrate gender into its core mandate: the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security.
Gaza Assault Shows a New Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 23 (IPS) - The reaction of post-revolution Egypt to Israel's weeklong onslaught on the next-door Gaza Strip – brought to a halt temporarily at least by a Wednesday night ceasefire – has contrasted sharply with the former regime's callous approach to the besieged coastal enclave.
Bombed, Wounded, and Celebrating
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Nov 23 (IPS) - The ceasefire has brought extremities in Gaza. In the morning the coastal territory woke up bashed and bloody from one of Israel's most intensive nights of bombardment since a week's tit for tat violence broke out between Hamas and Israel. By late morning the coastal strip was ghostly quiet, gripped with fear as people stayed indoors awaiting the inevitable retaliation from Israel for a bus bombing carried out in Tel Aviv by Palestinian extremists. But as night fell thousands of Gazans took to the streets in joyful celebration in what they see as victory over Israel.
Israel Targets Media in Gaza
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Nov 22 (IPS) - As people anxiously wait to see if the newly-signed ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas will hold, local and international human rights groups are calling for investigations into Israeli human rights abuses committed during its eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, including flagrant attacks on journalists.
In Gaza, Another Eight Days of Killing
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Nov 22 (IPS) - Fouad Hijazi was watching the 7 pm news with his wife and eight children when a missile fired by an Israeli F-16 hit their house in Jabalyia refugee camp, Gaza's most densely populated area.
Despite “Pivot”, Obama Drawn Back into the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (IPS) - President Barack Obama may have lost interest in the Middle East, to paraphrase Soviet leader Leon Trotsky's famous epigram about war, but the Middle East is interested in him.
Now Netanyahu Needs an ‘Iron Dome’
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Nov 21 (IPS) - Ending Israel's first military operation since the Arab Spring changed the Middle East depended on both the diplomatic blitz exerted on Israel and Hamas and the extent of the military blows exchanged between them. As for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the ceasefire must live at least until his re-election.
Canada Downsizes Military Bootprint, in War and Peace
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Nov 21 (IPS) - Canada's military buying binge under the current Conservative government has hit a financial brick wall in these austere times, but there is no nostalgic return in sight for Ottawa's once robust participation in United Nations-led peacekeeping missions.
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