Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 662
Clock Running Out on Afghan Political Solution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - After more than a decade of international military intervention in Afghanistan, U.S. policymakers have come to accept that a political solution is the way forward in Afghanistan, analysts here are suggesting.
Anti-Iran Hawks Maintain P.R. Offensive
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly last month that Iran’s nuclear programme was unlikely to breach his “red line” for presumed military action until next spring or summer, many observers here looked forward to some relief from the nearly incessant drumbeat for war by U.S. neo-conservatives and other hawks.
Untreated Mental Illness the Invisible Fallout of War and Poverty
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 (IPS) - About 50 percent of Afghanis over 15 years of age suffer from mental health problems - depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder. In northern Uganda, nearly every family suffered during the vicious 20-year rebellion during which thousands of children were kidnapped and turned into child soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army.
How the U.S. Quietly Lost the IED War in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 09 (IPS) - Although the surge of “insider attacks” on U.S.-NATO forces has dominated coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2012, an even more important story has been quietly unfolding: the U.S. loss of the pivotal war of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the Taliban.
U.S.: Romney Assails Obama’s “Passivity” in Foreign Policy, Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 08 (IPS) - In what was billed as a major foreign policy address, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday assailed Barack Obama for “passivity” in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that it was “time to change course” in the Middle East, in particular.
World Forgetting Palestinian Rights
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Oct 07 (IPS) - The annual debate has just wrapped up and, already, the certainty is that if last year Palestinian statehood auspiciously dominated the international agenda, this time, the issue vanished from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and will vanish even further from world affairs.
OP-ED: Polio Eradication - A Reflection on the Darfur Campaign
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 06 (IPS) - It was early July 2004, and Darfur was looking like a war zone - massive human displacements of an estimated one million people, ongoing skirmishes, inclement weather, a parched landscape due to the recurring droughts, and sheer misery everywhere.
Shadow Fighting Erupts over Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 06 (IPS) - Civilians in the town of Bani Walid, 170 km south-east of Tripoli, are facing a humanitarian crisis as Libyan security forces lay siege to the stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi supporters, cutting off water, food and medical supplies.
As Conflict Spreads, Syrian Opposition Preps for the Future
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 05 (IPS) - As the uprising in Syria becomes violently entangled with its neighbours, the expatriate opposition leadership is already formulating plans for a political transition following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"How Much to Lift the Sanctions?" Iranians React to MEK De-Listing
- Inter Press Service
TEHRAN, Oct 04 (IPS) - Last week’s decision by the U.S. State Department to remove the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from its terrorism list has, as anticipated, led to charges by the Iranian government that the administration of President Barack Obama is hypocritical and using double standards.
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