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Menendez and Royce Lead Capitol Hill Armenian Genocide Commemoration
WASHINGTON, DC—The leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee—the two Congressional panels that conduct oversight of U.S. foreign policy—joined with more than two dozen of their legislative colleagues on April 9 at a Capitol Hill remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). The […]
Readout of the President’s Call with Presidents Putin of Russia and Hollande of France
Readout of the President’s Call with President Putin At Moscow’s request, President Obama spoke with Russian President Putin today about the situation in Ukraine. The President expressed grave concern about Russian government support for the actions of armed, pro-Russian separatists who threaten to undermine and destabilize the government of Ukraine. The President emphasized that all […]
CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou, in Latest ‘Letter from Loretto,’ Describes Work in Prison Chapel
Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou, who is currently in the middle of serving a thirty-month prison sentence at the federal correctional institution of Loretto, Pennsylvania, has written another “Letter from Loretto.” And, in this letter, he shares what it has been like to work in the prison’s chapel. Since August of last year, […]
What does Erdogan’s AKP election victory say about Turkish society?
By Ariel Ben Solomon – The Jerusalem Post The Turkish people gave Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party a victory in local elections on Sunday, throwing their support behind a man who has increasingly become dictatorial. Erdogan has clamped down on the press and the Internet, and weeded out his opponents in the police and the […]
Επίθεση της AJC εναντίον του Μπαλτάκου και της Χ.Α.
Επίθεση εναντίον του κ. Μπαλτάκου, για τη συνάντησή του με τον Ηλία. Κασιδιάρη και τα υποστηρικτικά σχόλιά του για τη Χρυσή Αυγή, εξαπέλυσε η Αμερικανο-Εβραϊκή Επιτροπή (American Jewish Committee), η οποία χαρακτηρίζει εντελώς δικαιολογημένη την παραίτηση του πρώην γενικού γραμματέα του υπουργικού συμβουλίου.
Quebec crucial elections: How Parti Quebecois Fell Into Its Own Trap!
By Justine Frangouli – Argyris Pauline Marois, the premier of Quebec and leader of the Parti Québécois, had a carefully prepared recipe whose ingredients entailed calling early elections, handily winning the race and creating her party’s first majority government in over a decade. Buoyed by positive poll numbers showing her in a commanding position, she […]
President Obama Focuses on Hellenes at White House
WASHINGTON, DC, April 4, 2014 — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden focused on Hellenes this afternoon as they celebrated Greek Independence Day at the White House. This was the 28th consecutive year that Greek-Americans met with the sitting US President to celebrate Greece and to focus on matters of Hellenic concern.
The Current Negotiations are not about the Interest of Greek and Turkish Cypriots
By Aris Petasis The current negotiations on the Cyprus problem were initiated by three foreign governments for their own benefit and not out of concern for the democratic rights of the people of Cyprus (Greek and Turkish Cypriots–G/T-C) Negotiations were kick-started by the British and the Americans, with help from Turkey, (the three are referred […]
No Hegemonic Peace in Cyprus
By Marios L. Evriviades Almost forty years to the date, the Turks finally figured out that they had invaded the wrong geographic region of Cyprus. Cyprus’s power wealth, its hydrocarbons, have been found to be located in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off its southern shores and not in its northern ones, where the NATO-trained […]
Turkish courts release eight journalists in two days
New York, March 27, 2014—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release this week of at least eight imprisoned journalists in Turkey, but calls on Turkish authorities to scrap the charges against them and release all of the journalists jailed in the country.