Obama’s Final State of the Union: Lies, Evasions and Threats
By Patrick Martin, January 13 2016
The final State of the Union speech delivered Tuesday night by President Barack Obama was a demonstration of the incapacity of the American political system to deal honestly or seriously with a single social question.
Statement by UNICEF Representative
By Julien Harneis, January 13 2016
Statement attributable to Julien Harneis, UNICEF Representative in Yemen “With no end in sight to the deadly conflict in Yemen, nearly 10 million children inside the country are now facing a new year of pain and suffering.”
Japan Threatens East China Sea Stability, Plans to “Drive away Chinese Naval Ships”
By Kou Jie, January 13 2016
Japan plans to use Self-Defense Force units to drive away “Chinese naval ships” from waters near the disputed Diaoyu Islands, a move that experts say will break the currently controlled status-quo and may lead to escalated tensions or even open confrontation in the East China Sea.
Russia Names ‘Color Revolutions’, Foreign NGOs as Security Threats
By Russia Insider, January 13 2016
Russia just issued its revised national security document which names so-called color revolutions as a potential high risk to the country.
Civil Resistance in West Papua
By Jason Macleod, January 13 2016
West Papua is a secret story. On the western half of the island of New Guinea, hidden from the world, in a place occupied by the Indonesian military since 1963, continues a remarkable nonviolent struggle for national liberation.
