Day: March 25, 2014

Oh US! Asia will not ‘isolate’ Russia

Source: Asia Times: The Hague Declaration comes complete with the kiss of death, as in, “The International Monetary Fund has a central role leading the international effort to support Ukrainian reform, lessening Ukraine’s economic vulnerabilities, and better integrating the country as a market economy in the multilateral system.” That’s code […]

Turkish Twitter ban

Source: ET Until a day ago, the ban was widely circumvented by Turkish Twitterers, but on March 22, the government blocked Twitter access at the IP level. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE The battle for free speech in the age of the internet is going on across the world. Freedom of speech, these […]

Bangladesh moves to ban Jamaat-e-Islami

ET: DHAKA: Bangladesh war crimes investigators moved on Tuesday to outlaw the country’s largest Islamic party, accusing it of genocide and other atrocities during the 1971 struggle for independence. Government investigators handed a report detailing war crimes allegations against  to prosecutors, in the latest move against the party which has banned […]