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Mugabe has this idea that if he can produce a petition denouncing the ‘illegal economic’ sanctions against Zimbabwe, that the participating countries will conform and accede to his request.
But there are two things wrong with this idea.
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While the million march didn’t happen, Mugabe launched his two million signature petition against sanctions.
Many of those signatures were secured through...
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Iranians buying American juice. The New York Times is opposed. Atta Kenare/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images.
The New York Times has a new investigative piece about...
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Do sanctions work?
Yes, sanctions do indeed work. And often devastatingly so. America’s sanctions regime against Iraq saw the death of roughly 500,000 innocent...
made popular Oct 6 2010
Mugabe is incapable of telling the truth - plain and simple.
I thought that today I would look at some of the lies that he attempts to tell the world as...
made popular Oct 1 2010
Two and a half years after the MDC won the parliamentary majority in the general election, they struggle to hold on to any power at all. Everything that is tabled by...
made popular Aug 21 2010
Mugabe loves playing with people’s minds. He let fly at the West at what should have been an austere, sorrowful event - his own sister’s burial at the National...
made popular Aug 5 2010
Didn’t I say that Mugabe would turn the funeral of his sister into an anti-West rant?
“Zimbabwe’s president says the death of his sister robbed him...
made popular Aug 3 2010
The U.N. chief on Monday called for more talks on Iran’s atomic program, saying new sanctions against Tehran have not shut the door to a diplomatic resolution of...
made popular Jun 29 2010
I find it very irritating that ZANU PF have this belief that Tsvangirai is behind the targeted travel sanctions - which Mugabe annoyingly calls “illegal economic...
made popular May 4 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH’-hoo) is calling for “crippling sanctions” against Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear...
made popular Apr 20 2010
Israel’s Prime Minister called off his trip to Washington next week to attend a conference on the spread of nuclear weapons, officials in his office said, fearing...
made popular Apr 9 2010
Today I was astounded to read a story in which a pro-ZANU PF governor is blaming ‘illegal economic’ sanctions upon the fact that she travel over one thousand...
made popular Mar 30 2010
Just yesterday, we read how the British ambassador rejected claims by the Mugabe regime that Zimbabwe is the subject of economic sanctions by the Western world.
Mugabe...
made popular Mar 16 2010
Zuma’s not having a good time of it, is he? First of all he asked the English Prime Minister to lift targeted sanctions on Mugabe and his goons and was refused....
made popular Mar 12 2010
I see on the news wires this morning that Mugabe has decided that he might have some more freedom and understanding if the Conservative party were in power in the...
made popular Mar 5 2010
Mugabe never intended to honestly go back to the negotiation table. He has given so little by way of concessions - and his party didn’t even win the general...
made popular Jan 29 2010
Mugabe and his close confidantes are subject to targeted travel sanctions – and this entails the prohibition of those listed in travelling freely to participating...
made popular Jan 23 2010
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Yesterday Mugabe had a brief opportunity to address the Copenhagen Climate Change conference - and, as we thought he might, he had a go at the USA and the UK and the...
made popular Dec 17 2009
The failure of the international community to reach a deal with Tehran is sparking fears of an atomic arms race in the volatile and oil-rich region.
While the West may...
made popular Dec 17 2009
Having commentated on the Zimbabwean crisis for a few years - and having the ‘inside edge’ of having lived in that country for 3o-odd years - I am still...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Iran had no intention of building 10 new nuclear facilities until it was strongly rebuked by the U.N. nuclear watchdog over its nuclear activities, the country’s...
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In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Iran has begun a large-scale war games air defensive aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack. An air force commander is boasting his country can deter...
made popular Nov 23 2009
Just a few days ago, one of Mugabe’s senior ministers gave a rare interview to ABC.
When asked about sanctions, Mutasa boasted: “I am one of the targeted...
made popular Nov 18 2009
Six months after declaring the six-party talks on the future of its nuclear weapons programme “dead”, North Korea relented somewhat yesterday, suggesting...
made popular Oct 7 2009
As the days go by, and the interest is awash with stories of the ZANU PF/Mugabe duplicity, I am always quite stunned at the inaction taken by the free world.
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made popular Sep 29 2009
North Korea says it will strengthen its nuclear arsenal if new sanctions are imposed because of its weapons program.
Pak Kil Yon, the country’s deputy foreign...
made popular Sep 29 2009
“Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, who has taken over at least six of Zimbabwe’s most valuable white-owned farms since 2002, sells up to a million litres...
made popular Sep 29 2009
“Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, in a rare interview Thursday, depicted himself as an African hero battling imperialism and foreign attempts to oust him rather...
made popular Sep 25 2009
Previewing the new US Burma policy with the 17-member UN Group of Friends on Burma in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US will pursue a policy of...
made popular Sep 24 2009
President Obama’s biggest foreign policy gamble appeared to pay off last night as Russia opened the door to punishing new sanctions on Iran to halt its nuclear...
made popular Sep 24 2009
Sometimes we read stories that can only make us laugh for the idiocy therein.
Mugabe is due to address the United Nations - again - and there is also an interview on...
made popular Sep 24 2009
The African Union on Friday announced it would impose sanctions on Guinea\’s junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, over his intention to run in upcoming...
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President Barack Obama took office promising to pursue a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, but so far, he’s gotten little out...
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President Nicolas Sarkozy criticized Iranian leaders for their handling of contested elections and their nuclear program, and pleaded for a new push for peace in the...
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I have been reading Peter Godwin’s “When A Crocodile Eats The Sun” and found a particular part in it that is not only relevant to the situation on the ground in...
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