Общероссийское общественное движение
Неправительственный совет национальной безопасности России учреждено в 2011
году. Основой создания ООД НСНБР стала добровольная и безвозмездная (более 2500
мероприятий для детей) антинаркотическая работа Общероссийского союза
общественных объединений "Неправительственный совет национальной безопасности
России" за период с 2000 по 2011г. включительно. Все мероприятия для школьников,
студентов, родителей, учителей, военных, врачей были проведены
председателем НСНБР А.Г.Огнивцевым БЕЗВОЗМЕЗДНО И ДОБРОВОЛЬНО...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The Afghan Taliban are prepared
to open an "office outside the country for talks with foreigners," a purported
spokesman for the movement said in a statement released Tuesday.
The statement could signal the Taliban's public willingness to talk to the
United States for the first time.
Calling himself "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan spokesman," Zabiullah
Mujaheed said the Taliban has a "preliminary agreement with Qatar and other
respective sides." Why Qatar?
The Taliban are asking for the release of prisoners from the United States
detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for opening the office, he
said.
He said the group is also "ready for talks and negotiation inside the
country."
It appears to be the first time the Taliban -- which ruled Afghanistan from
1996 until 2001, when they were ousted in a U.S.-led invasion -- have offered
talks without the condition of an American withdrawal from the country...
As Egyptians head back to the polls for a third round of parliamentary elections, tensions between protesters and the ruling generals are again on the rise. The authorities say NGOs are fostering dissent, and are applying pressure as a result.
The first two rounds of voting yielded a major success for Islamist parties, notably the Freedom and Justice Party linked to the moderate Muslim Brotherhood, and the more orthodox Salafi party, Al-Nur. The current two-day poll is not expected to change that situation.
Continuing protests in Egypt have spurred the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to speed up the electoral process. It will continue with a two-stage ballot to select members of the upper chamber of parliament in late January and mid-February.
The run-up to the third round of voting has seen new clashes between the army and protesters, as well as police raids on non-governmental organizations. RT’s Irina Galushko spoke to activists of one such NGO, who are still puzzled about why their offices were searched.
Members of the Arabic Centre for an Independent Judiciary never did get an official explanation for the confiscation of their laptops and documents, or for their subsequent eviction from their office. “We don’t know what they were searching for. We told them we could give them anything they wanted, but they came in, searched everything, and didn't give a simple answer, whether they wanted bank statements, or anything else,” Hoda Abdel-Wahab, executive director of the organization, told RT.
Sitting on a sidewalk by their former office, the evicted NGO workers point out a certain irony. This never happened when Hosni Mubarak was in charge.
Human rights activists in Egypt believe the raids are attempts to punish them for accusing military rulers of failing to carry through democratic reforms.
But Western observers say the authorities are becoming increasingly wary of the ever-watchful eye of Washington. And the true purpose of raids is to prove foreign funding of organizations which the authorities accuse of destabilizing Egypt. “There seems to be a strand of opinion inside the military and state machine that is very disillusioned with the old friendship with the West, and may be trying to find evidence to prove that some trouble on the streets and Tahrir Square has been in some way fostered by these NGOs,” says Mark Almond, Visiting Associate Professor at Bilkent University.
Washington tirelessly repeats the old adage of the importance of its relations with Egypt as a key player in the Middle East. But the seemingly polite talk may hide a very different agenda. “Washington doesn’t want stabilization, they want permanent unease so that they can use that as a lever in the entire region,” believes historian and journalist F. William Engdahl.
And Egyptian activists are uneasy about accepting Western help, which they say could do more harm than good. “I don’t like the way foreign countries put pressure on the Egyptian authorities. That pressure has to come from the Egyptians, and we as a human rights organization should provide it,” says Abdel-Wahab.
Whatever the real reasons for the raids of NGO offices, the increasing internal strife in the country could portend a shipwreck not just for Egypt's relations with the West, but for the country's revolution.
The promise to scrap his predecessor’s hardliner war-on-terror policies, which helped Barack Obama win presidential election, is apparently off the table. The political reality is that the current administration is doing quite the opposite thing.
Long before he became US president or the winner of a Noble Peace Prize, Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor. During his election campaign he vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor George W. Bush.
Three years later, many civil rights advocates, who once cheered “yes, we can,” are finding themselves disillusioned. “Not only has the Obama administration blocked torture accountability and refused to investigate and prosecute. He has basically maintained indefinite detention. He has revived military commissions. As well he has expanded targeted killings – they’ve increased under the Obama administration manifold, and he’s even authorized the killing of a US citizen,” explains Maria LaHood from the Center for Constitutional Rights.
World-renowned author and scholar Noam Chomsky believes the Obama administration has changed gears and accelerated illegal practices into overdrive. “There is a shift between Bush’s policies and the Obama’s on this. Bush’s policy was to kidnap people, take them to Guantanamo or Bagram or some other torture chamber and try to extract some information from them. Obama’s policy is just to kill them. They’re killing them all over the world. And the Bin Laden assassination was a case point,” he told RT.
Another was the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric. President Obama described the man as “the leader of external operations for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.”
Apart from those two are hundreds more killed by US UAVs. The number of drone strikes during the first two years under Obama exceeded the total carried out during Bush’s 10 years. “If a President McCain were doing the exact same thing that President Obama is doing, he would have been denounced by a lot of liberals. It’s one of those dangerous moments in the US history. We saw it a bit with Clinton in the 1990s, where a democrat campaigned and pledged to change the country and the world has actually pushed the right-wing agenda further forward than a republican could have if they took the power,” says New York-based journalist and author Jeremy Scahill.
As Obama gears up for his re-election campaign, civil liberties groups that believed his words the first time around are now left to judge the commander-in-chief on his actions...
Israel’s politicians and military have a new headache to worry about. High resolution photos of the country’s territory, which are currently unavailable to the public, may soon turn up in the hands of any of its many enemies.
Until now, only the Americans had the technology capable of taking satellite images greater than two meters per pixel resolution, and American law stopped US companies from distributing the pictures. Washington shares Israel’s security concerns and abides by the wishes of its key Middle East ally.
This means even with Google Earth one can zoom into Israel only so far, explains Gerald Steinberg, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University. “If you try to look at specific parts of Israel, many of them will come out blurrier than any other place in the world that I have checked,” he told RT.
But that is about to change. Turkey is putting the finishing touches to a military satellite it plans to launch within the next two years. The Gokturk satellite will be capable of taking the very pictures Tel Aviv does not want distributed, and there are no American-style legal qualms in Turkey about upsetting its photo-sensitive neighbor. “Turkey could sell directly or indirectly some of these imageries to enemies of Israel,” explains Mohammed Najib, defense analyst at Jane’s Defense Weekly.
Such a prospect is especially unnerving for Israelis now, because tensions between Tel Aviv and Ankara are at an all-time low. An aid flotilla attempt on Gaza two years ago that left nine Turks dead, and Ankara’s expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, has Tel Aviv nervously weighing its options.
The irony is that not so long ago the Gokturk satellite would have spelt good news for Israel. The two countries co-operated extensively, especially sharing military intelligence. But whereas once turkey was Israel’s closest ally in the Muslim world, today Ankara is increasingly asserting itself as a powerful player in its own right. “Turkey is trying to say that Israel will not be granted special service or relations that it used to have. They are saying that the eastern Mediterranean is not the playing ground of Israel, there are different countries, everyone should abide by the same laws,” says Dr Nimrod Goren, Middle East politics expert, who focuses on Turkish-Israeli relations.
One satellite is barely enough to put Israel’s picture-shy world in a spin. But this is not a country that wants its neighbors knowing its business, especially with an Arab world in flux, and Israel fast losing former friends.
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Потенциальные кандидаты в президенты от
Республиканской партии выступают в разных частях штата Айова в преддверии
партийных выборов 3 января, в результате которых республиканцы выдвинут одного
кандидата в президенты. Однако встречают их не только сторонники, но и
участники протестного движения «Захвати партийные выборы». Оно является
логическим продолжением движения «Захвати Уолл-стрит». Полиция уже арестовала
многих демонстрантов...
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran test-fired two missiles Monday,
the final day of its naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, state-run media
reported.
The Qader missile, a long-range sea-to-shore missile, was fired during the
"power" stage of the maneuvers, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.
The test was successful, and the missile hit its intended targets, according to
the report.
"A large number of the long-range surface-to-sea Qader missiles have already
been delivered to the Iranian Armed Forces," IRNA said.
A surface-to-surface Nour missile was also successfully tested Monday,
according to Iran's Press TV.
The Nour is an "advanced radar-evading, target-seeking, guided and controlled
missile and can easily find its target and destroy it," IRNA reported, quoting
2nd Adm. Seyed Mahmoud Musavi.
"Iran's navy test-fired a number of medium-range and long-range missiles in
the final stage of the naval drills," Press TV said.
A short-range Nasr missile would also be test-fired Monday, IRNA said.
Iran began the exercises in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman on December
24, IRNA said. Western diplomats have described the maneuvers as further
evidence of Iran's volatile behavior.
Iran also successfully test-fired a medium-range, surface-to-air and
radar-evading Mehrab missile on Sunday, according to the semi-official Fars news
agency. A submarine also successfully fired torpedoes at mock vessels, according
to the report.
Fars added that plans for Monday involve "a new tactic which is designed to
prevent any movement in the Strait of Hormuz if the Iranian navy so
desires."
The French Foreign Ministry said Monday the missile tests send a "very bad
signal to the international community."
"We want to underline that the development by Iran of a missile program is a
source of great concern to the international community," the ministry said in a
written statement. That's why Iran is prohibited from "pursuing any activity on
ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear (war)head," per a U.N.
Security Council resolution, the statement added.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he believes the Iranian exercises
and missile tests reflects "the dire straits of Iran in light of the tightening
sanctions around her, including the considerations in the last few days
regarding the sanctions of exporting petroleum as well as the possibility of
sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank."
Because of their "dire situation," Barak said, Iran is "pulling out the
envelope of threats in order to deter the world from continuing the
sanctions."
The naval exercises focused attention on the strait -- a shipping channel
leading in and out of the Persian Gulf between Iran on one coast and Oman and
the United Arab Emirates on the other. It is strategically important because
tankers carrying oil travel through it -- some 15 million barrels daily in 2009,
according to the U.S.
Общероссийское общественное движение
Неправительственный совет национальной безопасности России учреждено в 2011
году. Основой создания ООД НСНБР стала добровольная и безвозмездная (более 2500
мероприятий для детей) антинаркотическая работа Общероссийского союза
общественных объединений "Неправительственный совет национальной безопасности
России" за период с 2000 по 2011г. включительно. Все мероприятия для школьников,
студентов, родителей, учителей, военных, врачей были проведены
председателем НСНБР А.Г.Огнивцевым БЕЗВОЗМЕЗДНО И ДОБРОВОЛЬНО.
Почетной грамотой Совета Федерации Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации А.Г.Огнивцев награжден в 2003 году за антинаркотики и пропаганду здорового образа жизни (государственная награда).
Благодарственным письмом министра образования Московской области председатель НСНБР А.Г.Огнивцев награжден в 2005 году как ведущий секции Открытых уроков против наркотиков Зональных семинаров министерства образования Московской области.
Благодарностью партии Единая России (Москва, ЮВАО) 2006-2007г. председатель А.Г.Огнивцев награжден как инициатор и ведущий акции Мы, молодежь, против наркотиков.
Благодарностью Главы Серпуховского района Московской области председатель НСНБР А.Г.Огнивцев награжден в 2006 году как ведущий антинаркотических акций и марафонов Серпуховского района Московской области 2005-2006г.
