“Military strikes wouldn’t actually stop Iran’s nuclear program. It would probably accelerate it.” Cirincione discusses how U.S. diplomats can offer security assurances that may urge the Iranians to back down from their nuclear program. The interview is from December 2006 but what has changed? Nothing. Cirincione is right.
G20 leaders from the world’s 20 biggest economies have pledged a crackdown on tax havens as part of the fight to save the global financial system.
Just a few months ago they vowed to blacklist the worst offenders, but one of the world’s wealthiest tax havens has managed to avoid any uncomfortable scrutiny.
In the third of his special reports, Hamish Macdonald travelled to Jersey, in the Channel Islands.
Jersey is home to 47 banks and 90,000 people.
Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, has announced an independent inquiry into the Iraq war and into why and how Britain got involved. The inquiry, however, will be held behind closed doors.
President Obama hosts a press conference from the James Brady Briefing Room at the White House.
On a personal note, I found his opening statement on Iran to have struck the right tone.
Afghans go to the polls in August for the country’s presidential election but campaigning has so far been limited by poor security.
One of the most prominent candidates standing against Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, is Ashraf Ghani, a man once tipped to be secretary-general of the United Nations.
As Al Jazeera’s David Chater reports from Kabul, Ghani is a man ready to risk his life to get his message to the people.