Nov 28 2013
World Fights Back Against the Biggest Brother in History
Published by Truthdig.com on November 28, 2013
By Sonali Kolhatkar
The United States’ vast and indiscriminate worldwide surveillance of ordinary people and heads of state has no historical precedent. Now countries around the world are fighting back using the United Nations as a vehicle for change. In a move that received little media coverage in the U.S., a United Nations committee approved without a vote a draft resolution entitled “The Right to Privacy in …
Uprising’s guest expert Rahul Mahajan, sociologist and news analyst and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Juan Orlando Hernández, the head of the conservative National Ruling Party of Honduras has declared victory in Presidential elections held over the weekend. His lead, which has now been declared “irreversible” by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, has been disputed by his main rival, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. 
According to the Miami Herald, Earl Sampson, a 28 year old African American man in Miami Gardens, has been questioned 258 times in four years, arrested 62 times for trespassing while on his own work place, and searched more than 100 times. 
This year’s holiday shopping creep has angered many Americans but many more will likely show up on Thanksgiving morning or afternoon to spend their dollars on things they don’t need instead of spending their time with those they love. 
After decades of deadlock, it took a new Iranian President to break through icy relations between Western nations and Iran. A high-level meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, over the weekend, resulted in an historic agreement for Iran to restrict its nuclear program in exchange for an easing of economic sanctions. 
The 19th annual Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change wrapped up in Warsaw, Poland over the weekend. COP 19 as it was called, was a 2 week high-level international meeting for governments worldwide to agree on a framework in preparation to sign a comprehensive treaty on curbing climate change in 2015 in Paris, France. 
