The New Financial War: Electronic Credit Creation
GOVERNMENTS HANGING CITIZENS OUT TO DRY AGAIN
Syria backs Maliki for another term
Syria was furious with Maliki for what happened in the summer of 2009.
Kosovo Demands International Legitimacy
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci give a press conference in Pristina, Kosovo, 13 Oct. 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to work for broader international recognition of Kosovo on Wednesday during a visit to Pristina, the first by a U.S. chief diplomat since Kosovo’s independence in…
The AK-47: ‘The Gun’ That Changed The Rules of the Battlefield
The flag of Hezbollah features a fist holding an AK-47. The gun has become a symbol worldwide
Chinese Communist Party outraged over Nobel Peace Prize
Liu Xiaobo, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace prize, is often called the “conscience” of China. Currently serving an 11-year jail term for subversion, Liu had been a strong advocate for human rights, freedom of expression, and democracy in China. He had joined student protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and spent time in…
OBAMA: THE GRAND ILLUSION
Will President Obama go down in history for having set a new course on foreign policy, or for having shown unexpected continuity with his predecessor? As one of his first acts after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year. “This is me,”…
TEARS of a CLOWN: GLEN BECK, The Tea Baggers and Mormonism
In one of his first appearances on Fox News, Glenn Beck sent a coded message to the nation’s six million Mormons — or at least those Mormons who believe in what the Latter-day Saints call “the White Horse Prophecy.” “We are at the place where the Constitution hangs in the balance,” Beck told Bill O’Reilly…
God may not be Brazilian: BUT,,,
GOD may not be Brazilian, as many of the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro proudly boast, but The Almighty seems to be swinging His or Her not inconsiderable influence towards the Cidade Maravilhosa, the Marvellous City on the South Atlantic ocean, as it pitches strongly for the chance of staging the 2016 Olympic Games. Its…
Winds Of Change: Israel and Palestine share vital interests
In late August, when Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to the Obama administration’s plan to renew face-to-face negotiations without preconditions, most opinion makers reacted with deep skepticism. So anxious were the editors of the New York Times to declare the talks all but dead-on-arrival that they led with a dismissive article labeled “News Analysis”—the first…
The King of Moscow: A look back at Yuri Luzhkov
What the downfall of Moscow’s colorful mayor really says about the Kremlin