Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 10, 2008	After Bush, Obama must catch up with Russia
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - George Bush Jr. has managed to cultivate such a strong feeling against his White House in the world and has dented US reputation so badly that any change on Pennsylvania Avenue is like a breath of fresh air. The new US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 6, 2008	The Obama revolution
It was, more than ever, the world's election. It certainly felt like one. The buzz was in the air for a long time. The change Barack Obama mentioned as "a long time comin'" signified not only a dramatic shift of power from an largely abused one to one with fresh hope, but also a revolutionary...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 3, 2008	The American dream
By ÖMER TAŞPINAR: History will not be kind to the Bush administration. According to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, an unscientific poll of 109 professional historians found that 61 percent rated President George W. Bush as the worst president in American history. A...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 18, 2008	The unheard of
Reflections of Fidel: ON Sunday, October 12, the Eurozone countries agreed an anti-crisis plan at the initiative of French President Sarkozy. On Monday 13th came the announcement of multimillion funds that the European countries are to inject into the financial market to avoid a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008	Bailout Blues
By Joseph E. Stiglitz: It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the United States’ financial system – indeed, global finance – is in a mess. And now, with the US House of Representatives having rejected the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion bailout plan, it is also...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 2, 2008	Grateful or Hateful?
Time to think—Grateful or hateful: D. Paul Reilly, For The Guardian - Nassau, Bahamas: As I have written about on many occasions in the past, life is all about one's 'Attitude' toward literally everything. We can all look upon anything that is happening to us at any given moment in...... [view]

Posted By:  qnp Posted On:  Dec 19, 2007	One more blog post about how much Spirit Airlines sucks.
So I'm sitting here in Miami Airport after getting here two hours early and Spirit Airlines tells me that my flight has already left. Flash back three days earlier- I'm sitting in La Guardia and the woman working at the Spirit desk is apologizing that my flight to Miami has left without me....... [view]