Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008	Democratic socialism
Reflections of Fidel: I did not want to write a third consecutive reflection, but I can not leave this until Monday. There is one accurate response to Bush’s "democratic capitalism:" Chavez’ democratic socialism. There couldn’t be a more accurate way to express the great...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Sep 29, 2008	Ecuador Gives Nature Rights in Constitution
This is just freaking awesome: Ecuadorians believe that nature ought to be protected by their constitution . While the the new constitution has many ramifications for how the country will now be governed, the pro-nature aspects of the constitution have their roots in Ecuador’s resentment...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers Posted On:  Sep 1, 2008	Nations within Nations within Nations…
When Canada’s Constitution was repatriated back in 1982, Aboriginal leaders worked hard to ensure that the protection of Aboriginal rights became part and parcel of the new rules for Canadian society.  Their efforts bore the fruit of the small but powerful sentence of Section 35.1 : ...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008	From Kosovo to South Ossetia: in search of a precedent
MOSCOW. (Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies for RIA Novosti) - When Europe and the US advocated the independence of Kosovo, many experts warned that its impact on the Caucasus would be destabilising. The Allies responded by repeating that Kosovo...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 16, 2008	Chronicle of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: Fact sheet
In the Soviet times South Ossetia was an autonomous area within Georgia. In 1991 Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, abolished the autonomy. The South Ossetian authorities rejected that decision and put up an armed resistance to the Georgians. In January 1991 open warfare broke...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 11, 2008	Bahamas Equipped To Tackle The Future - Says Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham On The Country's 35th Birthday
PM: Bahamas Equipped to Tackle The Future: By TOSHEENA ROBINSON-BLAIR - Nassau, Bahamas: In his Independence Day address to the nation, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham yesterday urged the Bahamas to draw on all its talents, resources and cultural strength in facing internal and external...... [view]

Posted By:  RaquelEvita Posted On:  Jul 3, 2008	US Government: profiling a-ok?
The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing , ABC reports. Currently, or on the books, at least- something called evidence (go figure!) is needed to open an investigation of suspected terrorist activity. Intensive...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Apr 22, 2008	Peace and prosperity
Reflections of Fidel: POPE Benedict XVI outshone Brown, the British Prime Minister, who replaced Blair, whom I met and spoke with for a few minutes during a recess at the WTO Second Conference in Geneva 10 years ago; it was following his speech and I was expressing my disagreement on the...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Apr 12, 2008	POWER-SHARING: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
The constitutional reform debate in Sri Lanka is in a particularly enervated state as we approach the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, with a government in power that displays that bizarre concoction of procrustean infantilism that so characterised the Jayewardene and Premadasa attitudes to...... [view]

Posted By:  municholas Posted On:  Apr 11, 2008	Révision constitutionnelle au Cameroun: quel avenir pour sa jeunesse?
Jeudi 10 Avril 2008, l'Assemblée Nationale du Cameroun, composée en majeur parti des députés RPDC, (parti au pouvoir) 153 députés sur 180 dont dispose la chambre, adoptera la nouvelle constitution. Le projet de loi déposé à l'Assemblée Nationale par le gouvernement, propose la levée...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Apr 2, 2008	The Great European Union (EU) Betrayal
An erosion of democracy:- By The Nassau Institute - Nassau, Bahamas: The new European Union treaty approved at a summit of member states in Lisbon in October, 2007, has attracted fierce opposition in Britain. It has been labeled "the great EU betrayal". The controversy is as much...... [view]