Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Dec 4, 2008	Will NATO survive without Ukraine and Georgia?
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - Neither Ukraine nor Georgia received the Membership Action Plan (MAP) status at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. This was so clear that the issue was not even discussed. In NATO, one vote is enough to reject a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Dec 3, 2008	Obama's possible wars
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - The new U.S. administration is assuming power against the background of a growing global economic crisis, and continued conflicts in different countries. Which conflicts may end, and which may flare up after Barrack Obama comes into...... [view]

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:  Oct 14, 2008	The White House ghost
Reflections of Fidel: THREE days ago, on Friday October 10, the world was shocked by the impact of the Wall Street financial crisis. There is no way to count the millions of dollars in paper money injected by the Federal Reserve into the world’s finances to keep up banking operations and...... [view]

Posted By:  RESET Posted On:  Oct 10, 2008	Bildergalerie: In Afghanistan with the ISAF
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is the mission established by the UN Security Council in 2001 to secure parts of Afghanistan to allow the establishment of Hamid Karzai's new administration. The ISAF operates separately, but cooperatively, with the U.S. coalition operation in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 28, 2008	The goal that cannot be renounced
Reflections of Fidel: AROUND 35,000 Cuban health specialists are providing free or paid services in the world. Furthermore, some young doctors from countries such as Haiti and others among the poorest of the Third World are working in their homelands thanks to the assistance provided by...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 23, 2008	Russian Navy deploys ships to Venezuela
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - A Russian Navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers Posted On:  Sep 17, 2008	A Green Shift and an Incontinent Puffin are no Substitute for a Clash of Geopolitical Visions
Our election campaign is well underway. We’ve had Harper in a fluffy sweater , Dion in ski goggles , May in a snit until she was allowed into the debate , and a flying cyberpuffin whose digital defecation damaged Dion’s dignity. We’ve also had some individual policy...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers Posted On:  Aug 25, 2008	Georgia on my Mind
Probably the most interesting event on the international stage while I was away in Inner Mongolia was the brief war between Russia and Georgia, which of course resulted in a clear military defeat for the latter. Since I didn’t have access to the blog at the height of the action, I...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 26, 2008	NATO – the paper alliance
(John Laughland for RIA Novosti) - As the dust settles on the conflict in South Ossetia - and as it vanishes progressively from the headlines in the Western press - one thing has become overwhelmingly clear. It is that Georgia will now never join NATO and that the balance of power in the world...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 22, 2008	A limp iron fist in a velvet glove: Czechoslovakia 40 years ago
MOSCOW. (Anatoly Korolev for RIA Novosti) - Forty years on, the world is remembering the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. This is what the Pravda, the most influential Soviet newspaper, wrote at the time: "They have come to do their internationalist duty to the fraternal...... [view]