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]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 26, 2008	The Two Koreas
Reflections of Fidel: PART I - THE Korean nation, with its unique culture that differentiates it from its Chinese and Japanese neighbors, has existed for three thousand years. These characteristics are typical of societies in that Asian region, including those of China, Vietnam and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 10, 2008	Yankee response in the hemisphere: the Fourth Fleet of intervention
IT was created in 1943 to fight Nazi submarines and protect shipping during World War II. It was deactivated as unnecessary in 1950. The Southern Command was meeting the needs of United States hegemony in our region. However, it has been reborn in recent days, after 48 years, and its...... [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:  JURI Posted On:  Apr 12, 2008	1941-2008 Франция-Англия-Россия-Америка
Экономические источники фашизма. Сложнейшая смесь денег, власти и знаний, образовавшаяся в Британии под главенством древней аристократии, смогла поставить под...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Mar 27, 2008	Bush in Heaven (Part 1)
Reflections of Fidel: IN this reflection I will go by news received from different sources, including international cable services, –without specifically recognizing any of them as the information source, but strictly abiding by the text of the news-- books, documents, the Internet, and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Feb 21, 2008	Reflections of President Fidel Castro: The Republican Candidate
(Part One) THESE reflections are self-explanatory. On the now well-known Super Tuesday, a day of the week when many U.S. states selected the candidate of their choice from among a pool of aspirants to the presidency of the United States, one of the possible candidates to substitute George...... [view]