Posted By:  jalexp Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008	Sobre el uso pacífico de la energía nuclear
Hoy el mundo está urgido de un cambio de las tendencias de consumo mundial, caracterizado por lo contaminante de los procesos económicos del mercado internacional. Destaca el cambio climático y otros males ambientales. Hablando de la utilización pacífica de la energía nuclear, señalamos...... [view]

Posted By:  ighih Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008	“I have always supported clean coal”
That Joe Biden felt the need to state and re-state that he has always been a supporter of clean coal in last night’s VP debate is almost as disturbing as the fact itself. There is a tremendous opportunity for change with next month’s election, but it won’t come overnight...... [view]

Posted By:  ascendency Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008	“I have always supported clean coal”
That Joe Biden felt the need to state and re-state that he has always been a supporter of clean coal in last night’s VP debate is almost as disturbing as the fact itself. There is a tremendous opportunity for change with next month’s election, but it won’t come overnight...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 19, 2008	Hydrocarbons - the formula of war
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - Hydrocarbon prices, new nuclear and hydro-power plants, oil blackmail - energy is now one of the central issues discussed in the world. Even the defense sector is not immune: many analysts tend to view most 20th century wars as wars for...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 9, 2008	Besieged by hurricanes
Reflections of Fidel: WE had hardly recovered from the emotional impact and material damage caused by the unexpectedly strong winds of Hurricane Gustav on the Isle of Youth and Pinar del Rio, when news were received of sea floods caused by Hanna. Then, the worst news of all: that the very...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 3, 2008	A NUCLEAR STRIKE
Reflections of Fidel: IT is not an overstatement. This is the general expression of many compatriots. It was the impression of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Alvaro Lopez Miera, an experienced soldier, when he saw the twisted steel towers, the shattered houses...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	How Russia Clobbered Georgia and Lost the War
(Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz for RIA Novosti) - Some critics have pointed to the conflict in Georgia as another example of botched Bush administration foreign policy, but in fact America's real strategy was brilliantly executed and it achieved exactly the intended outcome. Unfortunately it's not an...... [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 13, 2008	Cannon fodder for the market
Reflections of Fidel: PERHAPS some governments are unaware of the concrete facts, and so for that reason Raúl’s message setting Cuba’s position seemed to us to be very timely. I shall be generous in the aspects that cannot be dealt with in a brief and precise official statement. ...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 27, 2008	The two Koreas - Part II
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: ON October 19, 1950, more than 400,000 voluntary Chinese combatants, on orders from Mao Zedong, crossed the Yalu and waylaid the US troops that were advancing towards the Chinese border. The US units, surprised by the vigorous response of the country that they had...... [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]