Posted By:  sabry1660 Posted On:  Aug 19, 2008 View:  [view]	Do boys always like blue, and girls pink?

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 6, 2008	Rescuing the rescue plan
By ASIM ERDİLEK: What a turbulent and dramatic week it was for the US and the global economies, with sudden political uncertainty about the fate of the bailout plan on top of the worsening financial crisis! The rescue plan had to be rescued itself with political scrambling and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008	Will capitalism collapse?
By ATİLLA YAYLA: The crisis in the financial markets and financial institutions that has affected the US and the UK and has the potential to slowly spread from these countries to other countries throughout the world has given the circles that hate the monster known as capitalism the chance...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008	If Obama were white
By ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ: As a presidential election closely monitored by the entire world nears its conclusion, new issues emerge to rekindle discussions. Some of them are the same kinds of trivial matters raised by the media during every election, such as images of Sarah Palin,...... [view]

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:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 29, 2008	US debates bailout as crisis worsens
BY: ASIM ERDİLEK: The US Treasury’s sweeping bailout plan hastily presented to the US Congress last Monday to end the global financial crisis has unleashed a furious debate, stalling congressional approval of the plan. This welcome debate, after Congress commendably refused to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 15, 2008	Latin America and the Caribbean face significant challenges because of climate change, energy sustainability and steep food price increases, among other factors
Regional Challenges Pile Up : By Quincy Parker - Nassau, Bahamas: Extreme poverty has been reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, and regional democracy has remained relatively stable over the...... [view]

Posted By:  dkaiyo Posted On:  Aug 29, 2008	Mbeki snubs Tsvangirai
Mbeki snubs Tsvangirai Herald Reporters SOUTH AFRICAN President Thabo Mbeki snubbed attempts by MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai to meet him outside the framework of the inter-party dialogue last week as it emerged that the opposition party was now pushing for more talks. After the opening...... [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 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:  Aug 20, 2008	NATO's 'Caucasus Council'
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political observer Andrei Fedyashin) - The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels on August 19 at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique. In the end it turned...... [view]