Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 17, 2008	Barack Obama's historic victory (1)
By RICHARD FALK* The historic victory by Barack Obama is the first truly global election that has been celebrated by people around the world as if they had been voting participants. The re-election of George W. Bush in 2004 was also a national election with global reverberations, but it...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 9, 2008	Where should Obama start the change in US policy in the Mideast?
By HALUK ÖZDALGA* The Bush administration is approaching its final days in dire disappointment in all areas. In international relations, it is a huge failure felt most severely in the greater Middle East, an area of direct concern for Turkey. The single most important reason for this...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 7, 2008	Who will run the world?
By ANN FLORINI: Barack Obama's election comes at a moment when a new bit of conventional wisdom is congealing. It concerns the end of America's global dominance. True, freewheeling American-style capitalism has not acquitted itself proudly of late. And America's military superiority has not...... [view]

Posted By:  aGn Posted On:  Jul 30, 2008	living with terror
These are precarious times. Blasts and deaths, human life in all its fragility. The perishable elements of which we are made, in violent interaction with explosive chemicals designed to destroy. Mass hysteria channeled through glittering images and psychotic theme-tunes. The death of (self)...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008	So… What Would You Do if YOUR Ancestral Homeland Were About to be Overrun by a Hostile Army?
The fortunes of war have been tilting against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The Tigers are a force of guerrillas and terrorists - there’s no question the word is sometimes appropriate - who are involved in a bitter civil conflict on the island of Sri Lanka. Essentially, a...... [view]

Posted By:  ashokkjha Posted On:  Sep 29, 2008	Tehelka Melodrama
After Rajdeep Sardesai left NDTV,the "Big Fight" programme he hosted lost the sting and insight mainly due to the naivety of the new host Bikram Chandra.But it was very watchable yesterday because all the Anti-Hindutva icons were present in full force there.Congress and BJP were represented...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008	Osama FTW?
In 2004 Bin Laden announced his goal: to bankrupt the U.S. In 2008, Osama called it right . Meanwhile in Afghanistan terrorism is alive and well . It’s also spreading into Pakistan . ... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers Posted On:  Sep 24, 2008	The Strange Story of Abousfian Abdelrazik
The  name of Abousfian Abdelrazik doesn’t trip off the tongue quite as easily as those of Omar Khadr and Maher Arar, two other Canadian citizens with roots in the Islamic world who have been famously caught up in the American-led “war on terror”. Abdelrazik is probably...... [view]

Posted By:  Journalist4peac Posted On:  Sep 23, 2008	Who Are Behind Terrorism Evils ,?
'The Real Story Behind Marriott Attack' 1- 10,000 Indian troops are stationed in Afghanistan under the garb of supervising construction of road Jalalabad-Port Chahbahar project that has now been completed. Whereas India has officially declared 14 Indian consulates in Afghanistan, on ground...... [view]

Posted By:  Journalist4peac Posted On:  Sep 23, 2008	Who Are Behind The Marriott Attack?
'See Who Are Behind Marriott Attack' 1- 10,000 Indian troops are stationed in Afghanistan under the garb of supervising construction of road Jalalabad-Port Chahbahar project that has now been completed. Whereas India has officially declared 14 Indian consulates in Afghanistan, on ground...... [view]

Posted By:  CFR Posted On:  Sep 11, 2008	Morning Update: Terrorism and the Campaigns
Both presidential candidates will visit Ground Zero Thursday morning to commemorate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Washington Post says the issue of terrorism has become less prominent in the presidential campaign. Defense Secretary Robert Gates...... [view]