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:  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:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 16, 2008	Chronicle of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: Fact sheet
In the Soviet times South Ossetia was an autonomous area within Georgia. In 1991 Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, abolished the autonomy. The South Ossetian authorities rejected that decision and put up an armed resistance to the Georgians. In January 1991 open warfare broke...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 25, 2008	A war between the spirit and self
You can't be a child of God and a child of the world: By KARAN MINNIS, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: Christians fall from grace daily, but it's what you do after "backsliding" that counts, according to many Christian leaders. "To live a Christian life is a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 6, 2008	The McCain Tour and the Manifest Destiny of the U. S. Fourth Fleet
REFLECTIONS BY FIDEL: While I was preparing a reflection about McCain's relationship with the anti-Cuban terrorist mafia in Miami and other related subjects of historical interest, fresh news was flowing about this character that is being projected by the empire’s hawks as Bush’s...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 14, 2008	USAID replaces corrupt Franco with ex-CANF capo
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD—Granma International staff writer— • IN order to "solve" the systematic fraud uncovered in its accounts by a General Accountability Office (GAO) investigation a few months back, the USAID has replaced the corrupt official Adolfo Franco with none other than José...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Apr 17, 2008	Bahamas: Men urged to return to their vital role as fathers, and embrace all the sons and daughters of the Bahamian community
Men urged to return to roles as fathers: By STAFF WRITER, Nassau Guardian - Nassau, Bahamas: Bahamas Faith Ministries Senior Pastor Dr. Myles Munroe is appealing to men to return to their vital role as fathers in our nation, and embrace not only their own children, but all the sons and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Apr 6, 2008	The Chinese victory (Part II)
Reflections of Fidel: WHEN World War I broke out in 1914, China joined the allies. As recompense, China was promised that the German concessions in the province of Shandong would be returned to them at the end of the war. After the Treaty of Versailles, which President Woodrow Wilson...... [view]