Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 23, 2008	45 YEARS AFTER THE ASSAINATION OF JOHN. F. KENNEDY
The CIA Nostra By Gabriel Molina: • CIA documents declassified since 1992 under the JFK Records Act, in conjunction with other investigations, demonstrate that President John F. Kennedy was the victim of a sinister conspiracy. But the surviving assassins and masterminds, although...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 21, 2008	The meeting with Hu Jintao
Reflections by comrade Fidel: I did not want to talk a lot, but he obliged me to expand on things; I asked some questions and, basically, listened to him. His words recounted the feats of the Chinese people in the last 10 months. Heavy and unseasonal snowfall, an earthquake that...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 19, 2008	Washington summit: converting G8 into G20?
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - On November 14-15, 2008, Washington, D.C. hosted the G20 Leaders Summit on Financial Strategy and the World Economy. The summit achieved general agreement on how to cooperate in key areas to strengthen economic growth, deal with the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 18, 2008	Barack Obama's historic victory (2)
By RICHARD FALK* Barack Obama's presidential victory, above all, signaled to the world an American willingness to repudiate Bush militarist and unilateralist approaches to global policy. Time will tell, but what now prevails is an unprecedented mood of high and happy expectations.The...... [view]

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 15, 2008	My expectations of Obama: between hope and fear
By: ABDULLAH AL-AHSAN* All human expectations always involve some degree of hope and fear. Barack Obama's election victory is certainly a huge transformation in history, and naturally it engages us in both. "Yes, we can" has created dreams and hopes, and under the circumstances, the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 13, 2008	Obama, expectations, realities and ‘those’ Muslims
By MUHAMMED ÇETİN: All around the world people rejoiced when Barack Obama was elected US president. Some perceive his election as a victory against "aggressive and unilateral neocon interests across the world." However, there are exaggerated expectations about the course of action...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 12, 2008	The first world peace prompted the Second World War
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - The First World War ended exactly 90 years ago - in peace, as all wars do. That peace was the first attempt in history to establish a truly global control system which would not allow a repetition of a global war. The aim of that...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 10, 2008	After Bush, Obama must catch up with Russia
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - George Bush Jr. has managed to cultivate such a strong feeling against his White House in the world and has dented US reputation so badly that any change on Pennsylvania Avenue is like a breath of fresh air. The new US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 8, 2008	Obama ran: Our children can fly
By Sir Ronald Sanders: We have lived through a truly historic moment. The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America defied all odds and lifted the hopes and aspirations of people of all races and nationalities. But, his election has created unreasonable...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 5, 2008	Lame ducks are planting mines
MOSCOW. (Military analyst Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) - The United States has elected its first Afro-American president, Barack Obama. President-elect Obama will have little time to celebrate as he prepares to select his cabinet and further layout the country's policies for the next four...... [view]