Still staying on the issue of Russia, Mark Dillen, head of an international public affairs consultancy and blog writer for FPA's 2008 Presidential Election and Public Diplomacy blogs, attended and discussed the World Affairs Council of Northern California's annual conference which featured a ‘Reading Russia’ series. Dillen discusses that most of the scholars present were […]
Three people were killed and four others wounded in armed clashes that raged well into the early morning hours Tuesday in east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley between pro- and anti-government supporters. News reports said rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machine gunfire were used in the fighting that took place in the villages of Taalbaya and Saadnayel. Al […]
“The owl of Minerva flies at dusk”, the philosopher Hegel, wearing only a false moustache and flapping his arms, liked to whisper conspiratorily to terrified passers-by. (No wonder his last words were: "Only one man had ever understood me, and he didn't understand me”. But I digress.) Just so, I am having a very difficult […]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Lebanon on Monday to bolster the troubled country's new president, as rival political leaders still struggle to form a new government. Rice said she made the trip to “express the United States’ support for Lebanese democracy, for Lebanese sovereignty.” We support the democratically elected […]
A few days ago we discussed newly minted Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev's first foreign visit to Kazakhstan, but equally if not more important to the CA region and the world at large is where he went next, China. He met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in a visit that was both […]
EU MP's prepared a memorandum urging the European Union to declare Hizballah a “terrorist organization.” European deputies representing parliamentary blocs across the political spectrum have begun to collect signatures on a petition calling for the addition of Hezbollah to the terrorism list as it "constituted a direct terrorist threat to the security of the European […]
John McCain's Interview on NBC's The Today Show (YouTube excerpt) If you’ve had any contact with the media this week, I’m sure you haven't been able to escape comments made about John McCain's interview on NBC's The Today Show. As I’m sure you all can tell by now, I have no plan on voting republican in the next […]
Not to be outdone by yesterday's tennis ‘interviews’ in the Daily Telegraph, this Sunday's New York Times front page photo made sure no-one skipped straight to the magazine section: “Free and Flush, Russians Eager to Roam Abroad”, the headline beamed, in case anyone might also be interested in reading the accompanying article, which happened to […]
“They very rarely looked like endangering the Russian goal, Greece. There's no doubt the better team won today, Russia showed good pace and got forward well and they are a young, quick team who are only going to get better and better.” BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Pat Nevin
The English may accuse Russia of bad sportsmanship in the boardroom, but they certainly wouldn't mind taking a bit of a corporate raiding from the new crop of Soviet bloc sportswomen. A series of ‘interviews’ to “assess the changes on court” was The Daily Telegraph's highly plausible excuse to “meet eight rising stars from the […]
With corn prices rising due in part to global climate changes, flooding, and droughts, the question arises: should Mexico use genetically modified seeds to improve crop yields, particularly corn? If a seed species were available that was drought and pest resistant, should it be used? The fact of the matter is that such a miracle […]
The runoff election approaches in Zimbabwe and three trends are beginning to emerge: Robert Mugabe and his supporters are continuing to dig in their heels. The outside world is increasingly vocal about concerns but still short on tangible action. And the runoff appears set to go on as long as the Movement for Democratic Change […]
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