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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 1, 2011

  NATO’s genocidal role (Part IV)

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate)   ON March 2, under the title "NATO’s inevitable War," I wrote: "As opposed to the situation in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies first place in the Human Development Index within Africa...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 15, 2011

  Does America need a new social contract?

By Rebecca Theodore If liberal democratic theory and practice in America thrives under the classical social contract tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, then it would be sacrilegious of me to suggest something different. Why fix it if it is not broken? On the other hand,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 4, 2011

  NATO's inevitable war

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate)   AS opposed to the situation in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies first place in the Human Development Index within Africa and has the highest life expectancy rate on the continent. Education and health receive...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 8, 2010

  Trinidad prime minister's 'conditional aid' smacks of the worst kind of selfishness

By Dr David Hinds Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamal Bissessar, caused a stir in regional circles a few months ago when she declared that Trinidad and Tobago would no longer be the region’s ATM machine. The Prime Minister may have been trying to distance her new government from...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 16, 2010

  Those Chilean miners were truly born again

BY KEEBLE McFARLANE IN the mythology of ancient Egypt, a sacred bird they called the phoenix would renew itself every few hundred years from the ashes of a fire into which it had placed itself. This week we were privileged to witness a modern version of that bird descending into the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 3, 2010

  The rising danger of US-China trade war

The overwhelming vote on Wednesday in the US House of Representatives for a bill opening the door for punitive tariffs against China over its currency marks a dangerous step toward trade war. The legislation, directed against any country whose currency is assessed as “fundamentally...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 18, 2010

  A late lesson for an old revolutionary

BY KEEBLE McFARLANE In the bad old days of the now defunct Soviet Union, exasperated citizens described their dilemma with a hoary old phrase: "We pretend to work and the state pretends to pay us". Well, the grand communist experiment imploded and collapsed just over two decades ago, and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 7, 2010

  Economic fault lines deepen in Europe

By Stefan Steinberg: Last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised its forecast for growth in the 16-nation Eurozone by just over half a percent, to an average rate of 1.6 percent for 2010. Earlier estimates had predicted growth of only 1.0 percent. This predicted increase is...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 12, 2010

  Nationalism in a post-Independence Bahamas

By RUPERT MISSICK JR - rmissick@tribunemedia.net and NOELLE NICOLLS - nnicolls@tribunemedia.net Tribune Staff Reporters: IN Derek Walcott’s celebrated poem “The Schooner Flight” the character Shabine describes himself: "I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, I had a sound...... [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:  avishkar
Posted On:  Oct 29, 2008

  Tamil Nationalism and Tamil Identity

Vanakkam, it has occured to me that the cause of Tamil Nationalism and indeed the whole of the debate on the issue of Tamil identity seems to be centred on the 3 million Tamil people who are a minority in Sri Lanka (which has a total population of 18 million). While it is true that outside of...... [view]

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