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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 30, 2009

  China: the future great economic power

(Taken from Cubadebate THESE days many cables are talking about China’s economic potential. Yesterday, March 28, it was the turn of the principal U.S. news agency to acknowledge that "China is the only economy growing at a fast clip… "In his second rebuke of U.S. leadership this...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 24, 2009

  America Is Moving Toward Czarism and Away from Democracy

By David Sirota, SFGate.com: History's great American parables teach that if anything unified our founders, it was a deep antipathy to dictatorship. As bourgeois revolutionaries from Boston to Philadelphia courageously split with the British crown in 1776, they created three equal branches...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 7, 2009

  Political Islam, secular elite and democracy in the Middle East (1)

By A. KADİR YILDIRIM* What is a bigger threat to democratization in the Middle East, reigning secular-elite parties and regimes or popular Islamic parties? Discourse against Islamic parties in the region appears to be the norm, usually in favor of authoritarian but secular regimes....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 6, 2008

  Sailing against the tide

Reflections of Fidel: AFTER Obama’s speech to the Cuban-American National Foundation, created by Ronald Reagan, in the afternoon of May 23 this year, I wrote a reflection titled "The Cynical Politics of the Empire," dated the 25th of that month. In it, I quoted his words to the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 22, 2008

  How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth

By Herve Kempf , Chelsea Green Publishing There is an emergency. In less than a decade we will have to change course, but there are a few major obstacles blocking the way. The following is reprinted from the new book How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Herve Kempf and...... [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:  May 4, 2008

  "For every step forward in press freedom last year, there were two steps back", said Freedom House Executive Director Jennifer Windsor

Bahamas Ranks 37th In World Press Freedom - Report Says Press Freedom Declines: Bahama Journal - A non governmental organization based in the United States has ranked The Bahamas 37th in a worldwide assessment of press freedom, referring to instances where undue pressure might have been...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 23, 2008

  Crime And Punishment In The Bahamian Society

OPINION-Crime and punishment - The Nassau, Guardian: There are around one thousand people in prison in The Bahamas. Is that a lot or little? How can we tell? Compared to the 2.2 million people languishing in U.S. jails it does not sound all that many, but the population of The Bahamas...... [view]

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