Listening to: The same...

Reposted from euro|topics 16/12/2008...

A journalist has hurled his shoe at George W. Bush during the outgoing US president's parting visit to Iraq. The European press comments on the incident and takes stock of the US intervention in the country.

Večer - Slovenia
The daily Večer writes about Bush's policy in Iraq and ( Read more... )

Listening to: The same...

Reposted from euro|topics: War in the Caucasus (11/08/2008)

Dagens Nyheter - Sweden
American intellectual Naomi Wolf writes in Dagens Nyheter newspaper about the many images and reports of torture and war crimes commited by Americans, which most of her countrymen disavow. Openly doubting her feelings of patriotism, she cries ( Read more... )

Listening to: Not much... mostly wind and seagulls.

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Listening to: Ozzy, Duran Duran, and a CNC machine of some variety...

Get madder than Mel [Hurtig] and say, 'I'm not going to take it anymore.'
by Scott Harris for Vue Weekly, Dateline: Sunday, May 25, 2008

Excerpted from: http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature8.cfm?REF=307

Actually, by his own admission, he's not just upset, he's seriously pissed ( Read more... )

Listening to: The same...

Reposted from euro|topics: newsletter 15/05/2008

Times of Malta - Malta
Leo Brincat joins the debate about the future role of the USA initiated by the Americans Richard Haass and Fareed Zakaria: "The world that both these personalities envisage is one in which the US will no longer dominate the global economy, ( Read more... )

Listening to: The  Bird and the Bee

Reposted from: http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature8.cfm?REF=247

All the candidates must tiptoe around the fact that the Empire is in peril.
James Laxer, Monday, April 28, 2008

Without acknowledging it, the three remaining major party candidates for the presidency are debating that oldest of imperial questions - ( Read more... )