Mon. January 05, 2009
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:25:53 GMT
Casualties have been pouring into overcrowded hospitals in
Gaza as
Israel continues its offensive against militant groups.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:41:48 GMT
US carmakers report sharp falls in their sales in December as the economic slowdown drives customers away from showrooms.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:24:20 GMT
Steve Jobs, head of Apple, has disclosed in a statement that he is being treated for a hormone imbalance.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:29:35 GMT
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:51:26 GMT
Officers in eastern
DR Congo's main rebel group say they have ousted leader Gen
Laurent Nkunda - a claim he denies.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:25:25 GMT
The
US Congress begins an inquiry into a suspected $50bn (£32bn) fraud allegedly run by the American
hedge fund manager, Bernard Madoff.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:50:15 GMT
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:19:08 GMT
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:18:41 GMT
At least 33 people die and dozens more are missing after part of a mountain collapses on to a road in northern
Guatemala.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:38:08 GMT
Two German
children aged six and five are stopped by police on their way to
Africa for a secret "wedding" in
the sun.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:40:26 GMT
Keen golfers are being warned by doctors that they could be risking their hearing for their
sport.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:55:32 GMT
Carlos Villanueva's goal earns Blackburn victory over non-league Blyth Spartans in the FA Cup third round.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:15:03 GMT
Tottenham and Portsmouth are thought to be about £1.5m apart in their valuations of Pompey striker Jermain Defoe.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:02:48 GMT
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:44:24 GMT
Why Obama has stayed silent over the
Gaza crisis
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Washington Post
January 5, 2009
In October 2004, for example, Bush said that "we are fighting these terrorists with our military in
Afghanistan and
Iraq and beyond so we do not have to ...
He cautions, in the January-February issue of Foreign Affairs, that before the United States starts to think it must rearm for another Cold War after Russia ...
Gates's views on the terrorism threat offer the most interesting bridge between President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama. ...
A longtime Russia analyst during his years with th
... Russia analyst during his years with the CIA, Gates today sees Moscow as less of a threat than do many inside and outside the US military establishment. ...
"Russia, for example, supported the renewal of the UN resolution on Afghanistan," he emphasized. "Russia is very worried about the drugs coming out of ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
January 4, 2009
The authorities in
Bulgaria said they might have to restrict gas use. But farther west,
Germany, the largest consumer of
Russian natural gas in the European ...
The US military said in a statement the woman was "acting erratic" and didn't respond to warnings from Iraqi and American troops near the checkpoint ...
The Indonesian meteorology and Seismology Agency warned that with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 it was strong enough to cause a tsunami. ...
The Danish navy caught the suspects in the Gulf of Aden on Friday after receiving a distress call from the freighter. The Danes intercepted and sank the ...
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Iran for a two-day visit with top leaders, in which he is expected to allay Iranian's concerns ...
But farther west, Germany, the largest consumer of Russian natural gas in the European Union, and Italy reported no troubles two days after Russia halted ...
Monthly Review
January 4, 2009
Why then has
Cuba survived, and what does it mean for
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True, from 1962 onwards this originality began to be compromised by the adoption of Soviet models as a result of the alliance necessitated by the Cold War ...
She has written extensively on Latin America and is also active in solidarity movements such as the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and the Venezuela Information ...
Guiteras was a representative of the autonomous Latin American Marxist trad
But also in broader political terms, without Cuba, Chávez (and hence, at one remove, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and Fernando Lugo in ...
As the new project of "twenty-first century socialism" and the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) develops, Cuba also ties in with the cultural ...
Although the young revolutionaries who coalesced around the activist lawyer Fidel Castro Ruz in the early 1950s had some familiarity with socialist ideas, ...
New York Times
January 4, 2009
By THOM SHANKER and HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON - After rebuffing
the Bush administration on a number of fronts,
European governments are signaling that they ...
Thomas Steg, a spokesman for the German government, said that such a deal would hinge on Mr. Obama's closing the military prison, and that even then, ...
the United States, along with Europe, Russia and China, has been trying to get Iran to
The Kremlin has responded with outrage to the Bush administration's plans to place two American missile defense bases in Europe, one in Poland and one in ...
NATO has not met its pledges for combat troops, nor for the vitally important transport helicopters, military trainers and other support personnel. ...
"There are expectations across Europe that the United States will be asking more," one senior American official said. "The question is whether decisive ...
A particularly clear signal was sent by his decision to keep Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who has called for more emphasis on Afghanistan - and who ...
San Francisco Chronicle
January 4, 2009
W. looked to conservative icon
Ronald Reagan. Yet instead of cementing a "permanent Republican majority," he ended the Reagan era. ...
He refused to say whether he would have invaded knowing Iraq had no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Clearly, neither Congress nor the public would have gone ...
He named two relatively young conservatives to the Supreme Court. He declared by himself a "global war on terror" and asserted unprecedented executive ...
But even if the war in Iraq one day fulfills Bush's vision of democracy in the Middle East, the global financial crisis may have sealed his fate. ...
Bush delegated the war to the Pentagon, and fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld only after Republicans lost control of Congress in 2006. ...
As is Gerald Ford, whose pardon of Nixon may have cost him his election but b
All modern presidents leave office sullied, yet many, like Harry Truman, Bill Clinton and even Jimmy Carter, have had their reputations restored with time. ...
