I have carefully parsed UNSC Res 2118 and while I did not find any great surprises in its contents, I would qualify it as a half-full glass, meaning that while this resolution does not fix…
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they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary—Isaiah 40:31 Deriorating into oblivion, the world’s largest army cannot move fast enough to cope with the immediateness of the…
CNN PRODUCER NOTE : Oglim has been very interested in the protests in South Korea and elsewhere over what those protesting believe to be voter fraud in the elections in late 2012 (CNN cannot verify these…
The national dialog in Syria continues making progress. Unnoticed by most international mainstream media, and distracted by sustained acts of terrorism, the national dialog in Syria, facilitated by the government, continues with systematic and comprehensive…
Jamal Khan is an Afghan journalist who fled his country because of Taliban persecution and now lives in Germany. We met in the apartment of a mutual friend from the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft, the German Peace…
The third nuclear test of the DPR-Korea has been met with international diplomatic rows. The DPRK is defending its right to develop nuclear weapons in the face of a very real threat from the USA…
The US-announcement not to arm the opposition in Syria does not absolve the USA from its full responsibility for what is taking place in Syria or the practices of the opposition, said Russia´s permanent representative…
Major Agha H. Amin is a retired Pakistani military officer and the author of various books, including ”Development of Taliban Factions in Afghanistan”, ”Taliban War in Afghanistan” and ”History of Pakistan Army”. He studied at…
Imagine the US inviting the Queen of England to a formal state visit. Yet, the monarch wouldn’t be allowed to see Washington; she would be received at the fanciest McDonald’s branch in New York City. This is exactly what happened to President Obama, the first American ruler to visit Myanmar. Between November 17 and 20, 2012, he visited Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. In the latter, he was received at Yangon, the old capital, and not at Naypyidaw, the current one. This wasn’t the only oddity of the visit. American media made a fuzz of President Obama using for the first time the official name of the country, Myanmar.
Until now, the US Government preferred the British imperial name, Burma, which is an awful transliteration of Bamar, the main ethnic group in the country.
The recently reelected President was laughing hard at his lame aide; the latter didn’t know where to hide the report he had just shown. It summarized the online secession petitions from all American states. Texas…