Hurricane Lessons

Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the botched reaction to is became one of the darkest moments of Bush administration in 2005. So today Republicans are not going to make the same mistake. McCain could not risk a single television image or photo of a delegate enjoying himself or herself, festooned in buttons [...]

Israel Received the Body.

After a long national debate, the Israeli cabinet voted to trade a Lebanese murderer for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. The Israeli army has confirmed that human remains handed over by Lebanon’s Hezbollah as part of a prisoner swap are those of two of its soldiers, BBC reports.
The two men, Eldad Regev and [...]

President Nicolas Sarkozy in Israel.

The official 3 days visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Israel is continuing. Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy have received a really warm welcome in Tel Aviv after years of frosty ties between two countries.

France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy (C), his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (L) and Israel’s President Shimon Peres attend [...]

Why?

Why do powerful men like Eliot Spitzer cheat on their families? Really why? Just before Monday, Eliot Spitzer was a rising star in the Democratic Party — his squeaky-clean image as a corruption buster led to his being mentioned as a potential vice-presidential candidate and possibly even a future White House contender. Now [...]

For Whom the Bell Tolls in Kosovo?

For whom? For me, for you irrespective of your nationality, religion or where do you live, the world became too small. Bell tolls for each of us because the matter does not rest there I guess. This is occurring right now next by you, in the heart of [...]

Welcome to the Hell.

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that aggressive interrogation could be appropriate to learn where a bomb was hidden shortly before it was set to explode or to discover the plans or whereabouts of a terrorist group.
“It seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to [...]

Election in Kenya.

The Head of Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) said on Sunday that President Mwai Kibaki has beaten opposition leader Raila Odinga by a narrow margin to win re-election in Kenya’s closest ever vote.
The Republic of Kenya is a country in Eastern Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Tanzania [...]

Benazir Bhutto has been Killed in Blast.

Former Pakistani prime minister and Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been killed today in a suicide attack, two months after she returned from eight years of exile to attempt a political comeback. Bhutto was shot at close range as she was leaving the rally in this garrison city south of Islamabad, aides said. Immediately [...]

Russian election. The vote was free and fair?

The vote affirmed the main idea - that Vladimir Putin is the national leader and one can nothing to do with that.  The fact is Russian people trust and support Putin and they have showed that with absolute majority and high citizen activities. Mr Putin described the election as a “good example of domestic political [...]

Hugo Chavez.

It seems that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez can’t stay out of scandal. Every time he says or does something that deviate from the normal political relationship. Now he says that he had “nothing to hide” in an ongoing scandal over how $800,000 in undeclared cash ended up in a plane with Venezuelan officials headed toward [...]