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Liban : Les défis du nouveau Président
By Alain-Michel Ayache on May 29, 2008
118 votes pour contre 9 abstentions. C’est le total de voix que le Commandant en chef de l’armée libanaise, le général Michel Suleiman eut pour devenir le douzième Président de la République libanaise depuis l’indépendance...
Merely children
By David Solway on May 15, 2008
Contemporary academics and intellectuals (or anti-intellectuals), by and large, strike me as the Mr. Beans of the vaudeville clerisy, epitomes of conceptual ineptitude. But they seem no less retarded than their immediate precursors, re-cycling the ineffable Bertrand Russell who in a 1937 speech declared that “Britain should disarm, and if Hitler marched his troops into this country when we were undefended, they should be welcomed like tourists and greeted in a friendly way.”..
Silo Souvenirs
By Robert J. Galbraith on May 15, 2008
The Kremlin has announced that Russia is threatening to suspend its participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, along with refusing to implement the strategic arms reduction talks (Start 11). These decisions are in response to U.S. plans for the proposed installment of an anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe, which President Bush says will deter long-range missiles being launched from the Middle East and Asia, with Iran being the main threat...
A Canadian profile in courage
By Robert J. Galbraith on May 1, 2008
While most Canadians are sitting back at their breakfast tables, drinking their morning coffee and kissing their children on the cheek as they head off to school, others are living in a far off corner of the planet, sacrificing their security and time with their families—to build a better world...
Beyond the Veil
By Rouba al-Fattal on May 1, 2008
Long Live the Great Satan!
By Andrei Piontkovsky on May 1, 2008
The revolutions in the Middle East and in the Muslim world generally, are well underway. But they are not quite the democratic ones that George Bush and Condolezza Rice have been hoping for. Tyrants and corrupt leaders are indeed trembling. Replacing them are young and not so young men with blazing eyes, Kalashnikov machine-guns and Shahid ammunition belts. Hamas in Palestine, Shiite clerics in Iraq, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and a deranged President in Iran...
Tout dire
By Marc Lebuis on May 1, 2008
Le saviez-vous? Le Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU (CDH) vient de limiter le principe de la liberté d’expression au nom de la protection du « droit » des religions...
The Weather in China
By Tim Mak on May 1, 2008
Having just returned from a visit to China, I could regale you with anecdotes about my antics abroad. Alternatively, I could unload a bit of my more politically oriented reflections. With the eyes of the world on China, the Olympics, and Tibet, my preference is for the latter. Over the course of my trip, I visited the cities of Hong Kong and Beijing. Since they speak different languages and pursue almost entirely different policies, one might be forgiven for wondering if they belong to the same country at all...
Jimmy Carter ou le dindon de la farce syrienne
By Alain-Michel Ayache on May 1, 2008
Pour un coup médiatique, c’en est un! C’est en ces quelques mots, que la déclaration de l’ancien Président américain, Jimmy Carter, peut être résumée après sa visite à Damas. En réalité, à regarder de très près, un observateur initié au « machiavélisme » de la famille Assad peut déceler une stratégie damascène des plus brillantes pour retrouver une place de choix sur l’échiquier politique régional et s’asseoir de nouveau sur la table de négociation avec les grands...
