Aιτήματα και Προβλήματα στην Βόρειο Ήπειρο

Κωνσταντίνος Χολέβας , Πολιτικός Επιστήμων
31η Αυγούστου 2008
 
 
Λόγω Σκοπιανού, Κυπριακού και παραλόγων τουρκικών απαιτήσεων το θέμα της Βορείου Ηπείρου έχει περάσει σε δεύτερη μοίρα όσον αφορά την επίσημη ελληνική πολιτική και το ενδιαφέρον της κοινής γνώμης. Όμως θα έπρεπε να ασχολούμαστε περισσότερο με την τύχη και τα προβλήματα των ομοεθνών μας που κατοικούν στο Νότο της [...]

World defence update

F-35C passes fuselage construction milestone
 
Northrop Grumman has completed the centre-fuselage section of the first F-35C carrier variant of the Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the company announced on 19 August. The F-35C, which is being developed for the US Navy (USN), is scheduled to begin flight testing in 2009 and should achieve its initial [...]

Revenge of the Balkans

By Gordon N. Bardos -National Interest-
 
Gordon N. Bardos is assistant director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
 
 
The National Interest is published by The Nixon Center
 
08.28.2008
 
 
Strategic shortsightedness—defined as mistaking problems and issues of secondary or tertiary importance for those of vital importance, and being unable to foresee the predictable [...]

Assyrian Bishops Call for Assyrian Autonomy in Iraq

 
Assyrian International News Agency
 
http://www.aina.org/
 
Stockholm (AINA) — Ablahad Gallo Shabo is the latest bishop from the Syriac Orthodox Church to call for local self governance for the Assyrians in northern Iraq’s Nineveh plain. The prelate expressed his call for local self governance during an interview with Ishtar TV, which broadcasts from northern Iraq.
Ablahad Gallo Shabo, who [...]

Η «αχίλλειος πτέρνα» του ΝΑΤΟ…

Του Χρύσανθου Λαζαρίδη, αντιπροέδρου του ΔΣ/Δ21
 
29η Αυγούστου 2008
Κάποιοι, με αφορμή την κρίση στον Καύκασο, προβλέπουν «επιστροφή στον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο». Κάτι τέτοιο, όμως, παρά την κλιμάκωση που υπάρχει σήμερα και τις δηλητηριώδεις δηλώσεις που ανταλλάσσονται εκατέρωθεν, είναι απίθανο να συμβεί. Και να γιατί:
H Ρωσία διαθέτει, αυτή τη στιγμή, ένα πολύ δυνατό «ατού»: Την εξάρτηση των ΝΑΤΟϊκών [...]

Georgia and Kosovo: A Single Intertwined Crisis

August 25, 2008
 
Analysis by STRATFOR
www.stratfor.com
 
By George Friedman
 
 
The Russo-Georgian war was rooted in broad geopolitical processes. In large part it was simply the result of the cyclical reassertion of Russian power. The Russian empire — czarist and Soviet — expanded to its borders in the 17th and 19th centuries. It collapsed in 1992. The Western powers [...]

World militaary update

Iranian two-stage SLV passes test launch
Iran has test fired a satellite launch vehicle (SLV) that could pave the way for the eventual firing of a ballistic missile with a range of up to 5,000 km. Iranian state media broadcast images of a 16 August firing of the Safir SLV from the Semnan space-research centre about [...]

Caucasus: If Russia Acted Differently and Future Possibilities

Thursday, August 21, 2008 – http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/71911
 
By Michael Averko
 
 
A series of destabilizing responses were likely if Russia did not counterattack against the August 7 Georgian government strike into South Ossetia. Russia would have probably faced a significantly greater refugee crisis from what occurred. Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili might have had greater inclination to attack Abkhazia. Many [...]

Challenging the Mainstream Media on the Russia-Georgia War

Dissident Voice / August 19th, 2008
by Gary Leupp
The mainstream media (MSM) spin on the recent events in Georgia runs something like this. Georgia’s young leader Mikheil Saakashvili, the Columbia Law School graduate who came to power after the heroic “Rose Revolution” in 2003, is a great friend of America (providing the third largest detachment of [...]

Bosnia: Muslims dominate capital, claims Croatian MP

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.2396935759 Sarajevo, 6 August (AKI) – The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, once a symbol of ethnic diversity, has become an entirely Muslim city, a Croat deputy in the Bosnian Parliament, Branko Zrno, said on Wednesday. “Sarajevo definitely isn’t a multi-ethnic city, but the city of one group, the Bosniacs (Muslims), ” Zrno told local media. [...]