Archive for July, 2009

The Seoul Times: KOSOVO & Systematic Persecution by KLA

July 24, 2009

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=8646
 
 
 
By Lee Jay Walker
 
Tokyo Correspondent
 
The former Yugoslavia was engulfed by many conflicts and ethnic and religious differences tore away at the very fabric of this nation. Like all wars, atrocities took place on all sides but the mass media in general focused on Serbian atrocities, while neglecting brutal crimes committed against the Serbian community. This [...]

Gwynne Dyer: What do Iceland and Blair have in common? No future in EU

July 21, 2009

By Gwynne Dyer
 
NZ Herald, 21 July 2009
 
Tony Blair (or “the Winston Churchill of our times” as he was known in the Bush White House) is not going to be the first president of the European Union. And Iceland isn’t going to join the EU either.
This sort of story only gets traction in the northern summer [...]

To Mitigate Economic Armageddon: Slash the Defense Budget

July 10, 2009

By Ivan Eland, July 10, 2009
The U.S. government is deeper in debt than it has been since just after World War II. When Bill Clinton, who actually reduced the federal deficit as a portion of GDP, left office, the Congressional Budget Office projected an $800 billion dollar yearly budget surplus for the [...]