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Zimbabwe's Mugabe Says Cholera Crisis Over

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12.11.08 posted by jason 0 views no comments
What Cholera outbreak. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe suggested today that the Cholera crisis was over. In fact, it is far from over. If ever there was a time for more international action against Mugabe's regime it is now. See this NYT article and judge for yourself
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06.11.08 posted by jason 73 views no comments
China has declared victory over the massive lake that formed following the earthquake. This lake, which threatened to flood over a million Chinese has been drained by government engineers. "More than half of the 250-million-cubic-meter volume has been discharged and the number of people under threat had dropped from 1.3 million to less than 50,000," a Communist official told the media.
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Mugabe pulls out of key meeting on election crisis

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04.11.08 posted by chab13 131 views no comments
Prospects of resolving Zimbabwe's two-week-old election crisis appeared dim Friday after a government spokesman said President Robert Mugabe would not attend a key weekend meeting with other regional leaders.
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Blogflict: Free Media in Russia Takes a Beating Putin Style

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04.18.08 posted by jason 121 views no comments
A Russian newspaper has been shut down after reporting President Putin had a secret divorce so he could marry a 24-year-old gymnast. Only in Russia where Putin rules with absolute power could this happen. This is not how a free media is supposed to operate in a democracy. Clearly, he remains very much a man in charge, even as his final term is set to expire.
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Pakistan to Reinstate Judges Deposed Under Musharraf

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05.02.08 posted by jason 106 views no comments
They're back...Pakistan's coalition government has agreed to reinstate the country's chief justice and 60 other judges deposed last year under a controversial order by President Pervez Musharraf, a move that could threaten Musharraf's tenuous grip on political power.
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UN to Set Up Task Force to Tackle Global Food Crisis

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04.29.08 posted by jason 111 views no comments
The United Nations plans to establish a task force to tackle the global food crisis to avert "social unrest on an unprecedented scale," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced. Ban, who will lead the task force, said its first priority will be to meet the $755 million shortfall in funding for the World Food Program. The skyrocketing cost of food staples has triggered global protests.
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Cheney Says Goal of Palestinian State 'Long Overdue'

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03.23.08 posted by jason 149 views no comments
President Bush has called for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to reach a framework for peace by the time he leaves office in January 2009. On Sunday, Cheney said the United States would continue to work toward the "long overdue" goal of creating a Palestinian state.
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US Troop Deaths in Iraq and Troop Levels: A Look at the Numbers

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04.09.08 posted by jason 131 views no comments
As the debate continues in Congress as to the success (or lack of success) of the 'surge,' it is helpful to view the historical data on troop deaths and troop levels since the start of the war. The chart shows troop deaths declined after the surge, but recently have increased. Even the US commanders on the ground now call the progress 'fragile' and 'reversible.'

China Calls Nancy Pelosi "Habitually Bad Tempered"

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03.23.08 posted by jason 148 views no comments
China is looking to crackdown on both the protesters in Tibet and also the critics of its actions. Today it took a shot at US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her criticism of China and for meeting with the Dalai Lama in India. The crackdown has been a public relations disaster for China ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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Bin Laden Threatens Europe Over Muhammad Cartoons

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03.20.08 posted by jason 149 views no comments
In a new audiotape released Wednesday, Osama bin Laden warned Europeans that they will face a "severe reckoning" for repeatedly publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in newspapers and magazines. The five-minute speech was the second time in four months that bin Laden has delivered threats to European countries.
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Missile Parts Sent to Taiwan in Error

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03.25.08 posted by jason 142 views no comments
Oops - Instead of sending helicopter batteries, the United States shipped four electrical fuses for Minuteman nuclear missile warheads to Taiwan, a mistake that was discovered only last week - a year and a half after the erroneous shipment, Pentagon officials disclosed on Tuesday.
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