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U.S. Urges Latin America to Reduce Expenditure on Armaments The United States Assistant Secretary of State to Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela, acknowledged on Wednesday 7th the right of a "sovereign" country to renew their weapons, but demanded that military spending in the region be reduced.
Anatoly Dobrynin: Giant of Soviet Diplomacy Dies at 90 Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin was a Russian statesman whose name always had and has considerable recognition in the west. He was quite the statesman as Soviet Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1962 to 1986, and most notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was appointed by Nikita Khrushchev and served as Soviet Ambassador to the US during the terms of six US Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan.
Urbanization: New Trends and Challenges Today there are around six billion inhabitants of our planet, half of whom live in cities. A third of these live in slums one billion people. The trend is not to diminish, but rather, to increase. Within 40 years, seventy per cent of the world’s population will live in cities and this will imply an exponential rise in challenges involving a huge range of social players.
Pandemics and Panic: A Lethal Mixture Were the world’s medical authorities acting correctly during the Pandemic of influenza A H1N1 Did they know what they were doing Were they in full control of biological reactions to new drugs These are the questions raised after the findings of a Canadian study which indicates that those vaccinated with seasonal flu vaccines were up to 2.4 times more likely to suffer from increased symptoms of the pandemic A H1N1 virus.
They Fought for Our Homeland Going on 65 years since the end of World War II, the Great Patriotic War as the Russians call it, several questions should be asked by historians. One concerns the role of women in the resistance to Nazi occupation of the Soviet homeland. In the West, because of the political manipulations of the culture industry, which publishes and distributes scientific and artistic productions on the War, the Russian effort to halt barbaric Nazi fascism is avoided, the role of women in all sectors of resistance is not even cited.
Washington Plans New Military Bases in Brazil and Peru to Contain Venezuela On the eve of the first visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Venezuela and the completion of agreements to enhance the defense capacity of the Venezuelan government, Washington moves its pieces to recover military domination in the region. While Venezuela is preparing to welcome Vladimir Putin, who will implement several agreements including the delivery of Mi-17 helicopters and the purchase of 92 Russian T-72 tanks and Smerch multiple rocket launchers, the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson "walks the shores of Peru conducting joint exercises with the Peruvian Air Force and Navy." The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson - the third largest in the Pentagon - is accompanied by an attack fleet consisting of several assault ships, destroyers, air components and anti-submarine helicopters.
Exposing Israel for What It Is If the international media has decided that Israel’s illegal policies are a no-go area, then let someone bring the news to the people of the world so that they can judge for themselves. Take for example, Israel’s recent approval of over 3,000 new homes for Israeli settlers in Jerusalem, the destruction of Palestinian property by settlers and an act of terrorism within Gaza.
Kyrgyzstan One Step Away from Civil War The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan has become the latest Republic to reject a colour revolution after President Kurmanbek Bakiev has been forced out of office in a popular uprising against his nepotism, corruption and disastrous social policies which stretched his people to breaking point.
No to NATO! Enters the Political Agenda The murmurs against NATO have been growing into a crescendo in recent years, especially after the lies to Russia, the murderous campaign against Serbia and the free hand given to the drugs growers in Afghanistan where under NATO’s guidance heroin production has increased not by four, but by forty times. Now a worldwide anti-NATO wave has entered the political agenda.
Manuel Marulanda Velez Two Years Later! A Symbol In Force! For the young peasant Pedro Antonio Marin, there were many questions that came to him during those terrible years of the late 40s when the leader Jorge Eli茅cer Gait谩n was murdered and thereafter the state unleashed cruel violence in camps, towns and cities, which forced him, like hundreds of thousands of other peasants, to take refuge in the bush "enmontarse" to save his life.
Giant Lizard Discovered in the Philippines Biologists announced on Wednesday, the spectacular discovery of a new species of giant lizard, a reptile the size of a grown adult man, and endowed with a double penis, in the Philippines. The monitor lizard, a skittish animal, though colorful, is a close cousin of the Komodo Dragon of Indonesia. But unlike the dreaded dragon, he is not carnivorous and does not feed on carrion. Rather it is an entirely peaceful animal eating fruit.
Iraqi Government To Exterminate Saddam Hussein's All Relatives Interpol issued the arrest warrant for Raghad Hussein, the elder daughter of late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The story with attempts to capture Raghad Hussein continues for several years. When the USA and its allies occupied Iraq in 2003, Raghad and her family escaped to Jordan. The new Iraqi authorities exterminated many of Saddam Hussein’s relatives afterwards, so the woman was lucky to stay alive
Bigfoot's Descendants Live Among Humans for Over 100 Years 35 year ago, the scull of the first Big-foot was excavated for the first time in history. People residing in the area for years still remember meeting it when it was still alive. Local residents who buried a mother and a son indicated location of their graves. A rubber shoe branded 1888 was removed from the woman’s burial a mirror at the head indicated it was a female. Approximately the same time Zana, a Bigfoot, died
Kasparov: From the Sublime To the Ridiculous Whenever an international news outlet allows Gary Kasparov space to air his views, it is a sign this same outlet has been “had” big time by a self-promoting bigot whose only objective in life is to publicise himself, whether through flights of fantasy, or the first stages of Alzheimer’s or else sheer and unadulterated egomania. The victims are the fools who give him time and space.
Russian Fighter Jets Up For Grabs In March, Russia's defense export giant Rosoboronexport signed a supply contract for 16 Su-30MKI爓ith Algeria. The estimated value of this deal may reach approximately $1 billion. Additionally, a contract for the delivery of six Su-30MK2 to Uganda was signed in March. The amount of the transaction may not be very high - up to $200 million
India: Women in Power India is about to become the first country in the world where women will be guaranteed by law a third of the seats in all legislative bodies in the country. The project ley managed to win a first hurdle in early March, to obtain the approval of the Senate Rajya Sabha and, although it still must be approved by the Lok Sabha, or lower house, its supporters are already singing victory.
Where is This Story 4.7 Million at Risk of Starvation Four point seven million people are at risk of starvation in Northern Africa due to a harvest failure caused by scarce rainfall in 2009, yet the story, as well as the funds, are nowhere to be seen in an international media worried about Tiger Woods’ personal life.
Raul Castro: Cuba Does Not Fear Lies, Does Not Kneel Down Before Pressures Cuban President Raul Castro said that Cuba prefers to "disappear" rather than to accept "blackmail" from the United States and Europe to "manipulations" regarding the observance of human rights on the island. The statement was made during the closing ceremony of the Ninth Congress of the Union of Young Communists in Havana on Sunday 04.
Columbia: Army Attacks Indians Brigade 17 of the Army and the Colombian Air Force bombed the Indian community of Alto Guayabal Urad Jiguamiand贸 the Reservation, on the border between Antioquia and Choc贸, on January 30, 2010 at 3:30. Several Indians were left gravely wounded as a result of this attack and the death of a newborn Indian baby resulted. The clear intention of the bombing is to displace the indigenous and black, to make way for the Northern Mand茅 mining project. One of the most devastating and arbitrary plans, the predators move in the jungles of Choc贸. It is located between Carmen del Dari茅n, Choc贸, and Murind贸, Antioquia.
Mexican Struggle Against the Blockade on Cuba The Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba coordinates actions to be developed in 2010 to demand an end to the blockade imposed by the U.S. government to that Caribbean nation. The national meeting is in the fifteenth stage of discussions with the participation of hundreds of delegates from territories such as Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Michoacan, Baja California del Sur, Puebla, Estado de Mexico, Chiapas, Jalisco, Nayarit, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi and Federal District.
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