This article was written by Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was going to be published in the academic journal Foreign Affairs, but was withdrawn! Well the article is posted on the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
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“Containing Russia: Back to the Future?”
Servev Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs (Withdrawn)
19 July [...]
Inside Story - Al Jazeera English
26 July 2007
Available at youTube
Part 1:
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Part 2:
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Colombian Free Trade Pact Shot Down
Scoop (New Zealand)
Monday, 23 July 2007
By: Kathleen Dugan and Kevin Easdale
Available at: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00308.htm
Recently, the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives staunchly denounced the previously initialed free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, while postponing (at least for several months) the ratification of a comparable trade measure with Peru and [...]
Africa Seeks to Consolidate Cooperation with Latin America in Combating Aids
2007/07/23
Available at: http://mathaba.net/news/?x=558425
Caracas, Jul 18, ABN- On the reunion of the coordinators of the second Latin America- Africa summit this week in Caracas, Africa made a strong call to Latin America for the cooperation on combating the disease that infests both continents.
Between Brazil and Nigeria [...]
“Why Do They Hate Us”
Washington Post
By Mohsin Hamid
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001806_2.html
LONDON Recently, I found myself in Dallas, a place I’d never been before. As a Muslim writer, I felt about going there pretty much the way an American writer might have felt about heading to the tribal areas of Pakistan: nervous, with [...]
Losing My Jihadism
Washington Post
By Mansour al-Nogaidan
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001808.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
BURAIDAH, Saudi Arabia Islam needs a Reformation. It needs someone with the courage of Martin Luther.
This is the belief I’ve arrived at after a long and painful spiritual journey. It’s not a popular conviction — it has attracted angry criticism, including death threats, from many [...]
ABC on Bibletown, USA: :”Where church and state are one”
Saturday July 21, 2007
Can be found at: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ABC_Bibletown_USA_governs_Church_and_0721.html
Built from scratch to fulfill the lifelong dream of Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, the town of Ave Maria, Florida is being called a “refuge for Christian values in the secular age.” Ave Maria is centered around a [...]
Europe’s Labor Shortage
Wall Street Journal
June 14 2007
Available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118176922956534351.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Americans tempted to clamp down on immigration ought to take a look at Germany. The closed-border policy there leaves businesses unable to fill important jobs and threatens to scupper the country’s economic recovery.
Although 3.8 million Germans are on the dole, the country’s recent growth spurt has left [...]
Dar al Hayat
by Patrick Seale
04/05/07
Available at: http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/contributors/05-2007/Article-20070504-55ffab40-c0a8-10ed-01b2-ede87997fa22/story.html
The failure of the Bush Administration’s Middle East policy is now so catastrophic as to pose a danger to international peace and security. It is high time the United States stepped aside and turned the region’s problems over to local powers.
What can be done? In my view, [...]
Pakistan’s iron fist is to the US’s liking
Asia Times Online
11 July 2007
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Available at: http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IG11Df03.html
KARACHI - A last-minute intervention by [...]