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(The Island) The Nation/ANN Thailand’s Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij and Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva are being investigated for abusing their position when they used their government office to send out short messages, or SMS, via mobile phone service last year. In his and the prime minister’s defence, Korn said [...] (Daily News – by Chamari Senanayake) In December 2006, Defence Ministry UK announced that the contract for the ‘Taranis’ unmanned air vehicle demonstrator program had been awarded to a team led by the Defence firm BAE Systems. Named after the Celtic god of thunder Taranis, it was to explore and [...] “I have walked the long walk of freedom. I have tried no to falter, I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret to that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a [...] (The Island) by Kwan Weng Kin The Straits Times/ANN What a fine mess the Japanese have got themselves into. For the past 10 months or so, the ruling coalition led by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had dominated both Houses of Parliament, allowing the government to enact laws almost [...] (Daily Mirror – by Ameen Izzadeen) There’s more to it than what meets the eye. Nowhere can the phrase be more apt than in politics where honesty is a rarity. The meaning of the phrase becomes more sinister in the intrigue-ridden international politics involving big powers. The appearance of an Iranian scientist at [...] (The Island) The recent bomb blasts in Uganda which claimed the lives of more than 68 World Cup soccer fans, not surprisingly, were, for some Western commentators, ‘a sobering reminder of the need to fight the ideologies of radical Islam, wherever they occur’. That is, current world-wide [...] OBAMA PUTS PETRAEUS IN THE ‘AFGHAN’ HOT SEAT . . . Possible 2012 presidential challenger ‘neutered’?(Sunday Island – by Selvam Canagaratna) “If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed.” – Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (1934) Pressing the ‘rewind’ button on that somewhat rusty but never-quite-obsolescent ‘memory-corder’ [now thankfully turbo-charged by the internet] [...] (Daily Mirror – by Ameen Izzadeen) The Palestinian peace process is back on track. That’s what a ‘nailed’ US President Barack Obama wants the rest of the world concerned with peace in the troubled region to believe after his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Following the talks, Obama addressed the media [...] (The Island) ‘From moon landings to promoting self-esteem.’ This is US President Barack Obama’s latest brief to the US’ National Aeronautical and Space Agency. The latter is from now on expected to reach out to the Muslim world and engage with it with the aim of ‘making it feel [...] (The Island) A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth. If all goes as planned, the $500 million Space-Based Space [...] (Daily Mirror – by Ameen Izzadeen) The US intelligence agencies have come of age, it seems. After years of humiliation, shame and failures, they have struck gold. They have arrested ten people for allegedly spying for Russia. Another person was arrested in Cyprus and released on bail. However, he has gone missing [...] (The Island - By Lynn Ockersz) We would need to use the term ‘development’ very advisedly when focusing on issues pertaining to the world economy because of the lingering ambiguities about what development really means. The recent mass protests that greeted the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Toronto proved that [...] (Daily News – by Phillip Fernando) US President Barack Obama meted out swift punishment to US General Stanley McChrystal who was found chronically insubordinate and meddling in civilian affairs. Strangely, US State Department failed to level with the Sri Lankan President upholding the same cherished democratic traditions when facing the allegedly [...] (Daily News – by Fidel Castro Ruz) Those who determine every step of the worst enemy of humanity – United States imperialism, a mixture of ignoble material interests, disdain and underestimation for other people inhabiting the planet – have calculated everything with mathematical precision. In the Reflection of June 16 I wrote: [...] |
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