Craig - Instablogs
Jun 29 2009
In recent days, the world has seen simple folk in Iran risking their lives in order to gain freedom. They are standing there unarmed, only equipped with their righteousness, in the face of snipers firing into the masses. The world saw Neda, a...
Jun 27 2009
Those are fighting words, putting us on a par with Afghanistan and Iraq, but they give you a sense of what the rest of the world thinks of the political disrealities Obama has just begun to dislodge. Chief among them - along with legalized abortion - is...
Jun 24 2009
Once it would have been Cold War rhetoric and “fraternal greetings” to Marxist guerrillas. Yesterday Russia returned to Africa in a scramble to restore its Soviet-era influence — only this time with profits and natural resources in...
Jun 23 2009
At least six people died and 70 were injured, some seriously, in a train crash in the Washington DC metro last night. The accident happened when two trains, both moving in the same direction, collided. One of the trains had stopped, waiting for another...
Jun 17 2009
The edict, issued from the highest level of China’s government, comes less than six months after China described the short-lived ‘Buy American’ clauses in the US stimulus package as “protectionist poison” that would undermine the world...
Jun 16 2009
Barack Obama’s foreign policy honeymoon may be petering out as events around the globe, whether in Israel, Iran or North Korea, conspire to expose some inconvenient realities about his vaunted olive-branch approach to international relations. A...
Jun 11 2009
The imminent recovery of the American economy appeared less than certain yesterday after the latest results from the US Federal Reserve’s survey of regional economic performance. In spite of signs in recent weeks that the US economy could be...
Jun 9 2009
The case, in which the company was accused of backing a campaign of repression conducted by Nigeria’s former military government in the oil-rich Niger Delta region in the 1990s was due to go to trial in a New York court. Mr Saro-Wiwa led a...
Jun 8 2009
THE economic crisis is sweeping away men’s jobs at a faster rate than those of women in America, heralding the onset of a so-called “mancession”. New unemployment figures have revealed the biggest gap in jobless rates between men and women for...
Jun 6 2009
Venezuela’s recent purchase of the most lethal shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles in the Russian arsenal is sharpening U.S. concerns that parts of President Hugo Chávez’s massive weapons buildup could wind up in the hands of terrorists...