5.januar 2009
Od jutra je na jug Izraela padlo 28 Hamasovih raket. 9 ljudi je ranjenih. Operacije v Gazi se medtem nadaljujejo. ------------------------------------ -
3.januar 2009
Po poročanju The Timesa je kopenski vdor v Gazo le še vprašanje ur. Tujci so jo že zapustili, letalstvo pa nima več ciljev za bombardiranje. Število mrtvih Palestincev se je povzpelo na 430. ZN so potrdili, da je vsaj četrtina civilistov. ---------------------------------- ---
31.december 2008
Pogajanja med Gazpromom in Ukrajino so propadla. Od polnoči bo Gazprom prenehal dobavljati plin. Če bo Ukrajina zaradi tega začela porabljati plin namenjen naprej v Evropo, bo to zadeve še zapletlo.
Novo leto, nova plinska vojna. ------------------------------------------
29.december 2008
Včeraj je umrl Samuel Huntington, ki je bil zaradi svojega Trka civilizacij močno kritiziran. Toda, mar nam svet vsak dan ne dokazuje, kako prav je vendar imel? Po hladni vojni je prišel spopad na osnovi vrednot in kulture. Huntington je dočakal 81 let. -------------------------------------------
27.december 2008
Izraelci so izvedli brutalne napade na policijske postaje v Gazi. Pri tem je bilo ubitih okoli 150 ljudi. Ti napadi so v zameno za palestinske napade, v katerih je ubitih neprimerno manj ljudi. Cirkus nasilja se nadaljuje, samo da nikomur ni nič smešno. Medtem ljudje v Gazi še naprej trpijo pomanjkanje, ko so zaprti v ogromno koncentracijsko taborišče. Sankcij proti državi Izrael ni pričakovati.

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Too Complicated For Our Beautiful Minds There are so many words written about the "root causes" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, you might think the underlying issue is difficult to understand. But you'd be wrong. For all the mythology that interested parties want to wrap this conflict in, it's really not difficult at all to understand the confrontation that has been going on in Palestine for more than a century now. All you have to do is try to imagine that what happened to Palestine happened instead here in the U.S. Then ask yourself, “What would Americans do in this position?”. And at that point, you find it miraculously stops being difficult to understand. ------------------------------------------
Green Zone Handed Off With Little Fanfare
The handover of the Green Zone from U.S. to Iraqi control Thursday presented such a powerful symbol of the waning American presence in Iraq that it would have been nearly impossible for both sides not to mark it with a formal ceremony. They did, but the ceremony wasn't much. A podium was set up in the middle of a dirty street. Five small balloons and some tinsel decorated a seating area. The American ambassador and the top commander of U.S. troops didn't show up. Neither did Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. --------------------------------------
As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov't takes hold
Two months ago, Mohammad Anwar recalls, the Taliban paraded accused thieves through his village, tarred their faces with oil and threw them in jail. The public punishment was a clear sign to villagers that the Taliban are now in charge. And the province they took over lies just 30 miles from the Afghan capital of Kabul, right on the main highway. --------------------------------------
A New New Deal?
When Richard Nixon announced that we are all Keynesians now, stagflation was confounding liberal economists, and conservatives were about to take over the commanding heights. Similarly, when Bill Clinton announced that "the era of big government is over," economic conservatism was about to take us off the cliff. Now "the era of big government is over" is over.